Hoping your next trip to Yellowstone is a winner as well.

Intricate, subtle, delicate: a wonderful tapestry of bird sounds. Very lovely recording. Thank you.

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Listen to calls and songs of birds during a late spring snowstorm on May 16, 2021.

East Troublesome Fire Burn Site 1. West side of Rocky Mountain National Park.

Recordings were collected for research purposes with written permission and permits from the park.

Bird Song in Snowfall -- Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, U.S.A.

Costa Rica's rainforests are lively and active at night, even if it might not seem like it. A night walk in the jungle will reveal countless creatures going about their business - hunting or trying to avoid hunters, looking for food and sometimes searching for a mate. Longer version at https://youtu.be/hl7LaTWnDYA

Night in the jungles of Costa Rica

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August 19 2015, 7:08 AM. Okavango Delta.

Every morning is a whole new variety, I just set this one up just after dawn and let it go.

Recorded by Brian House (http://brianhouse.net, http://soundcloud.com/brianhouse) for the Okavango Wilderness Project. These sounds are in the public domain and may be downloaded and used for any purpose, but consider linking to our expedition website: http://intotheokavango.org

Equipment used: Sound Devices 702 digital recorder with Sennheiser 418 stereo shotgun microphone (M/S). Post-processing in Logic Audio (editing, normalization, EQ, limiter). Format: 96khz 24-bit WAV. 

Field Recording: Dawn Chorus Mega Mix (No Edits)

The clear "peep" notes in the beginning of the track are the Swainson's Thrush nocturnal call notes and then the bird starts singing its flutey, upward spiraling song. This was recorded on a Songmeter on the lands of the Poplar River First Nation in the Pimachiowin Aki World Heritage Site. Find out more here:  https://pimaki.ca/

Swainson's Thrush Nocturnal Call Notes In Song - Poplar River Manitoba - S4A01761 20160608 050002

This recording was made on July 15, 2015 in Mesa Verde National Park using a Roland R05 digital audio recorder and an omnidirectional microphone. This setup was part of a standard acoustical monitoring project by the Natural Sounds and Night Skies Division of the National Park Service.

A pair of coyotes go on barking and yipping for nearly three hours. About 2 hours into the recording, the first bird song of the day is heard as the dawn chorus joins the coyotes. This recording site was in a canyon in a wilderness area of the park. The walls of the canyon cause the calls of the coyotes to really echoes throughout the area.

Wear headphones for the best listening experience. 

Enjoy!

Coyotes and Dawn Chorus -- Mesa Verde National Park

This recording was made during the early morning hours in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park on August 6, 2017. My equipment used was a Sound Devices 722 digital audio recorder and two AT4022 omnidirectional microphones placed in a homemade binaural housing. 

Wear headphones for the best listening experience.

Enjoy!

Late Summer Dawn in the Sequoias

This recording of the dawn chorus at Blacktail Ponds in Yellowstone National Park was made on May 20, 2018 at 6am using a Sound Devices 722 digital audio recorder and two Audio Technica AT4022 omnidirectional microphones placed in a homemade binaural microphone housing.

Wear headphones for the best listening experience.

Enjoy!

Recordings were made under permits issued by the park and for the purpose of science and education.

Wetland Dawn Chorus -- Yellowstone National Park

This is a Whip-poor-will singing from quite close to the microphone and one or more Whip-poor-will's in the background as well. Recorded using a Songmeter SM4 deployed along the Poplar River in Manitoba in the territory of the Poplar River First Nation. This is an area protected by the Poplar River First Nation and is part of the Pimachiowin Aki World Heritage Site. You can find out more about Pimachiowin Aki here: https://pimaki.ca/

Wonderful Whip-Poor-Will Sequence -Poplar River-Manitoba -Jul1-2018-S4A01732 20180701 224802

Dawns of Deep Creek: A Seasonal Study. Recording 2.

This unedited recording has been uploaded to the Playlist collections https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/sets/dawns-of-deep-creek-a-seasonal-study and https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/sets/deep-creek-conservation-park-soundscape-perspectives for the purposes of nature documentation and future comparative referencing; as well as for its own inherent natural aesthetic and meditative value.

Recorded on Sunday 28 July in Deep Creek Conservation Park, South Australia. The recording commences at 05:57 (with a crescent honeyeater calling in the foreground) and ends at 08:14 (ACST).

The following moon and sun data for the location assume ideal horizon and clear weather, neither of which were the case: it was fairly cloudy and, given the location just below the crest of one side of a valley, the ocean horizon to the north-east was not visible because of the intervening hill on the far side of the valley. But the deep rumbling and roaring of the ocean, and the occasional crashing of large waves, can be heard emanating from both the far left and the far right, travelling inwards from both ends of the valley.

Moonrise 03:10. Moon phase between Third Quarter and New Moon (four days before New Moon). Fraction of moon illuminated 0.25. Nautical Twilight 06:18. Sunrise 07:17. (Bird activity in this valley began much earlier than I had expected. I believe that this was in response to the moonlight that preceded the solar twilight. I was on my way to my intended dawn recording location from my previous recording location (cf. https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20190728-deep-creek-the-healing-emptiness-between-the-worlds) when the birds began calling, so I stopped where I was, set up, and began recording. And I'm grateful for the result that nature forced on me. It's very peaceful, like deep, gentle breathing ... until, inevitably, the first human machine noises of the day finally pass through ... but the morning continues.)

Weather data from the local weather station at Parawa : Minimum overnight temperature 7.2° C. Wind direction and speed at 09:00: NE 6 km/h. Relative humidity at 09:00: 73%.

(Please note that the location and topography of this recording are quite different from those in https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20181212-first-light-and-sunrise-at-deep-creek-early-summer. Exact location details for all recordings in this collection will be provided at a later time, when the project is closed.)

Recorded with a pair of MKH 8020s in an AB arrangement with 50 cm spacing into a MixPre-6. (Best listened to with good quality headphones with a flat frequency response.)

2019.07.28 From Before First Light to After Sunrise at Deep Creek: Mid-Winter

Dawns of Deep Creek: A Seasonal Study. Recording 3.

This recording has been uploaded to the Playlist collections https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/sets/dawns-of-deep-creek-a-seasonal-study and https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/sets/deep-creek-conservation-park-soundscape-perspectives for the purposes of nature documentation and future comparative referencing, as well as for its own inherent natural aesthetic and meditative value.

Recorded in Deep Creek Conservation Park, South Australia. The original complete recording begins at 03:47 and ends at 07:35; the version uploaded here omits the first 51 minutes, beginning at 04:38 (but it is otherwise unedited). By this time, the earliest diurnal bird calls are quite distinctly audible(mainly Crescent Honeyeaters); but nocturnal Boobook Owls can still also be heard. In fact, however, the diurnal birds had begun calling at least half an hour earlier, soon after moonrise, although their calls were much fainter, and difficult to discern behind the crooning of the frogs.

The location and topography of the recording, as well as its lifeworld content and soundscape texture, are again quite different from both https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20190728-from-before-first-light-to-after-sunrise-at-deep-creek-mid-winter and https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20181212-first-light-and-sunrise-at-deep-creek-early-summer. But some of the astronomical conditions were similar to those of the former recording.

In particular, moonrise (for ideal horizon and meteorological conditions) was at 03:40. The moon phase was three days before New Moon (similarly in the previous recording); the fraction of the moon illuminated was 0.24 (at the time of the previous recording it was 0.25). On this occasion, the sky was clear. Once again, the appearance of the crescent moon above the hill and tree line (at around 04:13) induced a very early 'First Light' response in the birds. Actual Nautical Twilight (for ideal horizon and meteorological conditions) was at 05:08; and sunrise at 06:03.

Weather conditions were very calm, and the temperature remained at or below dew point throughout the night. Hence, lots of condensation on the foliage of the trees and bushes, which is the source of the constant sound of water drops striking plant leaves and the ground; and occasionally also the microphone tripod, stereo bar, and windshields.

The location is in a creek valley approximately one kilometre inland from the coastline, so the roar of the ocean can be heard throughout the recording (mainly in the distance to the left), though it waxes and wanes in intensity. The trickling of the nearby creek flowing down the valley can also be heard (to the right).  (This particular little creek is known as Tapanappa Creek. There are quite a few creeks flowing down to sea within Deep Creek Conservation Park, including the eponymous Deep Creek itself.)

Some of the bird species heard in the recording: Crescent Honeyeater, Boobook Owl, Grey Shrikethrush, Grey Currawong, Red Wattlebird, Yellow-Tailed Black Cockatoo, White-throated Treecreeper, Common Bronzewing, Australian Magpie, Australian Raven, Honeyeaters of several kinds, possibly Thornbills. The names of others will be added, here, as they are identified by the recordist.

Recorded with a pair of MKH 8020 microphones in AB array with 60 cm spacing into a MixPre-6. (Best listened to with good quality headphones with a flat frequency response. It's also best not to set the volume level too high, as some of the sudden close bird calls (e.g., of Currawongs, etc.) can be loud and piercing.)

2019.09.25 From Before First Light to After Sunrise at Deep Creek: Early Spring

It's an overcast morning at a clearing deep in the Harenna forest. Wildlife has been up for hours and the dawn chorus is in full swing. Gigantic hornbills fly around, their harsh feathers sounding like miniature aircraft when gliding. 

Recorded in the beautiful Harenna Forest just south of Bale Mountains National Park in Ethiopia. Technical details: Sony PCM D10 and Lom MikroUsi microphones left out for 48 hours as drop rig. Longer version on my Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/rtVT5KKViN4

Ethiopian Cloud Forest - Dawn Chorus With Hornbills And Colobus Monkeys

This is my favorite recording from my 5 day camping trip on the Chattooga River in South Carolina. 

I woke up around 5am this morning to the first bird call of the dawn chorus. I quickly and quietly got out of my sleeping bag and setup my Sony D100 on a tripod and began recording. 

This recording is the highlight from a longer, 60 minute recording. I love the natural reverb effect from the birds calling across the open river. 

Thank you for taking the time to read and listen ☺

Check out my website for more: www.acousticnature.com

Dawn Chorus on a River | Sony D100 Field Recording

Summer 2020 Ambient Field Recordings done during the age of continued COVID-19 pandemic social distancing and isolation. In and around Laramie, Wyoming, U.S.A.

Equipment: Zoom H4n Pro with LOM mikroUsi microphones.

Snowy Range Mountain Creek On North Fork Trail

This is one of my favorite recordings from my recent camping trip on the Chattooga River.

I went down to the edge of the river during dusk and setup my Sony D100 on a tripod. I then went back to camp, ate dinner and relaxed as I listened to the transition of day to night. 

My favorite part of this recording are all the jumping and splashing fish. I also enjoy the closeup calls of bull frogs and green frogs. 

Thank you for listening ♫

Please checkout my website at www.acousticnature.com to read my articles about field recording :)

Dusk on the Chattooga | Jumping Fish, Frogs & Birds [Sony D100]

A recording from central New York State (North America)of thousands of night migrating birds on the night of September 11-12, 2020. The most common calls are from 12+ species of wood warblers, Rose-breasted Grosbeak & Swainson's Thrush -  most all headed to Caribbean Islands, southern Mexico or Central & South America for the winter. The 6+ hour recording began at 9:45pm EDT. To hear the intricacies, crank the volume. WARNING FOR HEADPHONE LISTENERS: There are a few instances of very loud bird calls (ex. flock of Green Herons passing over at 0:01:45 - one minute 45 seconds into recording. Adjust your headphone listening level on this section before proceeding).

I made this recording using an "Old Bird 21c" microphone mounted on a 2.5 meter wood tower in the middle of a hay field. It contains the densest dark terrain (no artificial light), non-coastal, avian nocturnal flight call rate I have documented in 30+ years of monitoring such calls in North America. The original audio submitted to SoundCloud was a mono wav file, 22050 sampling rate, 16 bit resolution.

The artwork is by Cheryl Chalmers (c) 2011, and depicts her kids listening to night migrating birds through a roof-mounted "flowerpot"  microphone in Trumansburg, NY.

Special thanks to Cathy & Frank Darrow for hosting the recording station in their Danby, NY hayfield, and to Herb Susmann of Nature Sound Electronics for superb S/N in the microphone electronics.

Big Migration Night

Travel over 2,000 miles during spring bird migration 2019 with project lead Dr. Jacob Job and audio producer Jacqueline Van Meter to examine the mutual challenges that migratory birds and humans face due to human activity on the planet. 'Voices of a Flyway' stimulates active, mindful listening to nature, reintroduces us to the species and places of our past, deepens our connection to the natural world, and heals our collective mindset about our place within it. 

Project lead Dr. Job is a conservationist, science communicator, natural sounds recordist, National Geographic Explorer, and bird watcher. He travels the country and world, documenting the sounds of nature in our nation's most treasured lands, building connections between people and these places, and working to advocate for their protection.

Wetland Dawn Chorus -- Yellowstone National Park

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