The Arctic refuge is my spiritual home, as a kid i always wanted to go there after seeing this fragile ecosystem on TV. I first went there in 2004 to record around the Canning delta for the book “Arctic Wings” The CD included was beautiful. It even compelled Jimmy Carter to write to me to say he and his wife went to sleep listening to it. Jimmy Carter actually wrote the foreword to the book. This is a recording from four trips including the Brooks range and coastal plain.

The Belize rainforest is home to an incredible variety of wildlife including wild cats such as the elusive jaguar, tapir, crocodile, howler monkeys, armadillo, the keel-billed toucan, parrots, hummingbirds, heron, macaws, coati, and more. This album was Recorded around the Pine ridge mountains as a storm came rolling along the mountains. The warm torrential rains are followed by some large thunder claps..

A recording made on Katmai NP all along the Boreal forest. The park is vast and includes the valley of the ten thousand smokes. High winds blow through the forest and many rivers cascade from the peaks. Brown bears are found in the many rivers fishing for salmon as a multitude of birds sing including the boreal owl..

Under increasing threat of logging and clearing for palm plantations, this recording was made in and around the Imbak Canyon Conservation Area. You find such rarities like Pygmy elephants, Bornean Gibbon, Proboscis monkeys, Malaysan Sunbear, Western Tarsier, Clouded Leopard, the fascinating Tufted Ground Squirrel and over 100 species of bird including the near threatened Helmeted Hornbill and 5 of Borneo's endemic bird species which are; Bornean Blue Flycatcher, Bornean Bristlehead, Blue Headed Pitta, White Crowned Shama and Black Throated Wren Babbler.

Cape tribulation and the Daintree forest is one of my most favorite places on earth. There is not a time you are not immersed in sounds, be it day or night the sounds of the rainforest are magical. Birds and insects give way to amphibian choruses at night. Thunderstorms and rain shower complete the orchestra. Vape Tribulation can be found in Queensland Australia and is one of the oldest rainforests on earth

The Cévennes in southern France are the highest and southernmost part of the Massif Central. Famous are its dramatic limestone gorges and the colonies of vultures that build their nests on their ledges. Equally superb are the rivers valleys and the high limestone plateaux. This is a recording in a wooded area below a steep peak around 6:00am as the dawn breaks. Rivers echo around the mountains and an abundance of songbirds break the morning air...

Costa Rica is one of my favorite places to record, this album was Recorded in the Osa peninsula. The rainforest is full of critters from Tinamous to Jaguar. Howler monkeys break the dawn, tinamou and parrots wake the morning and a gazillion insects sing their choruses...

Manakins, bellbirds, frogs and insects make up this soundscape from the dry season. Howler monkeys are always some part of a Costa Rican soundscape. Recorded in finca Austria, Guanacaste. Considered part of a blue zone, the sounds themselves have healing qualities.

Recorded in the August in Turquino National Park, also known as Sierra Maestra National Park, The gentle winds blowing off the Caribbean sea give way to the occasional woodpeckers, finches and insect chorus. Its a soundtrack of peace and tranquillity in a country often thought of differently.

Tropical rainforests have some of the largest rivers in the world, like the Amazon, These mega-rivers are fed by countless smaller tributaries, streams, and creeks. This is a recording from one of these streams along the amazon. many birds, mammals, insects and amphibians in their thousands are found there. Listen to the gentle trickle of water and rain drops on foliage as we take to Amazonia..

Recorded around Yuba Pass and Lincoln meadows. I love the dawn choruses here, surrounded by pine trees and expansive meadows with a distant stream. The air is always so fresh after the snow melts. Dark-eyed juncos and sparrows with distant quails make the morning songs interesting.

I took a trip to Denali NP because i had read and seen so much of it. With Mount McKinley rising through the park, the setting was to good to be true… The park is vast, i travelled deep into it, surrounded by birds and bears with countless streams from glaciers. Denali is a magical place.

Recorded in Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, Mockingbirds, wrens, jays and warblers sing in the warm morning sunshine as strong winds blow the tumbleweed across the desert. Each desert i’ve recorded in has a different sound signature. Listen to this and compare to others in this collection…

This is a second recording from the Daintree rainforest. There is so much going on there that i could fill this space with hours of recordings and still find something new. Listen to the frogs and night critters taking over from the daytime singers and lay back, close your eyes and imagine you are there.

Often described as the “Roof of Thailand”, the park is part of the Himalayan mountain range. I recorded this in late spring and what amazed me was the amount of critters i could hear in the cold air as dawn broke…. Owls, doves, sunbirds and insects. Apart from the noises of the critters, I heard very little man made noises which made the recording more pleasing.

When i was a kid, extinction hadn’t got the seriousness as it does today in my mind, We talked of the dinosaurs, dodos and passenger pigeons as extinct. Today, over 1 million species stand on the precipice of extinction. These are a few of those animals in danger of being lost forever. We have “No fucking time” left to save them?

ncounter giant tortoises, blue-footed boobies, playful penguins, & charismatic sea lions. The Galápagos Islands is a volcanic archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. It's considered one of the world's foremost destinations for wildlife-viewing. here is one of a few recordings i made amongst Giant Tortoises and bird colonies. The Galapagos Islands feels like you are lost in time.

A morning chorus in the plains shadowed by the Grand Teton mountains in Wyoming. Sparrows, flycatchers, warblers and Bison fill the valley. You may hear the occasional wolf.

Hurricanes bring amazing sounds. I love the wind. It's extremely hard to record because it bounces off all things. Hurricane Dorian skirted through Florida with winds up to 120 mph and eventually made land in the Carolinas. Listen to its force as it blows through trees and low growing foliage. The whistle of wind is quite dynamic.

Sometimes all i need to get to sleep is the gentle sounds of insects. This is a recording in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, the most common singing insects—grasshoppers, katydids, crickets, and cicadas—have begun their courtship calls in earnest and the air is filled from morning to night with their buzzes and chirps.

We call Loons “Divers” in Europe but they make the same eerie calls as each other. Chetek lake can be found in Wisconsin. I stumbled on this body of water one day looking at a map. The night air was filled with insects and loon calls. Great to relax to or help with insomnia.

Recorded along the extensive pebble beach in Puerto Vallarta. Mexico. All beaches sound different around the world with sound signatures completely unique to one another. I love the ocean as it pulls the tiny stones with it as she laps the shore.

The Cévennes in southern France are the highest and southernmost part of the Massif Central. Famous are its dramatic limestone gorges and the colonies of vultures that build their nests on their ledges. Equally superb are the rivers valleys and the high limestone plateaux. This is a recording in a wooded area below a steep peak around 6:00am as the dawn breaks. Rivers echo around the mountains and an abundance of songbirds break the morning air...

’m always asked for ocean sounds. They have become one of the most popular requests. I’ve recorded ocean surf in over 50 countries and each one is different. There is a method to recording oceans, you can’t just set up a recoding rig and hit the record button. I record 3 different aspects and mix them all together giving a “spacial feeling to the recording. This particular ocean is recorded around Melbourne beach in Florida

The Okavango Delta is a unique pulsing wetland. More correctly an alluvial fan, the delta covers between 6 and 15 000 square kilometres of Kalahari Desert in northern Botswana and owes its existence to the Okavango (Kavango) River which flows from the Angolan highlands, across Namibia’s Caprivi Strip and into the harsh Kalahari Desert.. the gentle sounds of insects and the distant sound of jackets can be heard in this soundscape. It’s such a tranquil place and one of my most favorite places on earth.

This is a wonderful place to be in....moss hanging from trees in groves you can get lost in, old wood and an abundance of sounds. The Olympic peninsula is another favorite place for me to record and each season is different. Varied thrush, winter wren, spotted owl, ruffed grouse. Put on your headphones and emerge yourself in this recording.

While i visit the Olympic peninsula to record, i’ll always take my trusted recording set up to one of the many beaches in the area, Like i have said in other write-ups, beaches have different sound signatures and the Olympic beaches are no different. Tides that bash into the corner of the Olympic Peninsula are spectacular and if you can record at high tide you won’t be disappointed. Take a listen here.

I recorded the now extinct Panamanian golden tree frog here unknowingly. I don’t know what i’m recording most of the time as i don’t often see it in the thick jungles. This recording was done in the Parque Nacional Chagres. Howler monkeys, amphibians, birds and insects awaken the dawn.

Red throated caracara, Plumbeous pigeon, red and green macaw, white necked puffbird, plain winged antshrike, bright rumped antilla, and musician wren can all be heard in this wonderful recording made around Manu National Park, Peru.

It’s hard to record in Puerto Rica without capturing the calls of the coqui frog. The frog dominates the soundscape, but up in the forests I found a place that was less dense. Screech owls, tanagers and an abundance of critter calls makes up this recording of one of the jewels of the greater Antilles.

Huge colonies of penguins are found in Punta Tomba. The soundscape is dominated by their calls. It's like this huge meeting place to go over the day and chat about the fish they caught. This recording includes a social gathering of Magellan Penguins

Apart from ocean sounds, rain and thunder are always in demand. Recordings of rain and thunder are plentiful on the web but sounds of rainstorms can sound just like “white noise” if they are not recorded properly. Again, i record 3 separate recordings of depth and mix together to create the storm. This recording, done on the great plains, makes you feel like you are in it wanting to reach for cover.

When the dry season ends, the rains dominate Costa Rica and in some areas creates flooding. The large tropical foliage in the jungles sound like the rhythm section to an orchestra, each leaf has its own sound as it repels the raindrops. The trick is to record the rain without it banging on to the microphones.. i generally make a tent out of foliage and sticks and place my recording system under for protection. This is a recording in the Osa Peninsula, a magical part of Costa Rica to the south.

This recording is featured by the BBC in their Sounds of the Green Planet project. The redwoods are like nowhere else on earth. Amazing trees that seem to rise into the skies like beanstalks. In the groves of trees, owls, varied thrush, woodpeckers ravens and wrens can be heard. Calming sounds to fall asleep to. I know i did when i recorded this……..

The Serengeti is vast and an important part of Africa for animals and the great migration. Because of the great expanse of land, winds blow dust in the air as mammals roam the plains looking for food. When i think of Africa my thoughts always go back to this magical place and it reminds me how fragile we are. At any given time something happens, be it Lions or the many wildebeest that pass through. There is always something happening in this fragile landscape.

Tanzania’s geography includes Savannah's, wetlands, grassland plains, and wooded forests. The climate can vary from hot in the plains to cool and temperate in the mountains. It is home to Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain, and Lake Tanganyika, the world’s second deepest lake. When the rains come everything comes to life. Listen to the calm before the storm and immerse yourself in nature.

Queensland Australia gets some amazing thunderstorms especially around Cairns and Cape Tribulation. My microphones were left out one evening on the tablelands as this storm approached. It was the wettest summer for 20 years….

Winds across the prairie was recorded in Nebraska. You'll hear coyote, prairie chicken, larks and cranes. I was lucky enough to be close enough to a pack of coyote early this morning. There are some nice wind sounds blowing through the tall grasses. feel one with nature and sit back, put on your headphones and be there.

The canyon lands are amazing, tall sandstone arches and blazing sunshine, stunning sunsets and a gazzilion critters all in sync like one great orchestra. Canyon wrens, mockingbirds, flycatchers, warblers are all here. Like i said on one of the desert soundscapes, all deserts have a unique sound print to them. Utah’s canyon lands are no exception.

One of my early recordings in America. Who could come to the USA without visiting Yellowstone park! Geysers and hot springs, large bison, wolf packs, bears and birds in one healthy eco system. I recorded this after the snow melts in mid May. This is a mixture of sounds from around the park.

It was difficult to record here at the time of my recordings as journalists from the BBC had been banned by the political party that were in goverment. Zimbabwe has vast wild spaces with so many critters in them but it is now under threat with hunting and poaching becoming prominent. I recorded this in Gonarezhou National Park in the Masvingo Province. Kingfisher, baboon, chimpanzee, greater honey guides, golden tail, white browed sparrow weaver, pied crows and the “go ahead bird are all here.