This recording was taken on one of the walking paths on Vogelinsel (Bird Island) at the Altmühlsee (Lake) in Germany, which is a nature reserve. The microphone was mounted on a stand. On both sides of the path is water, behind there is a small pond and in front of the mic-direction a big lake. All around this, there are other small islands. The usual recording spot was flooded so the microphone was moved to a new spot about 3m away from the old one. Throughout the recording a variety of birds, ducks, and goose sounds can be heard. Some birds came very close to the microphone. Splashing sounds and ducks swimming near the microphone can be heard. At the end of the recording you can hear a beater gnawing on a tree. Those sounds are mixed up with far away traffic sounds from the streets and the village nearby.

This recording was made on a small footbridge on Vogelinsel (engl. bird island) at the Altmühlsee (a lake) in Germany, which is a nature reserve. The microphone was mounted on a stand. On both sides of the bridge is water. All around are other small islands. At the time of recording, there were no other people on the islands. It was a relatively cold day, constant wind can be heard. Throughout the recording, there are a large number of different bird calls audible (esp. ducks, herons, geese,...), sometimes also flapping of wings. Those sounds mix with churchbells from the surrounding villages and distant traffic noise.

This recording was made on a small footbridge on Vogelinsel (engl. bird island) at the Altmühlsee (a lake) in Germany, which is a nature reserve. The microphone was mounted on a stand. On both sides of the bridge is water. All around are other small islands. At the time of recording, there were no other people on the islands. It was a relatively cold day, constant wind can be heard. Throughout the recording, there are a large number of different bird calls audible (esp. ducks, herons, geese,...), sometimes also flapping of wings. Those sounds mix with churchbells from the surrounding villages and distant traffic noise.

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This recording exhibits the silent landscape of the Mojave Desert at night. Very minimal sonic events happen during this recording, the most notable of which being an airplane flying overhead. Sporadically throughout the recording small birds begin chirping and at a couple points near the end of the recording, larger birds flapping their wings become an brief sonic characteristic to the recording.

This recording starts right away with an amazing eagle call. The call repeats every 7-10 seconds. The call is varies in dynamics, is raspy, and may sound a bit like a baying horse sometimes. The microphone was not held steady and bumps and taps can be heard randomly throughout the 2 minute recording. The eagle is not the only bird featured in this recording. There are various squawks and chirps that can be heard alongside the eagle. Also, as in many of the other recordings, a bug flies around the microphone and wind blows. It can be a bit distracting from the eagle call itself.

This recording contains a large, windy soundscape. There are many instances where the microphone was bumped by surrounded objects being blown from a gust of wind. During these gusts of wind there are rich textures from dried shrubbery, creaking twigs and dry branches. This recording also contains sporadic bird calls and chirping, however they mostly remain in the distance. The most notable sonic element to this recording is the consistent sound of the microphone moving due to the winds.

This file contains an interesting pattern of events. Looking at the events that are marked, there is a somewhat repetitive composition to the events in the recording. First there is a plane, the microphone pops, some breezes blow through the scene, the microphone pops again, another plane flies overhead, a strong breeze passes through and then finally we end with another plane making its way into the sonic field. All while there is a fly that seems to linger around in-between each event, somehow not making its presence during the noted events.

This recording is rich with sonic events! An eagle calls ten times throughout the recording, a fly buzzes around the microphone for the duration of the recording, and there is another sort of buzzing right towards the end which sounds much heavier than coming from a fly.

Due to this recording's environment, there is a lot of reverberation from the birds chirping, vehicles passing by and the occasional plant life being brushed together. There are over 10 instances of cars passing by, most of which are large trucks - presumably semis passing through on the highway. Throughout the recording there are a plethora of birds calling and chirping. At one particular point in the recording, no cars or trucks pass for over three minutes and the sounds of the birds thrive inside the cave-like environment this recording was made in.

This recording has on a few sonic events. However, there are some amazing eagle calls that are quite close to the microphone. There is a squawking bird that begins to call around the 7 minute mark and shortly after an eagle gives around 10 screeching calls before flying off in the distance and it stops calling.

This recording contains a plethora of bird calls which are consistent throughout most of the recording. The other sonic events of this recording include sounds of motor vehicles as they pass through the scene, a few instances of insects buzzing by the microphone, and winds occasionally blowing around twigs and dried shrubbery.

There are only a few events during this recording. For about 25 minutes there is sprinkler that moves around the scene and at some points the microphone clips from the sprinkler's water. The majority of the recording is wind blowing throughout the scene. At some points the breezes are stronger than at other points, yet wind is consistently present. The microphone either clips or pops a number of times during the recording and all of which have been marked.

This recording contains a large sample of winds blowing through Death Valley. During the first half hour of the recording the microphone clips a large number of times due to heavy winds blowing over the microphone. An interesting sound in this recording is what sounds to be a sprinkler spraying consistently throughout the recording and at one point clips the microphone due to its proximity. As the sprinkler sprayers further away, the sound starts to blend in to the sound of the winds blowing around some dried up shrubbery. It turns into a wonderful blend of white noise-esque frequencies engulfing the sonic environment.

This recording is mostly bugs (i.e. crickets and cicadas) and a faint sound of water. There are occasional bird chirps and squeaks as well as what sounds like little water droplets landing near the microphone.

This recording mostly consists of distant highway noises. There are occasional bugs that buzz by and bird calls and what seems to be a jet or airplane near the end of the recording.

This recording consists of occasional bird call, bugs buzzing near the microphone, human movement, and a near constant hum of the freeway. We hear crows and doves in the recording as well as one plane flying over head. There doesn't seem to be much breeze or any breeze at all and the human movements in the recording consists of a man's voice, crunching on the gravel, footsteps, and stones being tossed.

This recording contains sounds equally from nature and humans. There are four instances when a car will drive right next to microphone and zoom past from the right channel to the left. Essentially this entire 2 hour recording has ambience of vehicles driving along the freeways in the distance as well as consistent sounds of bird calls. There are a few instances where a squawking bird begins calling quite close to the microphone and the timbre of its voice is very clear. The rest of the bird calls are are a little off in the distance and only vary between birds once about three times.

This recording contains a long sample of running water falling from a small creek. A few times in the recording what seems to be a very, very gentle breeze causes the stream to flow differently for a brief moment, otherwise the stream of the creek is consistent throughout the recording. Another sonic characteristic to this recording are a few crickets chirping. The crickets have been noted accordingly.

This recording is very silent. There sounds that occur throughout the recording are far into the distance. These sounds include consisted chirping of crickets from about the 13 minute mark until the end of the recording; cars passing along the freeway system; bird calls and the sounds of airplanes passing overhead.

This file contains a few interesting events. As stated in the previous recording, this recording also contains the same electronic beeping in intervals of 25 seconds. There are some interesting bird calls, one sounding similar to a seagull’s caw, and one loud squawking bird call. From about the 9:30 minute mark until the end of the recording there is a very gradual build up of crickets chirping together. It starts with just one until the 15:30 minute mark.

This file does not contain too many major events. There are continuous winds, sporadic bird calls and microphone pops throughout the recording. Starting at about the 14 minute mark, there is an electronic beeping sound that could be coming from a walkie talkie, mobile cell phone or other electronic device. The sound repeats every 25 seconds for the remainder of the recording. There is also a fly that makes plenty of appearances throughout the recording.

This file contains consisted winds with birds calling and singing throughout the duration of the recording. The winds vary in strength and proximity for the first 20 minutes of the recording while the last five minutes the winds become more tame.

This file contains frequent reoccurring events that mostly contain bird calls or notably strong winds. There are consistent winds present throughout the recording, as well as insects flying around the microphones. The author describes the recording at about the 1 minute mark stating that the GPS is marked Mojave 16, 05, 2014. It is Friday, May 16th at 6:36PM. According the the description there are lots of little bugs flying all over the place. Someone describes that it is overcast and the sun is going to set in about an hour. The recording was made in ambisonic A format on channels 1 - 4 and MS microphones recording on channels 5 and 6. The gain on the sound field microphone is set at 53db, the gain on the MS pair is also set at 53db and center. These recordings are hoping to document the sounds of coyotes.

This recording contains a wind sound scape with plenty of wildlife activity. Sporadically throughout, new birds chime in to the recording and gives their unique calls for a few minutes at a time. Needless to say the wind overpowers most of the bird calls as most of the birds are usually off in to the distance. There a couple of instances in where wildlife movement becomes audible. This events are quite brief however, but they depict the dry dessert landscape.

The large majority of sonic activity in this recording comes from wind. At only a couple of instances in the recording do other sounds occur, i.e bird calls, wildlife movement. Rather, the recording as a whole documents are large wind soundscape. There are also tiny clicks and pops from the microphone slightly moving around on the tripod throughout the recording. The sounds are very faint.

This recording includes many different animal and insect sounds from birds and frogs to crickets and other small critters. There is a steady wind throughout the recording as well as the sounds of cars and planes. The very end of the recording is marked with the time, 9:09AM

This recording is very uneventful. The sound of wind, cars, birds and squeaking remain constant throughout the entire recording. There is a popping sound that begins at about 5 minutes and is random until the end of the recording. Also, a bug seems to be very interested in the microphone and makes frequent visits. There are some unique bird calls that I have noted that stand out from the others.

This recording was done at 7:57 AM on March 16, 2014. The recording features aircraft and birds. The aircraft is not marked in time because it is consistent throughout the entire track. It turns into a dull noise that blankets the recording. There are also birds chirping for a majority of the recording, though they may be faint against wind or aircraft.

This recording contains a massive sample of wind fluctuating through the landscape and cacti. There are some very strong winds which cause the microphone to clip at times, and there also some very peaceful wind samples that blow around dried leaves, sticks and cacti spines creating an interesting sonic texture. There are also a few instances about halfway through the recording when a wonderful songbird belts out a few tunes.

This recording contains a large sample of winds blowing through the organ pipe cacti. Along with the variation of wind sounds are the sounds of dried shrubbery and cacti spines rustling together and blowing around in the winds, creating a light, whispering blanket of texture. The winds vary in strength during the recording and at one point almost clip the microphone. At at any given time in the recording there are birds calling and chirping in the background of the scene. They remain present throughout the recording, although their sounds are not a focus of this particular recording.

This recording has consistent wind, bugs, and birds, but has a lot of unique bird calls throughout the entire piece.

This recording contains a steady amount of wind and consistent bird chirping throughout the entire recording. About every 30 seconds or so, a bug flies around the microphone.

This recording is predominately heavy winds and the sound of footsteps on gravel. There are some small spots where birds are chirping, people are talking, and a car is moving.

This track was recorded on March 15, 2014 at 1:27 PM with an ambisonic mic in the middle of an organ pipe cactus. This is a recording in ambisonic A format and MS Schoeps. This recording is mostly wind with faint bird chirping scattered throughout. There is human movement and talking at the beginning as the author sets the scene. There are both large gusts of wind and deep rumbles of wind that sound as if it is thunder, or wind brushing against a microphone.

This file contains a large sample of the wind whistling through Organ Pipe Cacti. There are a plethora of instances when the microphone clips from strong winds passing through, all of which have be tagged microphone clipping. There are also some brief instances of birds calling and chirping in the distance.

At virtually any point in this recording one can scrub to a period in the file, listen for a few moments and here lush winds blowing across the landscape; dried leaves and shrubbery being pushed along the landscape; and various bird calls. There are two specific instances where the sonic environment was particularly pleasing and have been been annotated as so. There are also a couple of instances where some interesting wildlife movement is audible. At the 55 minute mark, there is a heavy flapping sound coming from, presumably, a bird taking flight from the recording location. The other is of a humming bird-esque fluttering that occurs around the 1 hour, 5 minute mark. The last notable event is wildlife movement from what could possibly be a rodent or other small animal. At the 1:35:04 mark the critter moves from the left channel to about the middle and then a few moments later quickly scurries from the right channel to the far left.

This recording contains many samples of wildlife activity. Such as birds chipping, birds fluttering their wings, and birds hopping around on the ground pecking at the floor. There are also many samples of wind and plant life moving in the wind; i.e. shrubbery brushing against one another, dried sticks and leaves being pushed around on the floor. At virtually any point in the recording these sounds are present after a few moments of listening. The more prevalent events, or sections, of these sonic events have been noted accordingly.

This recording contains more samples of bird calls and wildlife activity. There is a great session between a few birds calling back and forth between one another creating a large spacial environment due to their proximity. Other than this event, the only other instance is a vehicle drives through the scene at about the 8 minute mark.

This file contains a couple minutes of birds chirping at the beginning and at about the 2:20 mark the author documents the recording by stating the time, 7:59AM, and that the sun has come up. The remainder of the recording are all sounds of human movements through the landscape.

This file contains quite a few events of bird calls. No movement from animals was audible, but there are some great samples of two squawking birds calling to one another. A notable sound is at the 23:12 mark when it sounds like a bird is fluttering to get up and start flying while at the same time creating an interesting phasing effect.

This file contains some very brief, almost inaudible sounds coming from a little critter on a rock moving around. Something very peculiar about this recording is that there are continuous, little clicks that are coming form what seems to be the microphone. They are all in the left channel on the stereo recording and they happen continuously (at least every thirty seconds) from about the 10:30 minute mark until the end of the recording.

This file contains only a brief moment of movement form some kind of animal or small bird. It sounds almost like someone just took one step. Other than this instance the rest of the recording only has a couple microphone pops.

This recording has a significantly more events that the previous recording. The high pitched chirping, previously noted, is much more present in a few events in this file. There are also a couple instances of distant bird calls and some quite interesting movement sounds from rodents on the floor of the biosphere. The movements and animal calls are still very quiet and require a few extra dB before they become decently audible with headphones.

This file only contains a couple, very subtle events. Very far off in the distance around the 12:24 mark you can hear a truck or some sort of automobile driving by. Then at around the 13:53 mark there is a very small chirping sound from an animal or a bird of some sort. The sound is hardly noticeable unless the gain is cranked an extra 6db. The same goes for the last event that happens around the 17:24 mark. There are some birds, perhaps just one bird, calling very, very far in the distance.

There are two main events in this file. There is an airplane that passes overhead, entering at the :40 second mark and exiting around the 3:30 mark. The second major event is a large gust of wind that passes through the scene. This breeze moves the shrubbery around and the leaves and sticks brushing against each other become subtlety audible.

This recording contains lots and lots of wind samples. There are many instances where the microphone clips from the wind blowing through the microphone. Yet, there is an abundance of instances with animal movement. Form the 21 minute mark until the very end of the recording, there is consistent movement within shrubbery and dried leaves around the scene. A lot of crunching sticks and leaves are clearly audible between 43 and 45 minute mark.

This file contains short instances when a metal gate clanks together, or squeaks just a little bit. At two points it sounds like an airplane is passing by very, very far away; it is hard to differentiate the sound of the planes with large gusts of wind.

The bulk of the recording is ambience of talkative birds in the distance. The first few seconds and last few seconds are sounds of setting up and then moving to stop the recording, while the rest of the recording is fairly silent.

This file contains a steady ambience of talking birds in the distance. There are a few instances where the microphone is bumped and/or pops as well as some instances of brief shuffling or rummaging. One notable instance of a bird call is at the 2:20 mark. A bird is relatively close to the microphone and has a distinct screeching call. The bird only cries out twice within a 10 second time span.

This recording contains a good deal of wildlife activity. Virtually the entire 20 minute recording documents birds singing and calling. New bird calls come and go throughout the recording, but there are two noticeably new calls from close by birds at the 6:58 and 8:55 mark. Stunningly, at the 16:17 mark a goose becomes clearly audible in the recording and gives quite a few calls before exiting the scene.

This file does not contain much. It consists mostly of movement and rummaging with a brief view of the birds singing in the field at the end of the recording.

This file does not contain much activity. For a brief moment there is a nice soundscape of the birds in the background, however other than those few seconds, this file contains mostly the sounds of someone moving around.

This file contains an abundance of wildlife activity. The beginning 2.5 minutes there is a truck passing through the scene and clears the sonic environment at about the 2:27 mark. The author of the recording notes that ambisonics were being recorded on channels 1-4 and MS on channels 5-6 (although the files in this database have been split). From about the 5:45 mark to about the 9:45 mark (about 4 minutes) there are continuous bird calls with very slight variation from the birds; most calls are very distant. There is a noticeable, but gradual, change in the calls between a few birds starting at the 2:25 mark until about the 5:45 mark. After this point, the bird that was calling closer to microphone quiets down and is not present in the space from then on. A notable point in the recording is the entrance of a crow-sounding bird that comes in around the 10:13 mark in the recording. The timbre of the crow's voice and its call is noticeably different from the rest of the birds in this scene.

This file contains samples of other humans talking, small bird calls, and a few breezes of wind. Presumably the voices are from hikers passing by in the distance, seemingly only a female voice.

This recording is predominately a wind sound scape. There are a few breezes that graze the microphone; a gust of wind that creates a deep bass tone; and towards the end of the recording there are a few birds chirping in the distance.

This was recorded at 6:18 PM on 9 March as the sun was going down. The file contains a good amount of birds (and at some points insects) chirping and calling. Almost all of the bird sounds are very far off in the distance and have a small characteristics to their timbre. However, the bird sounds do move around in the stereo field at some points and create an interesting sense of space. There are also some nice gusts of wind throughout the recording as well as very, very faint sounds of cars that are virtually inaudible without proper headphones.

This is a very noisy recording. There are many odd sounds such as clacking, birds coo-ing, whistles, and a pesky bug that flies around consistently throughout the entire recording. At the end of the recording, there is a description of the scene and that the time is 12:51 PM.

This recording contains consist wind soundscape. There are instances of insects chirping as well as a large section of bird calls. Unfortunately there are no coyotes to be heard.