![]() View image in fullscreen Photograph: Tristan Hutchinson/the Observer “It brought home to me the fact that all we have in Ireland are remnants of those wild spaces and, for a time, I did think, how can I cope? In a way, what I do is about capturing the beauty of what we still have and increasing people’s awareness of it so that maybe we can turn it around in some way.” “It was a truly wild and beautiful place, where I could be totally alone with my own thoughts and surrounded by all these unfamiliar sounds.” When he returned to Ireland, he initially felt bereft. Ronayne’s interest in bird life deepened, he explains, when he lived for a time in Catalunya and immersed himself in the habitats and ecology of the Pyrenees. “The hedgerows that divide them have been slashed and thrashed, the bogs are being drained, and really sensitive areas in the uplands are being planted with conifers.” He describes conifer plantations witheringly as being as “bleak and species-poor” as their name suggests. “If you look at a Google map of Ireland, it is a jigsaw of intensive cow fields,” he tells a rapt audience at one of his illustrated talks. In Birdsong, a forthcoming documentary about him, he explains why. Conifers and cow fields, it turns out, are among his least favourite places. ![]() I am speaking to Ronayne over the phone to rural Cork where, he tells me, he is “standing next to some cow fields looking at a conifer plantation as part of a bird survey”. “I’m essentially a shy person, so it was a bit stressful,” he says of the experience, “and I honestly never expected the huge public reaction, but it was great to be able to promote the subject I care about the most.” By mimicking other species it’s encountered, the bird on your doorstep tells its story, including of epic migrations After a recent appearance on a popular Irish TV chatshow hosted by the comedian Tommy Tiernan, which went viral on social media, he has also become an unlikely and somewhat reluctant celebrity. What Ronayne calls his “total immersive obsession” with birds and their songs has made him Ireland’s best known ornithologist and a passionate advocate for biodiversity and ecological awareness. “I have three primary targets left – grey partridge, great skua and red-breasted merganser,” he tells me in his characteristically precise way, “before I start to go for secondary, less regularly occurring species.” ![]() Thus far, he has amassed nearly 10,000 recordings and, having meticulously analysed them on his laptop, has identified 194regularly occurring species. If(Greenfoot.Now, aged 35, Ronayne is on a mission to record the sound of every bird species in Ireland. * turn a bit left or right by a random degree. * Randomly decide to turn from the current direction, or not. * Check whether we are at the edge of the world. * In this version, we have added a sound effect, and the game stops when Import greenfoot.* // (World, Actor, GreenfootImage, and Greenfoot) The way I have it now, the sound loops really fast and freezes up the scenario. I am supposed to make the loop terminate after 1000000000 executions. ![]() ![]() We were instructed to use a while loop between the playing of the sound files, define an integer variable and increment it in the loop. I am trying to make it where when the lobster eats the crab, it plays the "slurp" file then plays the "fanfare" file. I am running the crab program from the Introduction to Programming with Greenfoot. I am new to programming and I am currently trying to insert a while loop between 2 sounds to provide a short delay between them. ![]()
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