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03-28-2014, 01:29 AM
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If you are an ornithologist or entomologist, nature sound effects in film and games really fuck up the experience. Whether it's on Earth, and you notice that the birds and crickets are always on the wrong continent, or it's sci-fi, and you wonder why the birds and crickets on the alien planet are all from Earth.

Knowing this in advance, I've resisted learning them. But even I've noticed that in film, EVERY bird of prey sounds like a red-tailed hawk. Even the supposedly essential bald eagle which, in reality, sounds very similar to a herring gull.
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