BIRDS

Educational sound installation
by Damiano Picci, Zohra Mrad & Soraya Meftah - KT Promotion

Birds is an outdoor sound installation made for the LUGA.
This educational experience highlights the songs of common birds in Luxembourg. It invites visitors to discover, recognize, and reconnect with the sounds of the increasingly rare wildlife around us.

For this project, we gathered information from different platforms, the main ones are :
Natur&ëmwelt, THE a.s.b.l based in Luxembourg to watch out,
E-Bird, data collection lab based in the US.

Fun thing to do whenever wherever you are ↓
Use the app "MERLIN ID" of the Cornell Lab to recognize birds around you. It works with photos, sound recordings and just plain description of the bird if you saw it but weren't fast enough !

Blackbird

Eurasian Blackbird - Turdus merula
Has a glossy black overall with bright yellow bill and eyering.

Can be found in wooded habitats, parks, gardens, and farmland with hedges; often feeds in fields and on lawns. Rich caroling song often heard in urban and suburban neighborhoods with trees and hedges.

You can also find it sampled in a Beatles song
(we let you guess which one ;))

Robin

European Robin - Erithacus rubecula
Distinctive and charismatic little bird with a bright orangey face and breast.

Found in a wide range of wooded habitats, including forests, gardens, hedges in farmland...
High-pitched song is highly variable, and incorporates a range of warbles and trills.
Calls include a dry “tic”, often given in bursts, as well as a thin, high-pitched, descending alarm call.

Jackdaw

Eurasian Jackdaw - Coloeus monedula
Distinctive, small social crow with contrasting, silvery-gray neck shawl and staring whitish eyes.

Walks confidently and its flocks can number in the hundreds or thousands in the nonbreeding season.

Inhabits open and semiopen habitats, from towns and wooded parkland to farmland and sea cliffs; often around stone buildings and chimneys. Nests in cavities. - You can be sure to see more than one in Bouneweg.

Listen for its distinctive high-pitched “tchaw, tchaw” calls.

House Sparrow

House Sparrow - Passer domesticus
Males have smart black bibs, bright rufous napes, and stunningly patterned wings with brilliant buffs and browns. Underparts are pale pearly-gray. Females are plain brown with cute face and lighter eyebrow.

Widespread and abundant in cities, neighborhoods and farms. Avoids dense woods. Flocks cluster in dense bushes, bustling around and chattering to one another.

You'll feel like snow white next to them
They are disney verified

Tit

Great Tit - Parus major
Plumage is distinctive, with white cheeks surrounded by a black cap and bib. Underparts are bright yellow throughout much of range.

Conspicuous inhabitant of woods, forests, parks, gardens, and hedges in farmland. Often visits bird feeders and uses nest boxes.

Listen for its distinctive high-pitched up-and-down song: “tsee-dee-tsee-dee-tsee-dee” and chattering scolds.

( Appreciably larger and more boldly patterned than Eurasian Blue Tit, which often occurs alongside it. )

Magpie

Eurasian Magpie - Pica pica
Boldly pied plumage is distinctive, with white belly, white back, and white wing patches. Wings show blue-green gloss in good light.

Found in open and semiopen areas from farmland and open woodland to towns and gardens, singly or more often in pairs or groups.

Common and conspicuous, this flashy, long-tailed crow relative is unmistakable, and its loud chattering calls are a familiar sound in many areas.

Pigeon

Common Wood-Pigeon - Columba palumbus
Distinctive, large bulky gray pigeon with a pale neck patch. Neck patch is large and white throughout majority of range. Bold white wing band striking in flight; tail broadly tipped black.

Inhabits wooded and semiopen habitats, including towns and gardens. Forms flocks, especially in winter. Often rather unaware, and frequently crashes noisily and clumsily out of hedges and bushes. Display flight consists of a flap-flap-flap climb followed by a descending glide.

Gives a low, throaty series of coos: “hrrruu-hoo-who-who.”


You can find them at the Gare eating someone's sandwich

Goldcrest

Goldcrest - Regulus regulus
Tiny bird, smaller than warblers, with a distinctive combination of black-edged golden crown stripe, big dark eye giving impression of "innocent" face,and white wingbar offset by black wing patch.

Resides in coniferous and mixed woodland, forest, plantations, and gardens with conifers; migrants show up in hedgerows and areas without conifers. In autumn and winter, often travels with foraging flocks of tits and other small woodland birds.

High-pitched jingling song has a distinctly up-and-down quality; calls are likewise thin and high-pitched.


---- The Goldcrest was also chosen as the symbol of Luxembourg !

Crow

Carrion Crow - Corvus corone


Common in varied open and semi-open habitats from towns and farmland to open woodland and moorland. Found in pairs or small groups; large flocks only at roosts.

Typically gives raucous caws.

The quintessential big black crow, without obvious field marks.

A special thank you to those who helped us along the road :
Priyanka from Velvet Flare +  PRO MUSIK sarl

As well as Louis-Jean Teiltelbaum and Catherine Guesde whithout whom this bird obsession would have started way later.