Name: Call of the Schalow's Turaco by Martha Mutiso
Duration: 34 s
Description: The Schalow's Turaco is a spectacular green, crested turaco found in forest and dense woodland. It shows large crimson wing patches in flight, and can be seen bouncing through the trees, and flying occasionally with short bursts of wingbeats and long glides. This particular flock was busy feeding on fruiting trees and calling in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

Collaboration with https://soundcloud.com/pressureworks5

Words: Manca Klun
Music: Alessandro De Oliveira Bastos.
Music & Sound Manipulation: PressureWorks.

Leaving (collaboration with PressureWorks)

Watch Video + Read Blog → https://acousticnature.com/journal/pachaug-state-forest-nature-sounds 

Full Album: https://soundcloud.com/acousticnature/sets/the-sounds-of-pachaug-state-forest 

In celebration of the Equinox, I camped and recorded nature sounds in the Pachaug State Forest in Connecticut on September 22nd, 2021.

Although Connecticut is my home state, this was my first overnight field recording trip. That's because Connecticut is not a great state for recording quiet nature sounds. Connecticut has zero national forests, zero national parks (not counting historic sites), and zero BLM land.

Since the Pachaug State Forest is the largest forest in the state (27,000 acres), I thought it was my best chance at recording silence. Although I did capture some noise pollution free sounds, it was challenging and most of my recordings were polluted even late into the night, primarily by vehicle noise. 

Most of these recordings were made possible thanks to rain and wind overpowering the noise pollution, rendering it inaudible.

Recording Gear Used:
Olympus LS-10
Olympus LS-10s
SASS Microphone
Telinga Modular Parabolic Microphone
JrF D-Series Hydrophone

Barred Owl Calls at Night | SASS

Siddha´d, valgustunud meistrid, avastasid, et vaimu sünd inimesena on alati püha ja oluline ainult kahel põhjusel – saada esmalt targaks ja seejärel saada lunastus. 

Selles loengus räägib Ingvar muuhulgas:
•	Mis on hing?
•	Mis on vaim?
•	Milline on hinge ja vaimu omavaheline suhe?
•	Kas hingesugulus on olemas?
•	Mis on uuestisünni protess?

Ingvar Villido: Mis on hing ja inimesena kehastumise eesmärk? – Teadmiste tee seeria 02.11.2021

The song of my favorite bird captured with incredible detail by the Telinga Modular with two EM272 capsules installed in stereo configuration.

Distance from the wood thrush was about 7 meters.

Telinga Modular Review: https://acousticnature.com/journal/telinga-modular-parabolic-microphone-review

Wood Thrush Song | Telinga Modular Parabolic Microphone

Diseño sonoro como parte de proyecto Iluminando las sombras de la selva valdiviana. Proyecto Fondart Difusión Regional / Región de Los Ríos, 2022.

Soñé que nos inundábamos

A long soundscape across Dawn in the Queets River Valley rainforest of the Olympic National Park. Starting in Astronomical Twilight, a small herd of Roosevelt Elk walks in from a distance, though a small forest glade, an away towards the Queets River bed.

Early Autumn rainfall and dropping Maple Leaves are the dominant sounds to begin, their pak-pak-spaks are a reminder that time passes, even in the still quiet of a moss-covered forest.

Highway 101 in less than 12 miles away, and distant traffic is funneled up the Valley, showing the difficulty of escaping human-generated sound. This has been mitigated somewhat with light processing, but close listening and inspection will make remnants evident. There are no other edits or processes committed.

I love the crisp cold air of the rainforests in the fall. Sounds, natural and human generated, carry into the distant. Tucked into my sleeping bag, I lay back in my small tent, listening to the forest awaken. Where once there was just the soft distant wash of the river, the elk are joined by the local birds. Steller's Jays shriek their song with grating-yet-amusing "CHA-CHA-CHA-CHAs". A Northern Saw-whet toots in the forest canopy. Young Varied Thrush practice their songs, not quite reaching the beautiful and haunting signature fluting of their predecessors, instead emitting a silly buzzer-bell-like noise. Pacific Wren singing at the end of their season and the occasional Kingfisher make an appearance as well. Noe of these complete with the sheer vibrance of the elk.

Roosevelt Elk or Roosevelt's Wapiti or Rainforest Elk are the largest remaining elk species in North America and thrive in shadowy silences of the Pacific Northwest's temperate rainforests. Bull's bugles and roars echo through the trees, becoming one of the signature sounds of the Olympic Mountains. The cows mew and squeal in return, listening for one another to not wander far astray.

The small herd is a tight-nit family group, a with one, maybe two, dominant bulls, five or six cows in their harem, and a handful of young. The dominant bull leads the group on a daily hike, down from the upper valley to the river and back again. Their bugles urge the group, both signaling the direction to go and scolding those that dawdle. As they pass through the glade, their heavy footfall on the vegetative floor thump-thump-thumps their presence as much as the vocalizations and the continued crushing of vegetation as they push by.

I can't get enough of their energy. They pull back frequently. No matter how many times I encounter them, Elk never cease to awe me.

Click through the comments below for some highlights!

Northwest Soundscapes

Queets River Valley Rainforest Dawn with Elk

The Schalow's Turaco is a spectacular green, crested turaco found in forest and dense woodland. It shows large crimson wing patches in flight, and can be seen bouncing through the trees, and flying occasionally with short bursts of wingbeats and long glides. This particular flock was busy feeding on fruiting trees and calling in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

Call of the Schalow's Turaco

The sounds of a new day in the African bush. This album was recorded in Northern Tuli Game Reserve in Botswana and features the diverse sounds of birds and wildlife in an ecotone of mopane woodland and arid savanna.

Botswana: Dawn in Tuli Wilderness

Botswana: Dawn in Tuli Wilderness - Album Sample

Large pig frogs lead the croaking chorus of multiple species searching for mates in the flooded saw grass prairie along PaHaOkee Road in Everglades National Park, Florida. Southern cricket frogs "clack-clack" in background.Wide stereo field recorded in ORTF with pair of Line Audio CM3 cardioid microphones feeding a Sound Devices MixPre 3 recorder. February 2018.

Pig Frogs Pa Hay Okee

Elephants grumble and roar at night at a salt lick in the forests of Malaysia. Listen with headphones to hear the ultra low-frequency rumbles.

Ulu Muda

Elephants at a Salt Lick

Elephants at a Salt Lick - Ulu Muda, Malaysia

[Experiment] Trying the Shure MV88 mic on a iPhone for field recording (nature).   Not that I would want to do this very often, but it could be useful when better mics/recorders are not available in a given moment.   The photo shows the location where this recording was made (holding the iPhone, standing about 5 feet from the grass in lower middle of photo).

[Setup] Shure MV88 on an iPhone 10 with foam windscreen. Settings on app:  mid-side mode, max compression, flat EQ,   The quality is not bad for what it is.

The Shure MV88 is *not* a sensitive mic and certainly not great for nature field recording.  The manual even says it was designed to record in very loud environments like concerts, so it would not be good for recording a quiet soundscape.   However, for loud environments it seems OK.   These cricket frogs were so loud that I wore the headphones for ear protection even when not recording.  Without ear protection the frog calls were painfully loud (to give an idea of the ambient sound levels being recorded).

BTW, on an iPhone X I was not able to find a way to monitor audio while recording.  Gain was set by watching the meter on the app.  On phones that have plug-in headphones, apparently there is a way to monitor audio while recording.

iPhone field recording using Shure MV88 mic (frogs in forest)

🐞Conservation Storyteller 🐞Tour Leader 🐞Nature Soundscape Enthusiast
🐞Field recording Grantee https://earth.fm/artists/martha-mutiso/

With time, I hope my recordings will be a great contribution to conservation, film and the already existing archives of nature sounds and wildlife acoustics.

https://www.instagram.com/ecoescapades/

Call of the Schalow's Turaco

Martha Mutiso

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