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Today: #66 in Science, Australia on our combined chart.
Today: #137 in Science, New Zealand on our combined chart.
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A rainy night with owls beside a waterhole in the desert
August 4, 2026 · 1 hr 40 minSOUNDS LIKE: The pressure release of rain drops hitting parched red sand after a sweltering day and possibly the best owl recording that Ann has ever taken. CONTAINS: Patches of rain, and distant frogs happy with the rain, kingfishers with…
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Soothing, soft wind through trees in a peaceful desert
August 4, 2026 · 2 hr 54 minSOUNDS LIKE: Laying in a hammock, your eyes closed, no-one for 500km, surrounded by red sand, listening to the wind in trees that've been around since the dinosaurs. Perfect conditions for a nap. Sometimes, you just need to a bit of…
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Peaceful soundscape of soft ocean waves in a sandy bay
August 4, 2026 · 1 hr 16 minSOUNDS LIKE: The 'shhhh' sound that tropical dreams are made of as gentle waves roll through mangrove trees on an island paradise. It's hushed and peaceful. CONTAINS: Soft waves, and salt water moving quite continuously. Quiet insects…
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Nature's white noise — thousands of humming insects and a soothing rufous owl
August 4, 2026 · 2 hr 20 minCONTAINS: A consistent insect chorus with a rufous owl calling intermittently throughout. RECOMMENDED FOR: Those who like white noise, brown noise, pink noise. For people who want a consistent soundscape to help mask the sounds of the…
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Birds in paradise — a rainforest nature soundscape from Australia
August 4, 2026 · 1 hr 30 minSOUNDS LIKE: You're waking up while on holiday in a tropical rainforest, surrounded by exotic birds. Layers of sound are like vine tendrils curling through the jungle canopy: the birds are near, far, above and right next to you. Let them…
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A cold, crisp night, a high-country river and a whole lot of wombat
August 4, 2026 · 55 minSOUNDS LIKE: You have eschewed modern life and joined your new BFF — a wombat — to live a life of naps, snacks and cute attacks. CONTAINS: A clear, cold night and the wombats are stirring, stomping, scratching and most of all, crunching…
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Where there is water
September 20, 2022No music. No voices. Just the sound of a creek bed in outback Australia. In the Murchison district in Western Australia you're surrounded by low lying ranges where rocks have been found that are 4.4 billion years old — they're almost as…
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The storm front
September 13, 2022No music, no human voices. Just the sound of an epic summer storm rolling on through the evening. I recorded this at my home. It had been a hot day, and in the late afternoon there was a crack of thunder. I walked out, set the recorder…
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Sounds like camping
September 5, 2022No music, no human voices, just the sound of night falling over bushland near Narrabri, recorded by the ABC's Ann Jones. It sounds like camping. Narrabri is in North West NSW, in an incredibly fertile farming area. And yep, you guessed it…
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Quiet shoreline at sunset
August 29, 2022No music. No voices. Just the sound of a quiet ocean inlet in the early evening, recorded by the ABC's Dr Ann Jones. This shoreline is home to many wallabies; will they make any sound? This was recorded over the summer of 2021/22 as I was…
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An hour before dawn in arid WA
August 23, 2022No music. No human voices. Just the sound of a frog chorus and a pre-dawn rain shower in arid Western Australia, recorded on location by the ABC's Dr Ann Jones. Get in a car in Perth and drive 4 hours northeast to sit beside a pool of…
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Life in a forest of giants
August 16, 2022No music, no voices. Just the sound of the mountain ash forest, recorded by the ABC's Dr Ann Jones. The mountain ash is the tallest flowering plant in the world, a eucalypt that can reach 90m in height. And beneath its arbour is an…
About the show
Listen to the soothing sounds of nature directly from the microphones of Dr Ann Jones. 'That bird lady from the ABC' captures wildlife and wilderness in all its glory — bringing you soundscapes of the ocean, forests, rain and storms across Australia. If you need a podcast for white noise, meditation, or to finally get some sleep, this is just what the doctor ordered.