Gannets

It might be that Beyonder has the most explicitly named birds of any Stornoway record.

I know in previous ones we've had soundscapes involving birds, but we actually say the species names on this record, from Gannet to Shearwater to Honey Eater and everything in between.

And the Honey Eater is this...

Very unusual case, it lives out in Australia and its habitat is changing so fast that the adult males are dwindling in numbers and they don't exist in the places in the right density that they need to in order to teach the next generation of male singing birds.

Um, G, a large sea bird or a greedy person.

Gannet.

Very good.

Um, H, the handle of a knife or ax.

but you can see an amazing, oh my God, it really is, it's unbelievable.

You see the Gannet colonies, you see puffins, all of that sort of stuff.

But do you know what? You're either into boats and water or you're not, as you probably guess, I'm into boats and water.

So let's do one that has nothing to do with