{"product_id":"bird-life-a-rakiura-soundscape","title":"Pure Rakiura Soundscapes — Fixed Wings, Birds of the Community","description":"\u003ch2\u003ePure Rakiura Soundscapes — Fixed Wings, Birds of the Community\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e1 hour 20 minutes. MP3 download.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA soundtrack for bird lovers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are places on this earth that still sound the way the world was meant to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRakiura — Stewart Island, New Zealand — is one of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis recording was made deep in the forest of Halfmoon Bay — the heart of the community on one of the most remote inhabited islands on earth. Recorded on private land at the EASTERLY hub, where a garage overlooking Halfmoon Bay, the ocean, and the wharf became an art gallery, and the bush begins just metres from the door.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA damp winter’s day. Mist in the trees. Soft rain on the leaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt sounds like a jungle. It is a jungle. Just a very cold, very remote, very New Zealand one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese are not distant wilderness birds. These are the birds of the community — the ones who share this village with the people who call Rakiura home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTūī bathe in the spouting, shaking the water from their feathers. They flutter through the native trees drinking nectar, then dart to the walls of the houses — picking off spiders and bugs with quiet precision. They are not afraid. They have always lived here. They always will.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the forest, the land birds call. From the bay, the oystercatchers \/ Tōrea answer — bold, piercing, unmistakable, calling from the shore in numbers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThose are just the ones we’ll name. The rest are waiting for you — layered into the recording, hidden in the canopy, calling from places you’ll have to find for yourself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow many species can you count?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe birds are not alarmed. Not rushing. They are enjoying the mist, preening themselves, completely at home in the only world they have ever known.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the distance, the island’s fixed-wing comes in to land — and takes off again. The birds don’t notice. It’s part of their lives too. Another flying friend up there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is not a sterile nature recording. This is a moment in time in a living, breathing village at the bottom of the world. Every sound belongs here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 hour 20 minutes. Unedited. Unfiltered. Exactly as it was.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou will not find this sound anywhere else. It cannot be recreated. It was captured once, on one winter’s morning, in one of the last truly wild places left.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd now it’s yours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDownload it tonight. Play it when the world gets too loud. Let it take you somewhere that most people will never go.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClose your eyes. You’re already there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat you’ll receive:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1 hour 20 minute MP3 digital download — yours instantly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecorded on private land — Halfmoon Bay, Rakiura \/ Stewart Island, New Zealand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnedited. Unfiltered. Unrepeatable.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor sleep. For focus. For the moments when you need to remember that somewhere out there, the world is still wild and beautiful and whole.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e🌿 \u003cem\u003eIsland steady. World ready.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"EASTERLY","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46710669475894,"sku":null,"price":27.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/7358\/2134\/files\/IMG_6976.jpg?v=1782690833","url":"https:\/\/www.easterly.kiwi\/products\/bird-life-a-rakiura-soundscape","provider":"EASTERLY","version":"1.0","type":"link"}