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Is it just me or is listening to most bird song recordings really irritating?

Listening to real birds in nature is wonderful, but trying to boil that into a recording never seems to work. Any recommendations?

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I will risk and mention myNoise, but in general any field recording long takes (e.g. freetousesounds) soung good. Mind is fantastic at detecting an exactly repeated sound, so anything that avoids it.

I think many bird recordings are made to showcase songs of different species, it would be more relaxing to listen to field recordings that capture the whole soundscape.

> capture the whole soundscape

Not sure the technical term I want, but microphones aren't the same as human ears.

Of course not, but there are different kinds of microphones, recording techniques, processing and editing. Some achieve interesting results. An example of field recordings of nature that I like very much is [1].

[1] Francisco López - La Selva (Sound Environments from a Neotropical Rain Forest) https://youtube.com/watch?v=1_slk9NmgGM

I will nominate this recording: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/107159

Dawn Chorus. Queensland, Australia. Recorded from 0515hr to 0640hr.

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