Calm creek sounds, dawn birdsong in Australia - sleep music (1.5 hours) | Nature Track

[@agosiboud5956]

Thank you from this Aussie who sometime just needs some "home sounds" living in Europe. You bring me home just when I need it most.

[@ABCScience]

Hey, it's Ann Jones from Nature Track and How Deadly, and this is a recording I took on the first hot day of spring on Wadawurrung Country, west of Melbourne. Out of bed before the sun, I walked through the bush listening to the last of the nocturnal sounds and found a place on a ridgeline overlooking a creek. There are so many species in this recording - too many to list entirely! But here are a couple and drop me a comment about what YOU hear? 00:00:16 The boobook calls. Listen for a second boobook, who calls at 00:00:48, with a slightly different pitch. In the middle of the night, you can hear the boobooks call right along the creek. 00:01:00 Raucous and loud - a family of kookaburras laughs in chorus. They’re communicating with each other and their neighbouring rivals that they’re awake, and fit, and ready to defend their territory today. 00:07:50 Hear a kangaroo stomping and rustling in the grass and sticks probably heading down the hill to find a cosy spot in the lomandra to sleep for the day. 00:10:20 It’s as if they all knew it was going to be a clear, warm day. Everyone is singing and calling this morning. What a cacophony! 00:21:40 Sulphur-crested cockatoos rarely go anywhere without announcing themselves. 00:23:48 The penetrating, rapid fire pipe of the white throated tree creeper repeats itself. These birds possess special feet that enable them to spend their life bouncing up tree trunks searching for insects, rather than grasping onto horizontal branches. 00:26:50 The sound of several pardalotes can be heard throughout the recording with their repetitive stutter note. Dik-dik… dik-dik. There are both striated and spotted pardalotes in this recording and there are several nests in the area in tiny little hollows in the trees as well as miniscule little burrows dug into the sides of the track and creek. 00:37:30 Ravens. It’s notoriously difficult to tell the difference between raven species’ calls, and I’ve seen both Australasian ravens and little ravens at this spot. But I do think these are little ravens because there are so so so many of them. They’re all up and down the creek line communicating with each other with varying intensity and little ravens have a tendency to gather like this. 00:39:20 This is a shining bronze-cuckoo, a small bird that looks like it has a slightly spiky hairdo and wears a stripey t-shirt. Even though its wings are sort of iridescent, moving from olive green to eggplant purple, this small bird is inconspicuous and stays hidden in trees searching for caterpillars, sex and someone else’s nest to lay in. 00:42:45 The Australian magpie’s ability to sing that many notes at once will always astound me. In this part of Australia, the magpies are white backed magpies and even though they’ve got babies in the area, they’ve not been swoopy. 00:44:00 In these ten seconds I can hear: little raven, two types of pardalotes, red wattlebird, grey shrike-thrush and a baby magpie, common eastern froglets and there’s also a bird that has a descending whistle that I can’t quite place. 00:45:02 Here’s a baby magpie annoying its parents for food. They’re almost always hungry. 00:45:20 A mix of long-billed corellas and sulphur-crested cockatoos in this group. There are really big old holey trees here and I think some of them have several nesting hollows in each. 00:46:45 Extremely high-pitched melodic call of the grey fantail, darting about waggling its tail and scowling. 00:47:45 The repeated single note of the eastern spinebill, which has a long skinny downward turned beak especially for getting delicious liquid from flowers. They dart about everywhere making wing flurries and generally being high on sugar… as far as I can tell. 00:50:20 The grey shrike-thrush is calling. These birds are possibly one of the most common mystery sounds’ we get sent over at Off Track. They look as though they’re a bird drawing in grey scale, with the smoothest looking plumage and a little hook on the end of the beak. They sing like angels from hiding places and can sometimes put on a real performance. 00:52:12 Magpie parents have the patience of a million kindergarten teachers combined. 00:54:20 Mixed in with the gorgeous magpie calling there are grey shrike-thrush, rosella flight calls, olive-backed orioles, cockatoos, ravens, pardalotes, froglets, and at 00:54:04 I *think* one of the magpies flies away. You can hear its wings in the air. 00:56:30 Rosella calls - could be crimson or eastern, though crimson are more likely in the area. And over the next minute they start bell calling to each other which is lovely… except for that cockie making spewing screams over the top of everything. 00:58:55 Is that a brown thornbill? 01:05:20 As the parent gets closer the baby magpie’s calls change? 01:05:20 I haven’t worked out what those low grunts are - some are rhythmic, some are longer. Is it a kookaburra with a sore throat? A baby kookaburra complaining about its accommodation? A possum being angry at a cockatoo? If you have an idea leave a comment! 01:12:20 The call of a pallid cuckoo is like a slowly ascending set of peeps. This is one of those birds which lays its eggs in the nest of another species and leaves them to bring up the kids. 00:18:15 A rufous whistler calling out amongst the din. Listen for relatively quick sliding whistles, almost whip-like, that sometimes are repetitive and other times sound like mosh pit madness with many notes thrown together jumping all over the place. 00:19:26 A juvenile raven is getting its breakfast. That’s the sound of the regurgitated food going down its gullet! And, judging by those extremely quiet ticks, someone has landed very close to the microphone and is moving in the tree. My guess is a rosella, they click and crack in trees all day and it’s often this sound that gives them away rather than their calls. This is followed closely by a pied currawong in the distance. 01:20:52 A superb fairy-wren with an extremely high-pitched call that gets faster like a golf ball circling a hole until it blasts off into manic neighing like the tiniest horse in the world. There’s also, I think, that weird kookaburra calls going on in this patch. I’m not sure. 01:23:21 Hear that kookaburra carrying on? 01:28:30 You can tell that day is well and truly underway and the temperature is rising, because that insect chorus starts pulsating. It also signals the end of the dawn chorus - from boobook to cicada.

[@Boajhdk]

Love this detail!

[@heatherstub]

What a treat! Thank you so much for this soundtrack. I've never been to Australia, but I'd love to go there. One bird I'm so fascinated with is the Liar Bird, and I'd love to hear an entire track of different ones and whether they have varied calls. They are so entertaining!

[@heatherstub]

Update. I did find your soundtrack with the Liar Bird, and I'm looking forward to hearing it. Still, I do wonder if you could still feature different Liar Birds and their songs? I wonder if they have different ones?

[@jadedeacon3597]

amazing- thank you!

[@noellejohnson2845]

Just beautiful! I imagined I was right there, camping, soaking up all of the sights, sounds and smells. Damn we live in a beautiful country! Let's do everything we can to help protect and sustain it 💙

[@justdata3650]

Now living in America this was very peaceful reminding me of where I grew albeit I was on the other side of the country for most of my time in Australia yet the sounds are very familiar.

[@Aussieholden]

Well I live in Australia and it's really nice cause no guns unlike America

[@justdata3650]

@@Aussieholden I would the last person to suggest America didn't have a gun problem but you don't hear guns every day - in fact never most places I lived. That's like American's believing there are kangaroos jumping down the streets of the center of Perth (I had someone ask me about that once here, it was hilarious... believe me, I played with that one for a while). Like any country, it has it's good and bad spots. On the other hand there was a policy in Malaysia that there had to be speakers everywhere because there was to be no place in the country you couldn't hear the Muslim prayer and that awful noise was 5 times a day - that was annoying as h*ll especially for an atheist (me) who will never be okay about religious nuttery being imposed on others.

[@cryptidhunter9901]

@@Aussieholden Owning guns is one thing I like about the USA! The rest of the world was very foolish in allowing their governments to deny their rights to self defense.

[@Aussieholden]

​@cryptidhunter9901 Well, then why school's over there have lockdowns and the ppl have guns

[@BassFish111]

@@AussieholdenAmerica is not full of gun sounds bud

[@RedDeadSakharine]

Finally ambiance with kookaburras! I envy Australians for their awesome nature soundscape. Where I live, all the bird species just produce annoying tweets and whistles and get on my nerves like kids with a pea whistle 😂

[@superiorconcretetownsville6333]

You're doing important work; don't ever stop.

[@mrbanjofrog]

This is where I want to live. Lovely noises!

[@m.a.8335]

Weckt wunderschöne Erinnerungen... 😙 Danke 🙏

[@larryparis925]

Thanks for the map and pinpointing the location.

[@ABCScience]

Pleasure 👍

[@Vijay__JV]

Great sounds from nature.

[@florence3799]

Love these sounds absolutely beautiful ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@katee8147]

Thanks so much - really lovely

[@TradieTrev]

Love your work Ann Jones!

[@catbirdTV]

Epic video

[@angefennell6317]

I love this so much! Thank you.

[@dailydoseofmedicinee]

During an ideal night's sleep, your body has enough time to go through four to five 90-minute cycles that sample different phases of sleep as the night progresses. In general, each cycle moves sequentially through each stage of sleep: wake, light sleep, deep sleep, REM, and repeat.👍

[@pavlosfarsalas6347]

Hello, I was wondering what the copywrite was on this? If I could possibly use this as background for a meditation album I'm working on with flute over the top? Thanks :)

[@brentonguy4772]

Im not associated with abc, nor am I a copyright lawyer. But I believe anything tax payer funded ABC creates goes into public domain.

[@jacarandatheatre]

@@brentonguy4772 No, it doesn't. :)