May 1, 2004
Birdsong ringtones
The UK Independent has a wonderful article about an event called "The International Dawn Chorus Day", where bridwatchers from all over the world gather at dawn to hear a bird call symphony.
According to Neil Wyatt, chief executive of the Wildlife Trust for Birmingham & the Black Country, which co-ordinates the symphony, the interest in birdsong is growing and apparently, bird ringtones are also popular; "the yellowhammer, wood warbler and lapwing are among many that can be downloaded".
So for all of the birdwatchers who read Ringtonia, here's where to go online to download your favorite birdcalls:
-- Mobile Avenue because with Birdlife, they have produced the largest selection of high-quality ring tones for (Nokia) handsets. The tones cover a number of European and African species and some more specialised bird calls.
-- Or, in a reverse fashion, you could also purchase a CD from artists Thomson & Craighead's and "Teach a bird to sing a mobile ringtone".
This idea has got to come from one of the most off-the-wall ringtone stories that circulated in May 2001, about a Danish man who claimed the sparrows in his garden were chirping the Nokia classic tone.
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