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Northwest Soundscapes
by Andy "soundeziner" Martin
Field Recordist / Sound designerShhhhh. Listening to nature.To license sounds or for all other inquiries: [email protected]#naturesound #naturesoundscape #fieldrecording #naturesounds #savequiet #listentonature #soundscape
Episodes
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Gray Catbird Dumatella carolensis
Gray Catbird, Dumetella carolinensis, brief developing song string, clean processed from original parabolic recording followed by the original source family: Mimidae -- Mockingbirds and Thrashers Gray Catbirds are most easily recognizable from their characteristic "mew" like a loud cat, but males...
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The Meadowlark and Sandhill Crane
Sandhill Cranes are on their annual northbound migration. Every year thousands of cranes fly from all points South in North America to the far North. From Florida, Texas, California they migrate thousands of miles on the longest migration of any crane species in the world, with destinations…
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Scaly-breasted Wren, Microcerculus marginatus
Scaly-breasted Wren, Microcerculus marginatus, née Southern Nightingale-wren, more likely heard than seen, this tiny bird spends its time on the floors of humid rainforests, hopping quietly, but singing brightly. Its loud, cheerful song consists of bright, clear, pure tones with seemingly random...
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Summer Thunderstorm 3 of 4 - Powerful cracks of thunder and sheets of rain, birds and insects test the air
A powerful thunderstorm moves in across the swamp. Deep booming thunder drives the insects, birds, and frogs to seek shelter. Sheets of rain whip the trees and understory plants. Hard thunderous cracks mingle with a steady downpour. This is the power of the sky when it meets the Earth.
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Summer Thunderstorm 2 of 4 - Incoming Deep Rolling Thunder gives way to rain
A powerful thunderstorm moves in across the swamp. Deep booming thunder drives the insects, birds, and frogs to seek shelter. Sheets of rain whip the trees and understory plants. Hard thunderous cracks mingle with a steady downpour. This is the power of the sky when it meets the Earth.
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Summer Thunderstorm 1 of 4 - Incoming Ominous Deep Rolling Thunder
A powerful thunderstorm moves in across the swamp. Deep booming thunder drives the insects, birds, and frogs to seek shelter. Sheets of rain whip the trees and understory plants. Hard thunderous cracks mingle with a steady downpour. This is the power of the sky when it meets the Earth.
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Summer Thunderstorm 4 of 4 - in transition, Powerful cracks of thunder, deep rolls, and transients sheets of rain begin to yield back to the singing voices of the swamp
A powerful thunderstorm moves in across the swamp. Deep booming thunder drives the insects, birds, and frogs to seek shelter. Sheets of rain whip the trees and understory plants. Hard thunderous cracks mingle with a steady downpour. This is the power of the sky when it meets the Earth.
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True Frogs - American Bullfrog, invasive colony
TRUE FROGS - AMERICAN BULLFROG - Lithobates catesbeianus A small-but-growing colony chorusing at night in the Promontory Ponds of Seattle's Warren G. Magnuson Park. American Bullfrogs are a destructive invasive species in the western States of the US. That a colony has managed to take up…
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Wood Duck, Female Advertisement Calls (AMNS730521)
A short representative sample of Wood Duck recordings. Wood Ducks, Aix sponsa, are common ducks of swamps, marshes, and other riparian habitats in North America. Being the only duck to nest in tree cavities, they depends on the holes drilled by Pileated Woodpeckers, linking the survival of the...
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Wood Duck, Male Squeals (AMNS126680)
A short representative sample of Wood Duck recordings. Wood Ducks, Aix sponsa, are common ducks of swamps, marshes, and other riparian habitats in North America. Being the only duck to nest in tree cavities, they depends on the holes drilled by Pileated Woodpeckers, linking the survival of the...
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Wood Duck, Female Contact Calls 01 (AMNS163145)
A short representative sample of Wood Duck recordings. Wood Ducks, Aix sponsa, are common ducks of swamps, marshes, and other riparian habitats in North America. Being the only duck to nest in tree cavities, they depends on the holes drilled by Pileated Woodpeckers, linking the survival of the...
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Wood Duck, Female Flight Calls (AMNS387156)
A short representative sample of Wood Duck recordings. Wood Ducks, Aix sponsa, are common ducks of swamps, marshes, and other riparian habitats in North America. Being the only duck to nest in tree cavities, they depends on the holes drilled by Pileated Woodpeckers, linking the survival of the...
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Spotted Towhee 01
Spotted Towhee 01 by Andy "soundeziner" Martin
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Common Nighthawk Courtship Display
Common Nighthawks, Chordeiles minor, circle around in long, swirling loops when courting mates. They call repeatedly with a nasal "peent", interrupted occasionally by a short dive, tucking their wings in to create a spectacular "boom" as the air rushes through their feathers. Being a largely...
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AMBLake - Spring Bayley Lake Raven, Croaks, Beeps, Wing Flaps WIP
AMBLake - Spring Bayley Lake Raven, Croaks, Beeps, Wing Flaps WIP by Andy "soundeziner" Martin
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Bayley Lake Dawning WIP
Bayley Lake Dawning WIP by Andy "soundeziner" Martin
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Swampy Frog Neighborhood, Louisiana
Compulsion Games sent me into Southern swamps and wilderness to record swamp ambiences, insects, frogs, and birds for their upcoming game South of Midnight. This is just a taste of what I got to listen to... Diverse, constant midnight frog voices dominated by the chuckling-quack of Southern…
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Veery
Veery, Catharus Fuscescens Another LBB Thrush: Little Brown Bird Like the Swainson's Thrush, Hermit Thrush, and Wood Thrush, a Veery's drab brown appearance in no way prepares you for the traditional Thrushy flutiness of its song. A down-turned, slightly depressed song in comparison to the raw...
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Red-eyed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo, Vireo olivaceus A common breeding songbird in the woodlands of eastern North America, but found throughout the Pacific Northwest. This delightful little friend was recorded on Summer Solstice, 2024, in Sinlahekin Valley in the Okanogan high country of Washington State in the...
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Lazuli Bunting on Summer Solstice
Appropriately named after the brilliant gemstone Lapis Lazuli, the Lazuli Bunting is a persistent singer throughout it's range during breeding season. Each male has its own distinct song, usually "crystalized" around two years of age. During their first hatching season, young males may babble...
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Lazuli Bunting on Summer Solstice
Appropriately named after the brilliant gemstone Lapis Lazuli, the Lazuli Bunting is a persistent singer throughout it's range during breeding season. Each male has its own distinct song, usually "crystalized" around two years of age. During their first hatching season, young males may babble...
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Eastern Narrow-mouthed Toads
Eastern Narrowmouth Toads, Gastrophryne carolinensis small pod in a dense Louisiana swamp, emitting cute little whines as they search for one another during mating season, 2022-04-14 crickets, birds, and pig frogs in background, stereo decoded form double mid-side original photo is original, on...
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Canyon Wren, Catherpes mexicanus
Canyon Wren, Catherpes mexicanus, 3 performed songs, singing from top of cliff, parabolic single-species recording, timing condensed, but natural pace, rhythm, and dynamics maintained, clean processed for clarity, family: Wrens
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Golden Mantled Howlers at Dawn
I got to spend December 2023 recording in several jungle locations in Costa Rica. The experience was wonderful and inspiring. Most of the trip was spent on Osa Peninsula, in lodges that bordered Parque Nacional Corcovado (Corcovado National Park). With nearly 2.5% of the world's species...
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Costa Rica Midnight Insect Chorus near Corcavado
I had the pleasure of spending the month of December 2023 recording in a few different jungle locations in Costa Rica. The experience was wonderful and inspiring. Most of the trip was spent on Osa Peninsula, in lodges that bordered Parque Nacional Corcovado (Corcovado National Park). The…
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Common Chlorospingus 01
Common Chlorospingus, Chlorospingus flavopectus Family Passerellidae Common Chlorospingus is a chatty bird heard through the cloud forests of Middle America Excerpt from a long soundscape recording from San Gerardo Biological Station in Provincia Guanacaste, Costa Rica, on the morning of…
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Black-faced Solitaire, Myadestes melanops 02
Black-faced Solitaire, Myadestes melanops - song (background: Common Chlorospingus) Family: Turdidae The tonal, metallic voice of the Black-faced Solitaire is heard in dense montane habitats at higher elevations of Costa Rica Excerpt from a long soundscape recording from San Gerardo Biological...
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Black Hawk-eagle, Spizaetus tyrannus
Black Hawk-Eagle, Spizaetus tyrannus, calling from a nearby perch early in the morning of 2023-12-04 Family: Accipitridae The Black Hawk-Eagle is a frequent soarer in the skies of Neotropical American forests Excerpt from a long soundscape recording from San Gerardo Biological Station in…
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Song Wren 01
Song Wren, Cyphorhinus phaeocephalus Family Troglodytidae The mechanical, clunky song of the Song Wren, an inhabitant of lowland tropical rainforests of Middle America that is often seen foraging at higher elevations. Excerpt from a long soundscape recording from San Gerardo Biological Station in...
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ScaleCrested PygmyTyrant 02
Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant, Lophotriccus pileatus Family: Tyrannidae The piecing-voiced Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant ranges in high mountain forests throughout Middle America. Excerpt from a long soundscape recording from San Gerardo Biological Station in Provincia Guanacaste, Costa Rica, on the...
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Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant 01
Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant, Lophotriccus pileatus Family: Tyrannidae The piecing-voiced Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant ranges in high mountain forests throughout Middle America. Excerpt from a long soundscape recording from San Gerardo Biological Station in Provincia Guanacaste, Costa Rica, on the...
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Ochraceous Wren song 02
Ochraceous Wren, Troglodytes ochraceus Family: Troglodytidae Endemic to Costa Rica and Panama, Ochraceous Wrens are often found foraging or singing from mossy trunks and branches Excerpt from a long soundscape recording from San Gerardo Biological Station in Provincia Guanacaste, Costa Rica, on…
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Lineated Foliage-gleaner duet
Lineated Foliage-gleaner, Syndactyla subalaris Duet Lineated Foliage-gleaners are more likely heard than seen in the dense undergrowth of higher elevation cloud forests of Costa Rica. Family Furnariidae Excerpt from a long soundscape recording from San Gerardo Biological Station in Provincia...
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Common Chlorospingus 03
Common Chlorospingus, Chlorospingus flavopectus Family Passerellidae Common Chlorospingus is a chatty bird heard through the cloud forests of Middle America Excerpt from a long soundscape recording from San Gerardo Biological Station in Provincia Guanacaste, Costa Rica, on the morning of…
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Common Chlorospingus 02
Common Chlorospingus, Chlorospingus flavopectus Family Passerellidae Common Chlorospingus is a chatty bird heard through the cloud forests of Middle America Excerpt from a long soundscape recording from San Gerardo Biological Station in Provincia Guanacaste, Costa Rica, on the morning of…
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Black-faced Solitaire, Myadestes melanops 01
Black-faced Solitaire, Myadestes melanops - song (background: Common Chlorospingus) Family: Turdidae The tonal, metallic voice of the Black-faced Solitaire is heard in dense montane habitats at higher elevations of Costa Rica. Excerpt from a long soundscape recording from San Gerardo Biological...
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Spectacled Owl, Pulsatrix perspicillata
Spectacled Owl, Pulsatrix perspicillata calling from a nearby perch in the pre-Dawn Astronomical Twilight of 2023-12-04 Family: Strigidae The softly pulsating song of the Spectacled Owl is a common voice in the nighttime chorus of Neotropical forests throughout Middle America Excerpt from a long...
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Mantled Howler Monkeys in Corcovado morning twilight
Monos Congos, or Mantled Howler Monkeys, waking the jungle in Costa Rica's Parque Nacional Corcovado. Male Mantled Howlers can be heard from several kilometers away, estimated to be loudest vocalization of any terrestrial mammal. With their distinctive grunt and and calls, they are a defining...
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Roosevelt Elk Bull challenge with big clashing fight
Roosevelt Elk (aka Rainforest Elk or Olympic Elk) bulls challenging for social dominance hours after sunset in late September 2023. Elk live in a fairly well-defined, yet fluid, social hierarchy. Only the biggest or strongest bulls earn the right to mate, so the competition during the female's...
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Roosevelt Elk Bugling Chuckle
Roosevelt Elk, or Rainforest Elk or Olympic Elk, selected from a brief trip in late September 2023. Recorded in the Queets and Quinalt Rainforest River Valleys, there's often an unavoidable distant wash of river in the background, so each example is very lightly processed with the unprocessed...
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Roosevelt Elk Bugle
Roosevelt Elk, or Rainforest Elk or Olympic Elk, selected from a brief trip in late September 2023. Recorded in the Queets and Quinalt Rainforest River Valleys, there's often an unavoidable distant wash of river in the background, so each example is very lightly processed with the unprocessed...
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Roosevelt Elk Bugle in the distance
Roosevelt Elk, or Rainforest Elk or Olympic Elk, selected from a brief trip in late September 2023. Recorded in the Queets and Quinalt Rainforest River Valleys, there's often an unavoidable distant wash of river in the background, so each example is very lightly processed with the unprocessed...
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Roosevelt Elk herd movement
Roosevelt Elk, or Rainforest Elk or Olympic Elk, selected from a brief trip in late September 2023. Recorded in the Queets and Quinalt Rainforest River Valleys, there's often an unavoidable distant wash of river in the background, so each example is very lightly processed with the unprocessed...
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Roosevelt Elk Bugle with low chesty roar
Roosevelt Elk, or Rainforest Elk or Olympic Elk, selected from a brief trip in late September 2023. Recorded in the Queets and Quinalt Rainforest River Valleys, there's often an unavoidable distant wash of river in the background, so each example is very lightly processed with the unprocessed...
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Roosevelt Elk Bugle with low chesty roar and some brush movement
Roosevelt Elk, or Rainforest Elk or Olympic Elk, selected from a brief trip in late September 2023. Recorded in the Queets and Quinalt Rainforest River Valleys, there's often an unavoidable distant wash of river in the background, so each example is very lightly processed with the unprocessed...
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Roosevelt Elk Bugle with low chesty roar
Roosevelt Elk, or Rainforest Elk or Olympic Elk, selected from a brief trip in late September 2023. Recorded in the Queets and Quinalt Rainforest River Valleys, there's often an unavoidable distant wash of river in the background, so each example is very lightly processed with the unprocessed...
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Roosevelt Elk Bugle with follow-up Chuckle
Roosevelt Elk, or Rainforest Elk or Olympic Elk, selected from a brief trip in late September 2023. Recorded in the Queets and Quinalt Rainforest River Valleys, there's often an unavoidable distant wash of river in the background, so each example is very lightly processed with the unprocessed...
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Roosevelt Elk Bugle into Chuckle
Roosevelt Elk, or Rainforest Elk or Olympic Elk, selected from a brief trip in late September 2023. Recorded in the Queets and Quinalt Rainforest River Valleys, there's often an unavoidable distant wash of river in the background, so each example is very lightly processed with the unprocessed...
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Queets Rainforest, Vernal Dawn Chorus With Frogs
A recent Spring Dawn in the Queets Rainforest inside the Olympic National Park The air is cool and the light is filtered through a canopy of Sitka Spruce and Douglas Fir, Pacific Chorus Frogs crowded in an ephemeral wet-spot seemingly don't know if it's day or night as they sing around the clock...
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Rain, Heavy, Large Drops on Spruce
Constant heavy rain with large drops under a Spruce canopy
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Field Recordist / Sound designerShhhhh. Listening to nature.To license sounds or for all other inquiries: [email protected]#naturesound #naturesoundscape #fieldrecording #naturesounds #savequiet #listentonature #soundscape
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