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Urban bird varieties heard from my apartment

September 1, 2016September 4, 2016 | Ashley Kalagian Blunt
Lorikeets
Orange-handled table saw
Speckled garbage truck
Fork-tailed operatic hobo
High-pitched taxi brakes
Great eastern jackhammer
Lesser eastern jackhammer
European bus engine
Common chainsaw
Native cement grinder
Crested shriek-tit neighbour

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Caught a slice of sunrise with this feathered noise machine
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