- In this page you will find a lot of different animal sounds, free to download. All sounds are in the MP3 format. In this page there are all animals sounds from all sections.
- Last night I heard a bird that I thought was a jungle bird. I knew I had heard that sound before, but couldn't remember where, maybe the Jumanji movie? I searched half the day to match the sound and the closest I could find was an Australian kookaburra. Couldn't have been that so I kept searching. It had to have been a Pileated woodpecker.
I have never purposefully meditated in my life, not even once… I understand the how & why, I even read David Lynchs book on the subject… but I have always thought that some of what I do is totally meditative & as it also actually achieves something I figured that I should just do more of it. And that something is recording ambiences. Heres a little montage of locations from the West Coast of the South Island where I've spent lots of time recording:
Pigeon Sound Effect
The last one is a fantastic place to visit during a storm. Punakaiki or Pancake Rocks is a limestone coastal inlet which is riddled with blow holes… Heres a recording of air being blown out of a blow hole – the actual ocean is about 500m away and as a wave surges in, air is forced out through these blow holes… I could well imagine finding this place a few centuries ago & on a stormy night easily believing a Taniwhi lived here!
This track captures the sweet melodic song of the Blackcap. Greenfinches, European Serins and Wood Pigeons can also be heard. Towards the end of the track woodpeckers can be heard drumming from a nearby wood.
Pigeon Sounds Free
Heres a recording of the Devils Basin, a large inlet where the waves just pound in & spray goes flying!
download Wavespray mp3
The fantastic thing about recording ambiences is with good equipment it really is like having supersonic hearing! Many times I have been sitting in bush, with my eyes closed listening to the environment & suddenly almost ducked because I could hear a birds wings swooshing towards me…. only to open my eyes & discover its 20 metres away!
One beautiful recording I made totally by accident was of wood pigeons flying away. I was driving around the countryside with the car window down, listening for any interesting bird calls & I stopped by a tree where I was sure I'd heard one. I quietly got out of the car, set the recorder rolling & went to ID the recording. Just as I side the ‘t' of ‘this will be…' an entire tree full of wood pigeons flew off. I froze & held the mics as still as I could & captured this beautiful sound:
