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One of my favorite YouTube videos is an audio recording of an extinct bird: https://youtu.be/nDRY0CmcYNU

Some shmuck sampled it in a piano composition and now is apparently getting royalties from the video. It really leaves a bad taste in your mouth.



I can't get your link to work, but which bird?


The Kauaʻi ʻōʻō, native to Hawaii. It's the last known recording of it's song.


Thought it might have been, it sounds quite similar to some of our (NZ) birds - bellbirds,tui, kōkako.

I didn't realise how recently it went extinct though, that's really sad.

You might be interested in attempts to recreate calls of our extinct birds: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audi...




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