Wildlife Sounds & Ambient Soundscapes Samples
A dawn chorus of birds including cuckoos
Szumin, Poland
Habitat: Forest near Bug River
Audio Format: Stereo, A format ambisonics
Duration: 03:25
Year: 2025 © All rights reserved
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Szumin, Poland
Habitat: Forest near Bug River
Audio Format: Stereo, A format ambisonics
Duration: 03:25
Year: 2025 © All rights reserved
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Great Barred Frog at Mary Cairncross
Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve, Jinibara Country, Queensland, Australia
Habitat: Creek
Audio Format: Stereo
Duration: 01:59
Year: 2024 © All rights reserved
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Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve, Jinibara Country, Queensland, Australia
Habitat: Creek
Audio Format: Stereo
Duration: 01:59
Year: 2024 © All rights reserved
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Striped Marsh Frog at Maroochy Wetlands
Maroochy Wetlands Sanctuary, Kabi Kabi Country, Queensland, Australia
Habitat: Wetlands
Audio Format: Stereo
Duration: 01:50
Year: 2024 © All rights reserved
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Maroochy Wetlands Sanctuary, Kabi Kabi Country, Queensland, Australia
Habitat: Wetlands
Audio Format: Stereo
Duration: 01:50
Year: 2024 © All rights reserved
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Striped Marsh Frog at Mary Cairncross
Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve, Jinibara Country, Queensland, Australia
Habitat: Pond
Audio Format: Stereo
Duration: 01:44
Year: 2024 © All rights reserved
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Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve, Jinibara Country, Queensland, Australia
Habitat: Pond
Audio Format: Stereo
Duration: 01:44
Year: 2024 © All rights reserved
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Spectacled Flying Foxes in the Daintree Rainforest
Cape Tribulation, Eastern Kuku Yalanji Country, Queensland, Australia
Habitat: Tropical Rainforest
Audio Format: Stereo
Duration: 03:39
Year: 2024 © All rights reserved
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Cape Tribulation, Eastern Kuku Yalanji Country, Queensland, Australia
Habitat: Tropical Rainforest
Audio Format: Stereo
Duration: 03:39
Year: 2024 © All rights reserved
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Humpback Whales and Bottlenose Dolphins
Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
Habitat: Ocean
Audio Format: Stereo
Duration: 02:24
Year: 2024 © All rights reserved
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Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
Habitat: Ocean
Audio Format: Stereo
Duration: 02:24
Year: 2024 © All rights reserved
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Hippos in the Limpopo River at Dawn
Mmabolela Reserve, Limpopo, South Africa
Habitat: River
Audio Format: Stereo
Duration: 07:14
Year: 2017 © All rights reserved
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Mmabolela Reserve, Limpopo, South Africa
Habitat: River
Audio Format: Stereo
Duration: 07:14
Year: 2017 © All rights reserved
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Dawn Chorus on a bridge in Limpopo
Mmabolela Reserve, Limpopo, South Africa
Habitat: Riverside
Audio Format: Stereo
Duration: 04:55
Year: 2017 © All rights reserved
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Mmabolela Reserve, Limpopo, South Africa
Habitat: Riverside
Audio Format: Stereo
Duration: 04:55
Year: 2017 © All rights reserved
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Soundscape Compositions
Nocturnal Wanderings, Soundscape Composition
Audio Format: Stereo / B Format, 3rd order ambisonics
Recording Location: Queensland, Australia
Duration: 05:33
Year: 2025 © All rights reserved
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In 2024, Nikki spent six months exploring nocturnal soundscapes across three UNESCO biosphere reserve sites in Queensland, Australia as part of the Refinery Natural Ecologies Artist Residency. Australia is home to between 7-10% of all species on Earth and a great number of these are nocturnal. This piece reveals sounds of nocturnal wildlife that largely go unheard throughout the night, highlighting the role sound can play in enhancing ecological awareness and monitoring biodiversity of nocturnal species.
Audio Format: Stereo / B Format, 3rd order ambisonics
Recording Location: Queensland, Australia
Duration: 05:33
Year: 2025 © All rights reserved
Download formats: wav, mp3 (48kHZ/24bit)
In 2024, Nikki spent six months exploring nocturnal soundscapes across three UNESCO biosphere reserve sites in Queensland, Australia as part of the Refinery Natural Ecologies Artist Residency. Australia is home to between 7-10% of all species on Earth and a great number of these are nocturnal. This piece reveals sounds of nocturnal wildlife that largely go unheard throughout the night, highlighting the role sound can play in enhancing ecological awareness and monitoring biodiversity of nocturnal species.
Chiroptera, Soundscape Composition
Audio Format: Stereo
Recording Location: Sao Miguel, Azores
Duration: 06:39
Year: 2024 © All rights reserved
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Over 500 species of plants worldwide rely on bats for pollination, a fact that is not widely known. This work looks to foster a deeper connection with the places we inhabit and the other species that occupy these spaces. It comments on the importance of bats as a species and the impact of this species on humans and the health of the planet.
Winner of the Wildlife Sound Recording Society 2024 competition in the Creative Class.
Audio Format: Stereo
Recording Location: Sao Miguel, Azores
Duration: 06:39
Year: 2024 © All rights reserved
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Over 500 species of plants worldwide rely on bats for pollination, a fact that is not widely known. This work looks to foster a deeper connection with the places we inhabit and the other species that occupy these spaces. It comments on the importance of bats as a species and the impact of this species on humans and the health of the planet.
Winner of the Wildlife Sound Recording Society 2024 competition in the Creative Class.
Nocturnal Insights, Soundscape Composition
Audio Format: Stereo
Recording Location: Dorset, Birmingham, Hertfordshire
Duration: 05:37
Year: 2021 © All rights reserved
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Nocturnal Insights uses crepuscular and nocturnal recordings in order to document habits and patterns in the behaviour of nocturnal wildlife in the UK and to capture sounds that are usually unheard throughout the night. It evokes a sense of darkness, loneliness and at times, a melancholic state, reflecting the effects of extinction, light pollution and the man-made world on the natural environment and ecosystem.
Honourable Mention for the Sound of the Year Awards 2020 and nominated for an Ivor Novello Composers Award in the Sound Art category 2021.
Audio Format: Stereo
Recording Location: Dorset, Birmingham, Hertfordshire
Duration: 05:37
Year: 2021 © All rights reserved
Download formats: wav, mp3 (48kHZ/24bit)
Nocturnal Insights uses crepuscular and nocturnal recordings in order to document habits and patterns in the behaviour of nocturnal wildlife in the UK and to capture sounds that are usually unheard throughout the night. It evokes a sense of darkness, loneliness and at times, a melancholic state, reflecting the effects of extinction, light pollution and the man-made world on the natural environment and ecosystem.
Honourable Mention for the Sound of the Year Awards 2020 and nominated for an Ivor Novello Composers Award in the Sound Art category 2021.
Mmabolela, Soundscape Composition
Audio Format: Stereo / B Format, 3rd order ambisonics
Recording Location: Limpopo, South Africa
Duration: 12:35
Year: 2019 © All rights reserved
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From the palm-strewn banks of the Limpopo River to the dark depths of the Hippo Pool, Mmabolela transports the listener through the soundscapes of this remote location in South Africa. A series of interweaving ‘snap-shots’ and constructed realities based upon the many recording locations visited during the 2017 Sonic Mmabolela residency transport the listener to this hyperreal time and place.
Nominated for the Phonurgia Nova Awards in Field Recording/Soundscapes 2020.
Audio Format: Stereo / B Format, 3rd order ambisonics
Recording Location: Limpopo, South Africa
Duration: 12:35
Year: 2019 © All rights reserved
Download formats: wav, mp3 (48kHZ/24bit)
From the palm-strewn banks of the Limpopo River to the dark depths of the Hippo Pool, Mmabolela transports the listener through the soundscapes of this remote location in South Africa. A series of interweaving ‘snap-shots’ and constructed realities based upon the many recording locations visited during the 2017 Sonic Mmabolela residency transport the listener to this hyperreal time and place.
Nominated for the Phonurgia Nova Awards in Field Recording/Soundscapes 2020.