This is a recording of some interactions on a black grouse lek in the highlands of Scotland. 

It was recorded with a Sony M10 and a matched pair of Clippy EM172 mics.

AVIEMORE  - BLACK GROUSE LEK - EARLY MORNING - VERY CLOSE COOING AND HISSES 2.0 M10

The Eurasian Scops Owl (Otus Scops) is the only European owl that undertakes a long migration from south of the Sahara desert up to southern and eastern Europe to breed in the early Spring. 

This recording was made late at night on the Old Golf Course of Mandelieu La Napoule. A number of Scops Owls were calling to one another from the trees around the golf course. 

Sound Devices Mix Pre 6 + 2 x Sennheiser MKH 8040s
11.04.2021

Image courtesy of Frank Vassen (Creative Commons)

Eurasian Scops Owls - Mandelieu La Napoule, France

There's less wildlife activity in cloud forests than in the rainforests but the sounds you might come across can be pretty unique.

Located on the top of a hill above the river so you can hear some distant pink noise. It was 6:00 morning time after spending the night camping deep inside the cloud forest of Cueva de Los Guacharos national park.

This was the night ambience being kilometers away, over the mountains from the nearest rural settlement.

Cueva de Los Guácharos is a 90 km2 protected area of dense preserved forests and thick vegetation. It's the last mountain before the Amazon basin. The highest peak reaches 2621m. Only a tiny bit of a park can be accessed by trails but the majority is entirely inaccessible. There are areas and surely caves that are undiscovered. The 90 km2 size does not seem so much but thick vegetation with steep slopes, avalanches makes this place very difficult to access.

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Equipment used:
Sound Devices MixPre-3 + Audio-Technica AT4022

Morning in the Colombian Cloud Forest

It is late summer in the Finger Lakes Region of upstate New York. As night unfolds, crickets trill, their songs mesmerizing and tranquil. Then, without warning, Coyotes howl and yip, their reverberant echos reaching out in all directions. Exhilarating, intoxicating wild music, flowing deeply into the recesses of our minds.

NOTE: This is a 3-D binaural recording. Please wear headphones for a realistic spatial listening experience that wil make you think you're actually outdoors, immersed in the natural world. 

OF FUTHER NOTE: I recorded the coyotes one night in mid-July in a forested area in upstate New York. There was very little background sound, so I returned three weeks later to same spot to record crickets trilling gently. I then added the cricket chorus to the coyote track to provide a more relaxing and meditative background. Also ... long silent intervals between three different outbursts have been drastically shortened.

Recordings © Lang Elliott, Music of Nature. All Rights Reserved.

Coyote Reverberations

This album is the third in the series 'Sounds of Wild Thailand' and features the vibrant sounds of Huai Kha Khaeng's forests from dawn until dusk.

Species recorded include: Indochinese Tiger, Thai Golden Jackal, Green Peafowl & many more bird species. For full details & to download visit https://wildambience.com/albums/forest-of-life/

Sounds of Wild Thailand III: Forest of Life

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Night in September in the Matang range, Sarawak, Borneo.
The frog chorus begins to slow as the night progresses.

Pool ( Midnight cadences )

Psarocolius montezuma recorded at a nesting colony, near Turrialba, Costa Rica. 5.30am 2nd March 2018. Primo 172 mics AB to SONY PCM-M10
Overall winner of 2019 Competition of Wildlife Sound Recording Society
https://simontelliott.wordpress.com/2018/03/27/some-birds-have-all-the-luck/

Montezuma Oropendola

3 minute audio sample from the 75 minute nature sound album; "An African Night", available for download from http://www.listeningearth.com/LE/product.php?id=103

It is deep night in the East African bush. A full moon illuminates the savannah, silhouetting ancient baobab tress. 

The air is filled with a rich chorus of nocturnal insects. This choir of small critters create a gentle, pulsating chorus, each insect with its own voice; chiming, ticking, zizzing, humming…

Meanwhile bats flutter overhead, sometimes coming close and audibly echo-locating. Nightjars call mysteriously on the wing, and if you listen carefully, the deep rumbling vocalisations from a family of elephants grazing nearby can occasionally be heard.

This is an ambient and spacious recording, a hypnotic meditation from the African night. 

Andrew comments:

One of our colleagues said we'd love the insect choruses in Africa. He was right - they were rich and mesmerising. Some nights we'd just lie in camp and listen until we drifted off to sleep.

Often we'd leave our microphones out all night. This is one of the most rich and engaging insect choirs we recorded.

An African Night - Album Sample

I recorded these thunder and rain sounds on the 15 November 2018 between 2 am and 4 am after a earthquake woke us up! You can listen to some incredible long thunder rolling and rumblings. Rain, crickets, frogs and other night creatures.

Recorded with the Zoom F8n, DPA 4060 and the USI Pro!
The total length of the upcoming library is almost 2 hours! Stay tuned!

Thunder & Rain In Paradise"Ubud-Bali"! New Nature Sound Library Coming Soon!

30 June 2020

During an unattended nocturnal recording session in a patch of old-growth forest a rain and thunder weather passed over during late evening hours. Birds stopped singing except for a Common Chiffchaff which actually seemed triggered by the rain and thunder.

Vindeln commune, Northern Sweden (64.11 N, 19.44 E)

Primos, +6 dB, 150 Hz/6 dB low cut filter in post

Chiffchaff singing in rain and thunder

This gentle insect chorus was recorded late at night on the Le Muracciole Farm on the outskirts of Canino in the Lazio region of Italy. The mics were placed close to a trickling stream resulting in a calm natural soundscape. 

Recorded 06.08.2020
Sony PCM A10 + 2 x LOM mikroUsi

Night Insect Chorus  - Canino, Lazio, Italy

Sound recordist Colin Hunter 
Founder of the World Sounds project

Eurasian Scops Owls - Mandelieu La Napoule, France

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