John Hutchison’s Bird Recordings

Some of you who are from my generation or older and who are from Western Australia may be interested in this article. The very first bird recordings that I had as a young boy in the early 1970s were those of common Western Australian birds on a vinyl record produced by John Hutchison. I know John reasonably well, he is a very knowledgeable and unassuming person, and was one of several professionals in Perth at the time who encouraged a teenage me to maintain an interest in birds. I’m extremely glad that John’s recordings are now archived. Field recordist honoured for recording bird and Aboriginal songs http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-28/field-recordist-honoured-for-contribut ion/6502216 Stephen Ambrose Ryde, NSW