Truly enjoyed the full recording. And the background story. I wish that we could experience first light at 2 am here, sometimes!

This is a short excerpt of a 33 minute recording, the full recording can be heard here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8slrK6Bzzk

Up here in Sweden the nightingales have arrived from Africa and they are making me do crazy stuff, like getting up at 1am to cycle to the spot they like to hang out 😁. 
The sun rises really early during this time of the year (starts getting light around 2am) and it is a magical experience to hear the birds wake up while watching the sun rise.

Magical Nightingale Singing in Sweden - Pure Nature Sounds - EXCERPT

Utria National Park is a 54,300-hectare (210-square-mile) protected area located in the northwest of the wild Pacific coast.The Colombian Pacific  (Chocó) region, is one of the few remaining vast regions with no road infrastructure and large untouched jungle stretches. It is isolated from the rest of the country by impassable mountains with steep, muddy slopes covered in dense vegetation. The region also receives the most rainfall on the world.

Utria Frog (earth-experience.com)

Dark Jungle Night (earth-experience.com)

Utria Mangroves (earth-experience.com)

Rainfall And Tucan (earth-experience.com)

Mealy Parrots (earth-experience.com)

Jungle Creek (earth-experience.com)

Howler Monkey (earth-experience.com)

Pacific Ocean (earth-experience.com)

I had the pleasure of spending the month of December 2023 recording in a few different jungle locations in Costa Rica. The experience was wonderful and inspiring. Most of the trip was spent on Osa Peninsula, in lodges that bordered Parque Nacional Corcovado (Corcovado National Park).

The peninsula and the park are recognized as one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet, with 2.5% of the world's species represented, many of them endemic.

While the history of the park is fraught with controversy dating back to European colonization, the importance of conservation cannot be understated. 

My recordings are filled with wonderful moments that deserve to be heard. I'm parsing through everything, but I thought I'd start with one of my favorite, 90 minutes midnight insect chorusing. Growing up in the mid-Atlantic states of the US and with roots and time lived in the Deep South, few sounds bring me to a state of transcendence like the orchestrated song of insects at night. The spectrally tight but densely-layered score of hundreds or thousands of insects in concert is soothing to the ears and the best sleep-aid I can experience for myself. From time to time hungry bats flutter past.

Normally I'd point out a few voices along the way, but I'm out of my depth when it comes to identifying insects in neotropical forests, so I'll let the ecosystem speak for itself.

Recorded at Finca Sueño De Osa Lodge, Puerto Jimenez, Costa Rica

Parque Nacional Corcovado https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corcovado_National_Park

Interested in my recordings? Contact me here: https://linktr.ee/AndyMartinNatureSound

Costa Rica Midnight Insect Chorus near Corcavado

The sounds of wildlife at night in the African bush. This album was recorded in Northern Tuli Game Reserve in Botswana and features the sounds of some iconic species often heard at night in Africa's savannas and woodlands, including lion, leopard, elephant, Spotted Hyena and Black-backed Jackal, as well as nocturnal birds such as Pearl-spotted Owlet & African Scops Owl.

Magical Nightingale Singing in Sweden - Pure Nature Sounds - EXCERPT

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