Geoff Sample on the Marsh Warbler

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Marsh Warblers have long held a mystique for wildlife sound recordist Geoff Sample ever since reading John Walpole-Bond's claim that the marsh warbler song reached a pitch ‘intensely passionate even to the verge of delirium’. Not only that, but marsh warbler's are one of nature's great mimics. It's thought that individual birds can have a repertoire of around 80 different species, songs it encounters on its long migration across Europe and Africa. More recently Geoff worked with Francoise Dowsett Lemaire, who unlocked much of what we know today about the marsh warbler's song, alongside artist Hanna Tuulikki in a project involving the amazing song of this long-distance migrant. Producer : Andrew Dawes of BBC Audio in Bristol Studio Engineer : Ilse Lademann