Audio from the Hotel New Yorker's radio. 

New Yorker Radio

Advertisement for the New Yorker Hotel's "Tiger Stretch" fitness service.

NYH Tiger Stretch And Signoffs

La Llorona

I'm an American! - Thomas Mann

Give Me Your Tired

Myotis bat (Myotis brandii)

xeno-canto

Hermit thrush (Catharus guttatus sequoiensis)

alans jingles

GoodKnight

Aren't We Lucky

Please Pass The B - W. Lee O'Daniel And His Hillbilly Boys

Grieg Piano Concerto - Freddy Martin And His Orchestra

Researchers have often studied the songs of male birds, and not paid much attention to female birds' songs. Researcher Karan Odom, who shared these recordings, is trying to raise awareness about female songbirds' songs. 

These are songs by female and male Venezuelan troupials. While these songs sound different, the males and females might perform several versions of their songs, Odom says, making it trickier to tell them apart.

(Photo by Paolo Costa Baldi/CC-BY-SA 3.0)

Male Troupial Song (Courtesy of Karan Odom)

Female Troupial Song (Courtesy of Karan Odom)

This audio file contains 20 minutes of microphone data recorded during the March 8, 2017 Bogoslof eruption, sped up 60 times. The volcanic thunder sounds are the quick clicks and pops heard throughout, while the sounds of the eruption are the lower-pitched whirring sounds. (Courtesy of Matt Haney / Alaska Volcano Observatory & U.S. Geological Survey)

Listen to the Clacking of Volcanic Thunder

Audio postcards from a journey of wonder and surprise with Atlas Obscura and All Things Considered. Edited by Sarah Laskow.

Crescent Beach - Bird's Wings

Bats are often hard to spot even when they're nearby, because we can't hear the clicks they use to echolocate. Staff writer Jessica Leigh Hester tagged along on a nighttime bat trek in the forest of Rondeau Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada, where naturalists used a tool to decode bats' clicks and translate them into sounds that humans can wrap our ears around.

(Image: Paul K/CC by 2.0)

The Bat-Loving Naturalists Translating the Silent Language of the Night

Audio postcards of the secret wonders of Times Square. Recorded, produced, and edited by Jessica Leigh Hester. 

Photo: Aïda Amer/Atlas Obscura

The Sounds of Jon Baltimore Music Company

Audio postcards of the secret wonders of Times Square. Recorded, produced, and edited by Jessica Leigh Hester.

Photo: Aïda Amer/Atlas Obscura

Can You Hear the Hum?

First, in the early 1900s, Bronson Cave was a quarry whose rocks helped build California's streets. In later decades, it became a popular set for films and TV, including the 1960s "Batman" series. Staff writer Jessica Leigh Hester visited to see what it sounds like.

Photograph by Rozette Rago for Atlas Obscura

What Does a Bat Cave Sound Like in Real Life?

Researchers collected this audio near Gabon in 2005. (Courtesy of WCS Ocean Giants Program)

Photo credit: A breaching humpback whale in the waters off Gabon in Western Equatorial Africa. ©Tim Collins/Wildlife Conservation Society

How Humpbacks Sing Near Gabon

Lake Kivu Fishermen Song

Times Square, New York

LAX Airport, Los Angeles

Grand Central, New York

Covent Garden, London

Near Subhas Chandra Bose Airport, Kolkata

Property of AMNH, courtesy Patrick Feaster and Indiana University

Recording made by Berthold Laufer in 1901.

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