Recorded in primary rainforest at Sepilok Forest Reserve, Sabah, Malaysia.

This is an excerpt from a 27 minute track available at https://wildambience.com/albums/sepilok-rainforest-ambience/

Rainforest Ambience - Sepilok Forest Reserve

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Rainforest Ambience - Sepilok Forest Reserve, Sabah, Malaysia

Recorded during the hour after sunrise. Night and dawn had been quite calm, but the wind picked up quite vigorously, yet peacefully, soothingly, with the rising sun, swirling and soughing through the clusters of fine needle-leaves of the Sheoaks (and occasionally also through the windjammers of the microphones). A White-browed Babbler couple are feeding, flitting from branch to branch and tree to tree, constantly communicating with each other with their distinctive and gorgeous churring, chucking and whistling calls, and, on their way, passing close to the microphones.

Listening with good headphones is recommended.

Track image: The background landscape is the location of the recording, photographed soon after the recording was made. The inset is a White-browed Babbler (Pomatostomus superciliosus), photographed by D. Newell at Gluepot Reserve on 25.09.2015 (https://www.adelaideornithologists.com/uploads/2/1/6/9/21699228/7770102_orig.jpg).

2021.09.19 Wind and White-browed Babblers in the Sheoaks. Mallee Country. Early Spring.

One a series of recordings I made recently at the Boyana Lake in Vitosha National Park in Bulgaria. What's interesting about this recording is that it was done at dusk and along with the last bird calls for the day halfway through the recording you can hear a bat approaching the microphones and echolocating them. Of course while I was recording I just saw the bat flying around the microphones but did not hear it because the sounds that it makes are far above the normal human hearing range and even its wings are super quiet. Then in post production I selectively pitched down these sounds in order to make them audible for us.

Frogs and bats at Boyana Lake 24-04-12- 013

Lift off! This was spectacular beyond what I could have imagined. The starling murmuration at the Avalon Marshes in Somerset. Hundreds of thousands of birds departing from their roost on the reed beds. The numbers are hard to comprehend. First the silence - a timid chorus at this time of year - then the starlings start to chatter. Suddenly there is a build up of rumbling bass, like wind hitting the microphone or something about to erupt. Then the waves across the field, like ocean waves in the distance, both visually and sonically. And the lift off. The rumble becomes a satisfying silky carpet enveloping you overhead.

This repeats 3-4 times as different waves of departing starlings take flight. MAGICAL.

I edited 30 seconds at the end from when they've all left, to give perspective, so you can appreciate the decibels such a gathering produces.

Location: Shadwick Heath, Somerset, UK
Date and time: 25 February 2024, 7am
Habitat: Reed beds, Flooded plains

Gear (Associate Links):
Sound Devices 744T
Sennheiser MKH8060 and MKH30 in Mid-Side rig.
Nikon Z6-II https://amzn.to/4aWjeyZ
Sigma 24-70mm F2.8 DG OS HSM https://amzn.to/4bmU24t
Sigma 70-200 F2.8 https://amzn.to/3Wpdrxu

Starling Murmuration Dawn Lift-Off

Sound Devices MixPre-3 + Sennheiser MKH 40 in ORTF

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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.

Botswana – Night in the African Bush

Botswana: Night in the African Bush - Album Sample

Loriot d'Europe (Oriolus oriolus) - Eurasian G. Oriole Forêt Sénart Cris et chants shouts and songs

It was still dark when I arrived at Etang des Landes at around 5:30 am. A nightingale was already singing loudly and I was able to approach it without startling it. Frogs croaked in the distance...
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Il faisait encore nuit quand je suis arrivé vers 5h30 du matin à l'étang des landes. Un rossignol était déjà entrain de chanter bien fort et j'ai pu l'approcher sans l'effaroucher. Les grenouilles croassent au lointain.

240510 · 05:30 am · Etang Des Landes (Creuse, France) · The Nightingale and the Frogs

Earsight Stereo Pair + Tascam DR-70D
24bit/96kHz
60Hz lowcut

Sáros-tó 2024-05-10

A natural symphony of frogs, insects, frogmouths (a type of nocturnal bird) and a distant Great Argus Pheasant recorded around midnight in Lambir Hills National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia.


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Montaje de fonografías de la Isla grande de Chiloé complementaria para instalación del proyecto "Texturas Visuales de Chiloé" de Matías Aylwin.

Texturas Chiloé

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Exploring hearing, the hearable, and the hearer, as an event, a mode, and a dimension of Βeing (τὸ εἶναι).

2021.09.19 Wind and White-browed Babblers in the Sheoaks. Mallee Country. Early Spring.

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