The Nightjar Project: Sound Scrapes (Sound 2)
Sound Scrapes is part of a project that takes evocative recordings of Ghanaian life and transposes them into related environments here in the New Forest. The Nightjar Project uses the bird’s migration to represent the fluid movement of people, histories, cultures and ideas between the UK and Ghana.
Buipe Frogs
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Kwame tells us about Buipe at night and looking for frogs
“In Buipe, (Bu-pe) we live by the black river, it is a town right in the middle of Ghana which the main road, the Trans-Saharan Highway, passes through all the way from Burkina Faso and Mali to the coast of Ghana, to Accra, the capital. Picture all the countries above without seaports, everything goes through here, imagine how busy that road is.
The time here is the rainy season, and you can hear the sound of a frog. It got me up out of my room and I went looking for that frog. As soon as one starts to come out and sing the rest respond. But one little noise and it is all silent.”
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An Interesting Fact About Nightjars
A nightjar's call is often described as a repetitive "churring" sound, similar to a mechanical whirring or a clockwork toy unwinding, with a slightly rising and falling pitch, often accompanied by wing flapping, making it sound eerie and difficult to pinpoint the exact location of the bird; different species of nightjars may have variations on this call, including croaking, chuckling, or knocking sounds depending on the species.
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