Favorite Sounds – Australia

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Hi this is Jim Metzner, host and producer of Pulse of the Planet. All this month, we’re celebrating the broadcast of our 5000 program. We often feature sounds on Pulse of the Planet, and here are a few of my favorites from our archive.
This is a dawn chorus recorded in Australia, on the south coast about three hours west of Melbourne, in the Grampians National Park. In the meadow nearby, listening with me to the incredible variety of birdsong, was a group of kangagoos. You can’t hear them, but they’re present.

Grampians dawn chorus

Here’s an iconic Australian animal that you can hear especially at night. See if you can guess what it is.

That’s the call of a male Koala, recorded on St. Bees Island in Queensland, Australia. Like many calls in the animal kingdom, biologists think they’re for territoriality and mating. We’d like to hear what some of your favorite sounds are. Send an mp3 of up to one minute of your sound, with a brief explanation of what the sound is to jim@pulseoftheplanet.org. We’ll showcase the sounds online and select a few to broadcast on a future program. If you don’t have a recording of your favorite sound, tell us what it is and we’ll see if we can find it in our archives. The address again is Jim at pulseoftheplanet.org. Celebrating our 5000 broadcast Pulse of the Planet is made possible by the NSF. I’m Jim Metzner.

Favorite Sounds - Australia

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Air Date:04/04/2011
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Hi this is Jim Metzner, host and producer of Pulse of the Planet. All this month, we're celebrating the broadcast of our 5000 program. We often feature sounds on Pulse of the Planet, and here are a few of my favorites from our archive.
This is a dawn chorus recorded in Australia, on the south coast about three hours west of Melbourne, in the Grampians National Park. In the meadow nearby, listening with me to the incredible variety of birdsong, was a group of kangagoos. You can't hear them, but they're present.

Grampians dawn chorus

Here's an iconic Australian animal that you can hear especially at night. See if you can guess what it is.

That's the call of a male Koala, recorded on St. Bees Island in Queensland, Australia. Like many calls in the animal kingdom, biologists think they're for territoriality and mating. We'd like to hear what some of your favorite sounds are. Send an mp3 of up to one minute of your sound, with a brief explanation of what the sound is to jim@pulseoftheplanet.org. We'll showcase the sounds online and select a few to broadcast on a future program. If you don't have a recording of your favorite sound, tell us what it is and we'll see if we can find it in our archives. The address again is Jim at pulseoftheplanet.org. Celebrating our 5000 broadcast Pulse of the Planet is made possible by the NSF. I'm Jim Metzner.