TRUE FROGS - AMERICAN BULLFROG - Lithobates catesbeianus

A small-but-growing colony chorusing at night in the Promontory Ponds of Seattle's Warren G. Magnuson Park. American Bullfrogs are a destructive invasive species in the western States of the US. That a colony has managed to take up residence and thrive in an urban nature preserve is highly alarming.

The focus is shifting, moving between individual frogs in the foreground, with others audible in the background between roars. It's frustrating dealing with Bullfrogs. I love them. It's not their fault they were introduced to the Western States. They just live their lives as they come. Their ecological impact is significant, affecting population numbers of entire species of native frogs and fishes.

image credit: "Bullfrog_Nick Myatt 02" by Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0. To view the terms, visit creativecommons.org/publicdomain/ma…/?ref=openverse.

A short representative sample of Wood Duck recordings. Wood Ducks, Aix sponsa, are common ducks of swamps, marshes, and other riparian habitats in North America. Being the only duck to nest in tree cavities, they depends on the holes drilled by Pileated Woodpeckers, linking the survival of the woodpecker to the success of the duck to best and breed.

Noisy and loud, females have multiple calls but their signature all-purpose contact call "ooo-eek" is the most familiar, and once heard it's hard to forget..

These birds are low-flyers and often the last to return home at dusk after a day of dispersed foraging. I've been in swamps where it seemed like I was being buzzed by an endless stream of screeching Wood Ducks, flying by mere feet above my head.

Each recording here is in two parts -- the first is isolated, clean, and ready for implementation in a media project. The latter half is the sound in its musty, noisy original state.

Wood Ducks move around and do not call continuously. Calls are collected and strung together in order-of-occurrence, grouped by individual, then by like-type.

Read more here: https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/wooduc/cur/introduction

All sound is originally recorded by me.

The image is used by cc: "Male Wood Duck" by U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Northeast Region is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0. To view the terms, visit https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/?ref=openverse

I record wildlife and soundscapes for living! Birds are one of my specialties, along with frogs and insects. If you would like to license something you hear on my SoundCloud, inquire about other recordings in my deep library, or discuss recording something specific, send me a message (link in bio). Heck, if you just want to chat about nature sounds and birds, feel free to send me a message!

A short representative sample of Wood Duck recordings. Wood Ducks, Aix sponsa, are common ducks of swamps, marshes, and other riparian habitats in North America. Being the only duck to nest in tree cavities, they depends on the holes drilled by Pileated Woodpeckers, linking the survival of the woodpecker to the success of the duck to best and breed.

Noisy and loud, females have multiple calls but their signature all-purpose contact call "ooo-eek" is the most familiar, and once heard it's hard to forget..

These birds are low-flyers and often the last to return home at dusk after a day of dispersed foraging. I've been in swamps where it seemed like I was being buzzed by an endless stream of screeching Wood Ducks, flying by mere feet above my head.

Each recording here is in two parts -- the first is isolated, clean, and ready for implementation in a media project. The latter half is the sound in its musty, noisy original state.

Wood Ducks move around and do not call continuously. Calls are collected and strung together in order-of-occurrence, grouped by individual, then by like-type.

Read more here: https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/wooduc/cur/introduction

All sound is originally recorded by me.

The image is used by cc: "Male Wood Duck" by U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Northeast Region is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0. To view the terms, visit https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/?ref=openverse

I record wildlife and soundscapes for living! Birds are one of my specialties, along with frogs and insects. If you would like to license something you hear on my SoundCloud, inquire about other recordings in my deep library, or discuss recording something specific, send me a message (link in bio). Heck, if you just want to chat about nature sounds and birds, feel free to send me a message!

A short representative sample of Wood Duck recordings. Wood Ducks, Aix sponsa, are common ducks of swamps, marshes, and other riparian habitats in North America. Being the only duck to nest in tree cavities, they depends on the holes drilled by Pileated Woodpeckers, linking the survival of the woodpecker to the success of the duck to best and breed.

Noisy and loud, females have multiple calls but their signature all-purpose contact call "ooo-eek" is the most familiar, and once heard it's hard to forget..

These birds are low-flyers and often the last to return home at dusk after a day of dispersed foraging. I've been in swamps where it seemed like I was being buzzed by an endless stream of screeching Wood Ducks, flying by mere feet above my head.

Each recording here is in two parts -- the first is isolated, clean, and ready for implementation in a media project. The latter half is the sound in its musty, noisy original state.

Wood Ducks move around and do not call continuously. Calls are collected and strung together in order-of-occurrence, grouped by individual, then by like-type.

Read more here: https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/wooduc/cur/introduction

All sound is originally recorded by me.

The image is used by cc: "Male Wood Duck" by U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Northeast Region is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0. To view the terms, visit https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/?ref=openverse

I record wildlife and soundscapes for living! Birds are one of my specialties, along with frogs and insects. If you would like to license something you hear on my SoundCloud, inquire about other recordings in my deep library, or discuss recording something specific, send me a message (link in bio). Heck, if you just want to chat about nature sounds and birds, feel free to send me a message!

A short representative sample of Wood Duck recordings. Wood Ducks, Aix sponsa, are common ducks of swamps, marshes, and other riparian habitats in North America. Being the only duck to nest in tree cavities, they depends on the holes drilled by Pileated Woodpeckers, linking the survival of the woodpecker to the success of the duck to best and breed.

Noisy and loud, females have multiple calls but their signature all-purpose contact call "ooo-eek" is the most familiar, and once heard it's hard to forget..

These birds are low-flyers and often the last to return home at dusk after a day of dispersed foraging. I've been in swamps where it seemed like I was being buzzed by an endless stream of screeching Wood Ducks, flying by mere feet above my head.

Each recording here is in two parts -- the first is isolated, clean, and ready for implementation in a media project. The latter half is the sound in its musty, noisy original state.

Wood Ducks move around and do not call continuously. Calls are collected and strung together in order-of-occurrence, grouped by individual, then by like-type.

Read more here: https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/wooduc/cur/introduction

All sound is originally recorded by me.

The image is used by cc: "Male Wood Duck" by U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Northeast Region is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0. To view the terms, visit https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/?ref=openverse

I record wildlife and soundscapes for living! Birds are one of my specialties, along with frogs and insects. If you would like to license something you hear on my SoundCloud, inquire about other recordings in my deep library, or discuss recording something specific, send me a message (link in bio). Heck, if you just want to chat about nature sounds and birds, feel free to send me a message!

Spotted Towhee 01 by Andy "soundeziner" Martin

Common Nighthawks, Chordeiles minor, circle around in long, swirling loops when courting mates. They call repeatedly with a nasal "peent", interrupted occasionally by a short dive, tucking their wings in to create a spectacular "boom" as the air rushes through their feathers. Being a largely crepuscular behavior, it is more often heard rather than seen. It much of rural North America this is a twilight sound of early Dawn and late Dusk.

In one of my favorite places to record, the arid Seep Lakes of Central Washington, the Nighthawks cruise low, often below the lips of the coulees that dot the region. Their booms and calls echo off the canyon walls. One evening, on a "rooftop coulee" (a coulee on a stack), this little bird buzzed me for over an hour. Here's just a tiny snippet.

Something I hadn't noticed until recently is the call they make at the start of a dive is staccato, slightly punctuated, as if they're saying "Hey! Lookitthis!" or maybe "Wheee!"

Also on #YouTube Nighthawk On TheRooftop

https://youtu.be/dJEsOaGgPBI where you can see fancy spectrogram squiggles and a picture of the coulee

Image credit:

"Common nighthawk at Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge Wyoming" by USFWS Mountain Prairie is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0. To view the terms, visit https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/?ref=openverse.

AMBLake - Spring Bayley Lake Raven, Croaks, Beeps, Wing Flaps WIP by Andy "soundeziner" Martin

Bayley Lake Dawning WIP by Andy "soundeziner" Martin

Compulsion Games sent me into Southern swamps and wilderness to record swamp ambiences, insects, frogs, and birds for their upcoming game South of Midnight. This is just a taste of what I got to listen to...

Diverse, constant midnight frog voices dominated by the chuckling-quack of Southern Leopard Frogs and creaking ratchet of Cajun Chorus Frogs with background Spring Peepers.

Amazingly, this is just an excerpt from a 10 hour non-stop giggling frog fest.