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

If I hadn't seen the Grey Butcherbird sitting on a high branch of the old pine tree, I would have been doubtful about the source of these seeming Red Wattlebird calls (mid-foreground, centre right). There certainly were Red Wattlebirds about, but none in that tree at the time. But I could clearly see his feathered throat puffing out each time he made the Red Wattlebird calls, so there was no doubt; he even included a couple of Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater motifs, until finally - for a moment - he reverted to a couple of signature Butcherbird calls.

Recorded around 07:40 (ACDT) in Potter's Scrub, Coorong National Park. 96/32 > 48/24. High pass filter -6dB/octave at 400 Hz.

Inset photo credit: Mykelphotography, Grey Butcherbird, 27/05/2020, Gluepot Reserve (https://www.mykelphotography.com.au/latest-trips-and-locations-23)

Recorded on land of the Ngarrindjeri people that is now a national park.

2022.03.13 Grey Butcherbird as Red Wattlebird. Coorong. Early Autumn.

Cryogenic Lullaby (Song 3)

I recorded this early November in 2023. Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari is on the New Zealand, North Island. It´s a warm spring day with sounds of the birds but also farm animals and the occasional vehicle.

Sanctuary Mountain - Day and Evening

Got out of bed at 3.50am.  On the road at 4.46am, arrived at Ballyfad wood at 5.01am, it was then about a nine minute walk to the recording location.  Set up the three recorders, first the Tascam X8 with the Rode Nt4 stereo mic with the Cardioid capsules (52db gain).  Next the Tascam Dr100 Mk2 with the Warm Audio 84's (50db gain), strangely I get problems with these mics if I use them with the MixPre3, but they seem to work beautifully with the Tascam).  Finally I set up the MixPre3 with the MKH8020's, I had not been using these mics for quite awhile as I thought they had gone faulty, but it seems to not be the case.  The weather had been awful for so long, very wet and windy and though the drift of air was not from the best direction I still went for recording even though I could hear a small bit of swish from traffic coming from the motorway.  It was as more about experimenting and checking out the equipment as getting the best recordings, though that would be a bonus.  It was a cool morning, about 5C, near calm, dry and clear.  Left for home at 7.14am, arrived back at 7.31am.   Out of the seven recordings saved from the three long recordings from the three recorders, I like the Warm Audio results the best, they sound so thick and analogue, the levels on screen are very noticeably bigger and thicker than the other recordings, these two are uploaded here.  Recording  4134.

Dawn Chorus (4) 18th of April 2024 - 6.06am - Ballyfad Wood (Warm Audio 84's)

A few green frogs recorded in the village of Saint-Silvain-sous-Toulx (Creuse, France) around a watering place near a vegetable garden. In the distance, to the left, other, much more numerous frogs, subjects of another recording.
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Quelques grenouilles vertes (grenouilles communes) dans le village de Saint-Silvain-sous-Toulx (Creuse, France) autour d'un point d'eau près du potager de la maraichère. Au loin, à gauche, d’autres grenouilles bien plus nombreuses sujets d’un autre enregistrement.
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46,26195° N, 2,18256° E
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(Zoom F3, Sennheiser MKH8040, ORTF)

240413 · 9:00 pm · Grenouilles Vertes · Green Frogs (Creuse, France)

A little further on than the previous recording, a hidden pond with many more frogs.
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Un peu plus loin que le précédent enregistrement, un étang caché avec bien plus de grenouilles.
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Saint-Silvain-sous-Toulx (Creuse, France) 46,26339° N, 2,18290° E
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(Zoom F3, MKH8040, ORTF)

240413 · 10:00 pm ·  Grenouilles Vertes · Green Frogs (Creuse, France)

This recording takes us on a journey, from Südtiroler Platz to Karlsplatz on the line U1 of Vienna's U-Bahn. 

Recorded 11.04.2024
Zoom F3 + 2 x DPA 4060s

U-Bahn Journey - Vienna, Austria

The gentle sounds of wind blowing through the tree canopy and across the forest floor. (beech, pine)

Wind Soundscape - Pine and Mixed Woodland

Large Toadlets/Great Brown Brood Frogs (Pseudophryne major) In a gully feeding into Auburn River, Auburn River National Park. Zoom F1, PUI 5024 mics in a tree-ears rig.

Large Toadlet, Auburn River National Park

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.


Midnight in Borneo's Rainforest

Midnight in Borneo's Rainforest - Sarawak, Malaysia

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

2022.03.13 Grey Butcherbird as Red Wattlebird. Coorong. Early Autumn.

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