Top Sounds from Sounds of the Forest
Listen to some of the most popular sounds submitted to Sounds of the Forest - from across the UK and all corners of the world.
From the UK
Birds at Feanedock, Leicestershire, England
Recorded by Chris Conway. "Spring 2020 | Early Lockdown | My First Cuckoo This Year".
Coldeast Woodland, Hampshire, England
Recorded by Alison Faulks. "6.10 am sunny and the promise of a warm day"
Broomfield Common, Somerset, England
Recorded by Becky Wright. "6.30am recording"
Beddgelert, Snowdownia, Wales
Recorded by Graham Wilson. "Recorded from a small bridge the day after heavy rainfall - water is cascading through the Beddgelert forest rivers from Moel Hebog above, before we proceed along a crushed slate path heard underfoot."
The Broads National Park, Suffolk, England
Recorded by Sarah.
Park Wood, Western Malvern, Worcestershire
Recorded by Mike Rucinski. "Park Wood, night into dawn recording, 04:52AM , May 13th 2020, a clear, still morning."
Wester Longvine Cottages, Invergordon, Scotland
Recorded by Mike Day. "7:57pm on 14th June 2020"
Castletown, Shelley Hill, Scotland
Recorded by Domen Finzgar. "Shelley Hill forest in the rain, 4. 7. 2020, 13:00"
Eden Project - Dawn chorus
Recorded by Hannah Bullock. "17 June 2020, 4.30am."
Oakfield Glen, Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland
Recorded by Becky Wright. "6.30am recording"
From across the world
From Madagascar to Malaysia, Ghana to Ecuador here are ten of the most popular sounds that have been listened to on our soundmap.
Santiago del Teide, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Recorded by Alfonso. "I just want to say thank you to Gemma for giving me the idea to participate in this project."
Chernyaevsky Forest, Perm territory, Russia
Recorded by Natalya Kazantseva. "03.08.2020, 19.08"
Sichuan Golden Monkey, Sichuan, China
Yasuni National Park At night, Ecuador
Recorded by Jasmine Black.
Ankasa Forest rain starting, Ghana
Recorded by Will Hawthorne. Ankasa is a beautiful, protected area of Wet evergreen rainforest, containing a high diversity of plants and animals, many of which are not found elsewhere. Cicadas (and other animals) make a lot of noise, which for most of the time fluctuates in volume over a minute or so in a hypnotic manner, as can be heard in this clip. It’s called rain forest for a good reason: The second audio clip features the relatively gentle start of a rain storm. It rains on a high proportion of the days in a year, often so heavily that it’s impossible to hear anything else, including the insects.
Jaguari River, São Paolo, Brazil
Lemurs in Andasibe, Madagascar
Recorded by Prof Julia Jones, Conservation Scientist at Bangor University. Calls of Indri (the largest lemur in Madagascar) recorded in Andasibe, Madagascar.
Santangen, Bryne, Norway
Recorded by Murielle. 13th june, at 2pm, warm and sunny.
A small waterfall in Sorreisa, Norway
Recorded by Ewelina Jarosz & Aleksandra Narkowicz.
Tamin Negara National Park, Malaysia
Recorded by Tony Baylis. Reputed to be one of the oldest forests in the world.Photo, tropical rainforest from the river. Recording Magpie Robin in the forest, 9:30am.
Submit your sounds
We’ve loved hearing hundreds of submissions from all over the world – and we’d love to hear more. If you want to get involved with our growing soundmap, head to this page to find the Audio Submission form. We update our soundmap on a semi-regular basis.
