This track, which sounds somewhat like a fanciful avian dawn chorus, is comprised of isolated recordings of all 53 bird species featured on the album, such as the forty-spotted pardalote, which is ...

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: "Songs Of Disappearance" - it's an entire album of calls from endangered Australian birds. Last month, it briefly perched at No. 3 on the country's top 50 albums chart.

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“ Songs of Disappearance,” featuring the tweets and warbles of 53 threatened Australian bird species, is now the No. 3 album, shooting past Taylor Swift, ABBA, and yes, even Mariah Carey.

[ Bird singing ] And there are some songs that it's impossible for me to imagine life without. But this avian choir does not sing for us. What we hear is not what the bird hears.

Wondering where your votes wound up after the Hottest 100 of Australian Songs? You'll find what you're looking for in the ...

Many birds respond to playback of a typical song of their species as if a territorial intrusion were occurring—they approach the speaker from which the song is playing, fly around the sound’s ...