The intense sound of thousands of honey bees working within a hive

Workers

The continual sound of a sprinkler tick, tick, ticking: supplying water to a manicured lawn in South Africa.

Sprinkler

An interview with a local tribal woman living in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Mumbai. She tells of how her family has been living within the Park for 7 generations and also talks about the conflict between humans and the leopards of the Park. This is part of a 15 minute interview.

"Many of my relatives have been killed and eaten by leopards. The government has done nothing, given us nothing. My nephew was killed outside his house and my aunt was also killed in a brutal manner – only her head and bones were found.
People have been terribly scared ever since, and after these incidents children are not allowed to go outside after it is dark or close to 8 pm.
We’ve been told to leave the village on a number of occasions. They say that we are outsiders and immigrants, and that we should leave; but they don’t know that our ancestors have lived in this very village for a number of years, even before the park was built."


Marathi Interview

Bats

The sound of clothes being beaten against rocks to get them clean at a river laundry in Mumbai, India.

Washing Laundry

The sound of an approaching thunder storm. Recorded in a forest in the Carpathian Mountains in Romania.

Romania Thunder

Field recording on the north coast of Iceland with eider ducks and oyster catchers calling over the sound of the waves.

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The underwater sound of ice melting and breaking away from the Breidamerkurjokull Glacier in Iceland into the Jokulsarlon lagoon. 

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Field recording of  jackal howling in the early evening. Recorded in South Africa in 2013

Howling Jackal

The sound of city birds in Mumbai India
Recorded in December 2013

Mumbai Birds

Field recording of a Thrush in Preston city centre 2015

Melody 1

Field recording of a Robin (Erithacus rubecula) in Preston city centre 2015

Melody 2

Field recording of Woodpigeon (Columba palumbus) in Preston city centre 2015

Melody 3

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Melody 4

Field recording of natterjack toads 'singing'. Recorded in May 2015 at Sandscale Haws National Nature Reserve. Natterjack toads are endangered in the UK and therefore have strict protection under British and European law. They have full protection under schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.

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Field recording of the birds of the Ribble Estuary, a Site of Special Scientific Interest. Recorded in January 2015. The sound of humans ever present in the British landscape: birds and jet fighters.

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