Name: Dawn Chorus, Wahgi Valley, PNG by WhatNikosDid in Nature
Duration: 5 min
Description: Dawn Chorus from Papua New Guinea.

Nature

The montane rainforests of Gunung Halimun are one of the last truly wild places on the island of Java. Logging and intensive farming have all taken their toll on this densely populated Indonesian island, and only small fragments of healthy forest remain.

In the lush, steep hills of the Gunung Halimun-Salak mountain range, rushing mountain streams cascade through ancient mossy forests, and wildlife is abundant.

This album captures the gentle sounds of a mountain stream along with birds, frogs and insects from the surrounding rainforest from afternoon until about the early hours of the morning. 

With the natural 'white-noise' from the rushing stream, this album is ideal for noise-masking, as a sleeping aid, and for sufferers of tinnitus.

The full 50 minute album is available for download from https://wildambience.com/albums/mountain-stream/

Mountain Stream

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'Mountain Stream' - Album Sample - recorded in Gunung Halimun National Park, Java

A short excerpt from Richard Fortey's book Trilobite.

Richard Fortey's Trilobite read by LC

‘The woods are the great beauty of this country… A fine forest-like beech wood far more beautiful than anything else which we have seen in its vicinity’ is how John Stuart Mill described a small patch of beech-and bluebell woodland, buried deeply in the Chiltern Hills and now owned by Richard Fortey. Drawing upon a lifetime of scientific expertise and abiding love of nature, Fortey uses his small wood to tell a wider story of the ever-changing British landscape, human influence on the countryside over many centuries and the vital interactions between flora, fauna and fungi.

The trees provide a majestic stage for woodland animals and plants to reveal their own stories. Fortey presents his wood as an interwoven collection of different habitats rich in species. His attention ranges from the beech and cherry trees that dominate the wood to the flints underfoot; the red kites and woodpeckers that soar overhead; the lichens, mosses and liverworts decorating the branches as well as the myriad species of spiders, moths, beetles and crane-flies. The 300 species of fungi identified in the wood capture his attention as much as familiar deer, shrews and dormice.

Fortey is a naturalist who believes that all organisms are as interesting as human beings – and certainly more important than the observer. So this book is a close examination of nature and human history. He proves that poetic writing is compatible with scientific precision. The book is filled with details of living animals and plants, charting the passage of the seasons, visits by fellow enthusiasts; the play of light between branches; the influence of geology; and how woodland influences history, architecture and industry. On every page he shows how an intimate study of one small wood can reveal so much about the natural world and demonstrates his relish for the incomparable pleasures of discovery.

The Wood for the Trees: The Long View of Nature..., By Richard Fortey, Read by Mike Grady

A rich spring dawn chorus in Round HIll Nature Reserve, south west New South Wales.  This reserve protects a significant area of mallee habitat where a number of threatened species can be found. 

Dozens of birds are calling in this recording including Crested Bellbird, Grey Shrikethrush, Rufous Whistler, White-fronted & White-eared Honeyeaters, Splendid Fairywren, Southern Scrub-robin, Peaceful Dove, Weebill, Emu & more...!

Dawn at Round Hill Nature Reserve

Dawn at Round Hill Nature Reserve, NSW, Australia

Eight mute swans land on thick ice on a lake, then trudge into the open water. Contact mic on surface of ice on edge of Lake. Northumberland
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Mute - Swans - Landing - On - Ice

Wood Pigeon Song

A compilation from the two series on Radio 4, including hosts....
John Cleese
Shappi Khorsandi
Sally Phillips
Omid Djalili
Howard Jacobson
Jane Horrocks

My Dream Dinner Party Compilation

Unknown album (25/04/2020 15:39:34)

Blackcap

Sounds from Papua New Guinea

Dawn Chorus, Wahgi Valley, PNG

Soudain le chant du Rossignol philomèle (Luscinia megarhynchos) remplit le silence de la nuit. 
Suddenly the Nightingale’s song (Luscinia megarhynchos) fills the silence of the night.

© Ph.V. 2020

Rossignol philomèle nocturne

Rainforest

Howler monkeys recorded in Tortuguero National Park, Costa Rica, in 2019. The ambisonic recording was made using a Soundfield ST450mkII and rendered to binaural using Harpex. The monkeys can be heard overhead when listening on headphones (the binaural effect doesn't work on speakers). All rights reserved.

Rainforest - Caution! Howlers Overhead

After many failed attempts, I finally managed to get the Goosanders courtship calls before they leave the roost - the cackling of the females and the very quiet musical frog-like croaks of the males. 
Well worth getting up at 5am on Christmas morning and lying in a wet field at minus 5 degrees for 3 hours!
By the River Ouse, N Yorkshire. MKH8020/30 in reflector to SD MixPre-3

Goosander on Christmas Day

Little Owls welcome in New Year 2021 with a background of distant midnight fireworks.
Primo 172 AB to PCM-M10. Hessay, N Yorkshire. No mixing!

Little Owls & Fireworks: New Year 2021

Here's another recording from Kubah National Park in Sarawak, Malaysia. The only editing to this is a slight adjustment to equalisation.

Download the full 15 minute version https://wildambience.com/albums/dusk-by-the-frog-pond

Dawn Chorus, Wahgi Valley, PNG

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