Pachelbel's Song Bird

On July 7, 2022, Billy Basso posted a blog post summary of the Blue Bird Puzzle. This article contains a few strange inconsistencies, most notably in the image referencing the blue bird nonogram. The numbers on the blog post nonogram do not match the original numbers, so by using these new numbers we get the following image:

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  Solved nonogram

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  Clean QR Code

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  Image with false numbers

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  Original Image

Hidden image with completed code

This leads to an interesting new web page, requiring an 8 number input to unlock its secret. Take note of the name of the sub page: tune. If we go back to blog post, there are 4 unique images which, when clicked on, lead to a YouTube video of a song.

• Blaise de Vigenère: Vitamin C - Graduation
• Map: Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space
• In game picross: Vampire Weekend - Step
• Second cipher: Canon In D - Pachelbel's Canon

Each of these songs have the same relative chord progression: “1 5 6 3 4 1 4 5”. This just happens to be a set of 8 numbers, exactly what is needed for the web page.

From the solved web page, we get an image titled "instructions" with text "congratulations" displayed. In the metadata of this image, we find the message "THE FIRST TEN PEOPLE TO FIND THIS AND EMAIL ME WITH SUBJECT LINE ‘SONG BIRD’ WILL RECEIVE A REWARD." marking the end of the puzzle.

Credits

The original author of this puzzle summary in the Google Doc was starling#9598.