This album was recorded in a forest of 'Liquid Amber' - Frankincense - in Southern Turkey

'rasp' of a Krüper's Nuthatch - a Turkish endemic species

Full album available as mp3 or CD from www.listeningearth.com

3 minute audio sample from the 80 minute nature sound album; "Mojave", available for download from www.listeningearth.com/LE/product.php?id=118

It is the still moments before dawn in the Mojave desert. 

The first birds begin calling in the dark, their voices drifting over the open plains. From rocky slopes come the echoes of a Coyote pack in full cry, while a pair of Great Horned Owls call as they patrol their territory. 

As the dawn chorus grows, we hear a variety of western desert birdsong; Sparrows, Cactus Wrens, Flycatchers and Thrashers. A community of Gambel's Quail call prominently as they socialise, and a tiny Hummingbird buzzes our ear.

Mojave, An American Soundscape - Album sample

Birdsong from an autumn afternoon at Mt. Kooyoora in central Victoria

A variety of woodland birds can be heard, including Spotted Pardalotes, White-browed Babblers, Fuscous Honeyeaters and Diamond Firetails

Kooyoora autumn afternoon

3 minute audio sample from the 76 minute nature sound album; "Redwoods", available for download from www.listeningearth.com/LE/product.php?id=124

This album is presented in three scenes: a first dawn, an afternoon, and another dawn. The afternoon sequence is particularly spacious and relaxing, the dawn recordings fascinating and evocative. The ravens in these redwoods are rather characterful, giving all kinds of gargling and croaking calls.

We were so delighted to capture the sounds of Marbled Murrelets. These small seabirds  spend the day feeding at sea, before returning to roost high in a Redwood. They are a rare species, very endangered, and we are privileged to hear them as they wing seawards on their morning 'commute'.

Redwoods, An American Soundscape - Album Sample

The melodious song of a Blackcap is heard in a glade of Birch woodland in Sweden

'Birch Wood' - album sample

In an old growth pine forest, just below the snowline, the voices of Chaffinches, Goldcrests, Blackbird and Song Thrush welcome the spring.

'Pine Wood' - album sample

The reef-fringed islands of the Vanuatu group lie in the subtropical western Pacific Ocean. Their geographic isolation has lead to the evolution of species found nowhere else on earth.

Within earshot of waves breaking in the distance, this recording features the sounds of one of the Vanuatu's lowland rainforests.

3 minute audio sample from the 64 minute nature sound album; "Pacific Rainforest - Vanuatu", available for download from http://www.listeningearth.com/LE/p-129

Pacific Rainforest - Vanuatu - Album sample

Experience a walk in an Australian tropical rainforest.

Fruit doves call from high in the canopy, and exotic birds, such as the extraordinary Catbird, may be heard deep in the forest. Later, a restful symphony of night sounds gives way to the dawn chorus in a lush lowland rainforest.

'A Walk in the Rainforest'- album sample

Australia is a land of beautiful and unique birdsong.

From the familiar voices of bush and garden, to the secret song of the Redthroat; from a magical chorus of Tawny-crowned Honeyeaters, to a forest ringing with Bellbirds - This album is a journey around the continent, and a personal selection of our favourite songbirds.

'Favourite Australian birdsong'- album sample

Bulbuls have some of the most delightful and cheerful songs of all India's birds.

There are many species found across Asia, but the Red-whiskered and Red-vented Bulbuls of India have particularly pretty songs, and are commonly heard in woodlands and forests across the country.

Here we listen to them singing in the wild, where their joyful songs and perky personalities enliven the countryside, from woodlands adjacent to traditional villages, to the depths of evergreen forests.

Here is an album of birdsong that will make you smile.

'Cheery Bulbuls' - album sample

In the leafy shade of a woodland in Southern Turkey, the air is perfumed with the aroma of Frankincense. 

In ancient times, this small forest supplied sacred resin that was traded from Egypt to Babylon. Still a productive grove today, it is an oasis of calm. Birdsong wafts among the trees - Serins, Chaffinches, Long-tailed Tits, Nuthatches, Blackbird and Greenfinches are heard as they flit among the branches on a sunlit, spring morning.

'Frankincense Forest': album sample

'Time for the Tarkine' is a professionally recorded nature soundscape, available for  **FREE ** download at:
www.listeningearth.com/tarkine

This is a 3 minute audio sample from the 75 minute album. 

Australia's Tarkine region of northwest Tasmania contains the largest expanse of temperate rainforest in the southern hemisphere.

Here, hidden deep in river valleys and wild uplands, huge myrtle trees are festooned with epiphytes and mosses, and in their cool shade thrive an understory of tree ferns. These forests are ancient - they once covered the whole of Australia, and date as far back as the time of the dinosaurs and the primordial supercontinent of Gondwana.

Sadly, this region is under imminent threat of mining. There are currently 11 applications for large, open-cut developments pending, which the Australian government seems intent upon passing regardless of any environmental or social consequences.

Hence we've made this album freely available, so you can hear the wild voices of the Tarkine speak for themselves, and get a sense of what is at stake.

Download the complete album, grab your headphones, take some time & enjoy - and please - share this with friends.

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'Time for the Tarkine' - free 75 minute nature album to download

Listening Earth offers an evocative range of natural listening experiences -  soundscapes recorded in wild locations around the world. 

Established 25 years ago by nature field recordist Andrew Skeoch and photographer Sarah Koschak, it is their passion to share the beautiful, unique and often fragile soundscapes of our living planet. 

"We hope listening will remind you of life in balance, and transport you to wild and often remote places."

'Frankincense Forest': album sample

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