Spring Dawn Chorus, Sweet Lake, MI, 5/13/2025 by Jacob Job
The word bayou evokes all kinds of emotions, coated with mystery and eeriness. This recording encapsulates those feelings as you spend a late night next to a southern Louisiana bayou. Above you are the stars in a clear, moonless sky, and all around you are the sounds of insects, frogs, and other nighttime creepies. Sitting out there all alone isn't for the faint of heart, but luckily I did all of the work for you so you can enjoy that experience from the comfort of your home. You can purchase the full recording and others at listeningpointaudio.com
68 tracks recorded in the backcountry of Yellowstone National Park. All recordings were made in May of 2021 and feature sounds from mountain meadows and ponds, ponderosa pina forest, and douglas fir forest. See file list in item description for full details about recordings included in this sound effects pack.
Episode 7: In this episode, we go inside a place altogether different than anything we’ve seen before. An ecosystem ... still intact. Where true wildness and untold value, still remains. In these North Woods that grow at the source if it all, there’s a chance to do things differently. And we …. have a collective decision to make. What can we learn from our wildest remaining place? And will we learn the lessons from the places we’ve seen, and protect what’s here before it goes the way they have? To learn more about the project, visit www.voicesofaflyway.com/explore to start exploring our 6 interactive story maps that feature more of the stories, photos, and videos of the project! Funded by an Explorer grant from National Geographic, our team - a soundscape recordist, an audio producer, and a wildlife photographer - traveled from the Louisiana coastline to the Boundary Waters of Minnesota with the 2019 spring songbird migration. We visited six at-risk ecosystems along the route to uncover: 1. Why each of these delicate ecosystems is so critical to bird migration. 2. The infinite ways that people living in these areas share connections to the natural world. 3. What stands to be lost as these ecosystems vanish?
Episode 6: In the songs and stories of our American heritage, the prairie was a folk hero in and of itself. Where deer and antelope played. The heart of what would become our beloved amber waves of grain. But how many of us have ever seen it for ourselves? This land of American lore? Nearly 100% of Iowa's prairies are gone. In their place, endless rows of corn and soy. We examine the forces at play that wiped this ecosystem off the map, and those that are trying to resurrect it. To learn more about the project, visit www.voicesofaflyway.com/explore to start exploring our 6 interactive story maps that feature more of the stories, photos, and videos of the project! Funded by an Explorer grant from National Geographic, our team - a soundscape recordist, an audio producer, and a wildlife photographer - traveled from the Louisiana coastline to the Boundary Waters of Minnesota with the 2019 spring songbird migration. We visited six at-risk ecosystems along the route to uncover: 1. Why each of these delicate ecosystems is so critical to bird migration. 2. The infinite ways that people living in these areas share connections to the natural world. 3. What stands to be lost as these ecosystems vanish?
Episode 5: In this episode, we head to higher ground to explore the Mississippi Flyway’s biggest urban centers. What does it mean for birds when hundreds of thousands humans congregate on once densely forested landscape? What does it mean for people to have a relationship with the ecosystem when they’re living a life that’s “urbanized”? Turns out, the barriers of access to the natural world are many. We’re looking at how folks, in spite of the odds, are trying to get past them. And what can happen….. if they make it to the other side. To learn more about the project, visit www.voicesofaflyway.com/explore to start exploring our 6 interactive story maps that feature more of the stories, photos, and videos of the project! Funded by an Explorer grant from National Geographic, our team - a soundscape recordist, an audio producer, and a wildlife photographer - traveled from the Louisiana coastline to the Boundary Waters of Minnesota with the 2019 spring songbird migration. We visited six at-risk ecosystems along the route to uncover: 1. Why each of these delicate ecosystems is so critical to bird migration. 2. The infinite ways that people living in these areas share connections to the natural world. 3. What stands to be lost as these ecosystems vanish?
Episode 4: In this episode, we take our first look at modern agriculture on this Flyway. Timber companies in North Louisiana and Eastern Arkansas, like we’ve seen before, clear cut trees all the way off the landscape here, but this time they put something ...entirely different in its place. We’ll get a rare glimpse inside the forgotten forests that covered this place before farm country was farm country. We’ll meet the farm families who became the custodians of a new land of soy and corn. And discover how farming’s evolution into yet another one of America’s billion dollar industries has taken a different kind of toll on community in the heartland. To learn more about the project, visit www.voicesofaflyway.com/explore to start exploring our 6 interactive story maps that feature more of the stories, photos, and videos of the project! Funded by an Explorer grant from National Geographic, our team - a soundscape recordist, an audio producer, and a wildlife photographer - traveled from the Louisiana coastline to the Boundary Waters of Minnesota with the 2019 spring songbird migration. We visited six at-risk ecosystems along the route to uncover: 1. Why each of these delicate ecosystems is so critical to bird migration. 2. The infinite ways that people living in these areas share connections to the natural world. 3. What stands to be lost as these ecosystems vanish?
Episode 3: In this episode, we climb up into the pines of Central Louisiana. We’ve seen on the coast how big industry can end up dominating an ecosystem. Here, we look at three communities embroiled in their own fights to survive. To find out what it means to partner with the big industry on your doorstep, OR, to oppose it head on. To learn more about the project, visit www.voicesofaflyway.com/explore to start exploring our 6 interactive story maps that feature more of the stories, photos, and videos of the project! Funded by an Explorer grant from National Geographic, our team - a soundscape recordist, an audio producer, and a wildlife photographer - traveled from the Louisiana coastline to the Boundary Waters of Minnesota with the 2019 spring songbird migration. We visited six at-risk ecosystems along the route to uncover: 1. Why each of these delicate ecosystems is so critical to bird migration. 2. The infinite ways that people living in these areas share connections to the natural world. 3. What stands to be lost as these ecosystems vanish?
Episode 2: In this episode, our journey on the road begins, with a story of convergence. Many are heading north, some, like us, have headed south, but we’re all meeting for the very first time on the northern shores of the Gulf of Mexico. A coast that is quickly vanishing into the sea. To learn more about the project, visit www.voicesofaflyway.com/explore to start exploring our 6 interactive story maps that feature more of the stories, photos, and videos of the project! Funded by an Explorer grant from National Geographic, our team - a soundscape recordist, an audio producer, and a wildlife photographer - traveled from the Louisiana coastline to the Boundary Waters of Minnesota with the 2019 spring songbird migration. We visited six at-risk ecosystems along the route to uncover: 1. Why each of these delicate ecosystems is so critical to bird migration. 2. The infinite ways that people living in these areas share connections to the natural world. 3. What stands to be lost as these ecosystems vanish?
Episode 1: An introduction to 'Voices of a Flyway', setting the stage for what to expect on our 2.5 month, 2,000 mile journey. To learn more about the project, visit www.voicesofaflyway.com/explore to start exploring our 6 interactive story maps that feature more of the stories, photos, and videos of the project! Funded by an Explorer grant from National Geographic, our team - a soundscape recordist, an audio producer, and a wildlife photographer - traveled from the Louisiana coastline to the Boundary Waters of Minnesota with the 2019 spring songbird migration. We visited six at-risk ecosystems along the route to uncover: 1. Why each of these delicate ecosystems is so critical to bird migration. 2. The infinite ways that people living in these areas share connections to the natural world. 3. What stands to be lost as these ecosystems vanish?