Into the Okavango
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Field Recording: Elephants Drinking Next To Us
03 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
August 25 2015, 1:06 PM. Chief's Island, Okavango Delta. Such massive animals, who can be so thunderous when they find the need, can also be so inc...
Field Recording: Lions (And Baboons) At Dawn In Mombo
27 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
August 27 2015, 6:41 AM. Chief's Island, Okavango Delta. I'd reconciled myself to not having the territorial call of the most iconic predator on tape...
Field Recording: Flies On A Crocodile Carcass
27 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
August 25 2015, 6:11 PM. Chief's Island, Okavango Delta. A crocodile carcass on the floodplain was presumably the result of an encounter with a defen...
Field Recording: Late Night In The Delta With Quietly Grazing Hippos
27 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
August 21st 2015, 2:59 AM. Okavango Delta. Night sounds around my tent including some very small and very large animals. Recorded by Brian House...
Field Recording: Swamp Boubou
26 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
August 15 2015, 7:24 AM. Okavango Delta. Antiphonal call that is ubiquitous in the delta, finally got a reasonably clear recording chasing them aroun...
Field Recording: Black-Collared Barbet
26 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
August 16 2015, 6:52 AM. Okavango Delta. Beautiful call by this bird couple. Google "antiphonal birdsong". Really wanted to get this recording to sen...
Field Recording: Catfish Splashing At Dawn In A Palm Breeze
26 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
August 26 2015, 5:40 AM. Chief's Island, Okavango Delta. One of the many times where I was recording something from inside my tent with no idea wha...
Field Recording: Wind And Water, Passage Through A Channel
23 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
August 22 2015, 10:19 AM. Okavango Delta. The rhythm of traveling by mekoro with the interplay between water, air, ngashi (pole), and reeds, can b...
Field Recordings: Some Angry Monkeys
23 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
August 22 2015, 2:53 PM. Okavango Delta. Poling our mekoro past a small termite island, we heard a fuss -- vervet monkeys. Pete and Tom both speculat...
Field Recording: Close Encounter With A Group Of Elephants
22 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
August 22 2015, 4:06 PM. Split Island, Okavango Delta. We were inadvertently about to camp between members of a group of elephants on a narrow strip ...
Field Recording: Calling Out Bird Sightings
21 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
August 21 2015, 9:26 AM. Okavango Delta. The scientific goals of the trip included a bird survey through the Delta transect. Members of the team ca...
Field Recording: Wind In The Grass
21 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
August 21 2015, 2:34 PM. Okavango Delta. So many beautiful ambient noises here. I just put the microphone in the middle of tall grass on a medium-s...
Field Recording: Not Enough Water, So We Harness Up And Pull The Mekoros
20 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
August 20 2015, 11:59 AM. Madinari island, Okavango Delta. This expedition was often a very trying experience. A mokoro is not so nice when loaded ...
Field Recording: Tom Poling Through A Nice Channel
20 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
August 19 2015, 11:22 AM. Okavango Delta near Jediba. On a solo mission with Tom, the sound of the mokoro was different, with his freer and faster ...
Field Recording: Dawn Chorus Mega Mix (No Edits)
19 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
August 19 2015, 7:08 AM. Okavango Delta. Every morning is a whole new variety, I just set this one up just after dawn and let it go. Recorded by Bri...
Field Recording: Old Bull Elephant And His Young Apprentice Redecorate Our Campsite
19 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
August 17 2015, 10:06 PM. Okavango Delta. Small groups of bull elephants clear islands to make them more elephant-friendly, in hopes of attracting a ...
Field Recording: Reed Frogs In The Delta
18 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
August 18 2015, 7:21 PM. Okavango Delta. These reed frogs remind me of Xenakis' "Concret PH", an emotionally important work for me (and early example...
Field Recording: Poling Mekoros Through Heavy Reeds
17 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
August 17 2015, 2:42 PM. Okavango Delta. Lots of reeds. Sitting in front of the mokoro, dodging them. Recorded by Brian House (http://brianhouse...
Field Recording: Bird Calls Over An Insect Drone
17 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
August 17 2015, 6:36 PM. Okavango Panhandle. The last island before Seronga and the Delta proper. Early evening, stuck the mic into the papyrus. ...
Field Recording: Party At Seronga With ba'Yei Families
17 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
August 16 2015, 9:21 PM. Seronga. There was such joy in Seronga as the team shared a feast, song, and dance with the families of our ba'Yei members. ...
Field Recording: Dark-Capped Bulbul
16 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
August 16 2015, 7:23 AM. Okavango Panhandle. Recorded by Brian House (http://brianhouse.net, http://soundcloud.com/brianhouse) for the Okavango Wil...
Field Recording: Pel's Fishing Owl At Dawn
15 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
August 15 2015, 4:01 AM. Okavango Panhandle. Pel's Fishing Owl is highly sought by birders -- we saw a pair of them flying later in the trip, so in...
Field Recording: Scarab Beetles Invade Camp
14 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
August 13 2015, 6:54 PM. Okavango Panhandle. Suddenly they were dropping everywhere and taking off, crashing into things, the microphone included. R...
Field Recording: White-Browed Robin Chat
14 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
August 14 2015, 6:36 AM. Okavango Panhandle. I am in awe of this bird -- always a different song, and the sense that it's coming from everywhere at...