Nature Track
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
The Soundtrack of Australia
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1977, we sent a Golden Record of the sounds of Earth into space with NASA's Voyager probes.This 'cosmic' calling card inspired the program team to...
Where there is water
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
No 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...
The storm front
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
No 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, a...
Sounds like camping
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
No 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.Narra...
Quiet shoreline at sunset
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
No 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...
An hour before dawn in arid WA
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
No 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...
Life in a forest of giants
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
No 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...
Heavy rain and desert thunder
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
No music, no talking, just the sound of a rain storm in the desert.Wiluna is a town on the Traditional lands of the Martu people in Western Australia...
Dawn at the creek
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
No music, no voices, just imagine you’re camping beside a creek in early spring.  Listening Notes from Ann:  It was the first hot day of Spring...
Midnight frog chorus
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
No music, no voices, just the sound of night time at a swamp on Wadawarrung Country in Victoria.  Listening Notes from Ann Jones: There are at...
Lyrebird songs in a Gippsland rainforest
05 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
No music, no voices, just the sound of the forest waking up. I made this recording on a wintery morning, outside a hut high up in the mountains of G...
Carolling magpies in Western Australia
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
No music, no voices, just the sound of the forest waking up. This recording was made while traveling through Whadjuk Nyoongar land, WA. The birds dif...
Gentle rain on a tin roof in the outback
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
No music, no voices, just the sound of a spring shower hitting a corrugated iron roof. This recording was made on Wadawurrung Country, in west Victor...
Peaceful morning forest songs
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
No music, no voices, just the sound of the forest coming to life early one morning near Canberra -- where the gum trees grow small and with twisting ...
Relaxing birdsong by the ocean
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
No music, no voices, just the sound of the Roebuck Bay mudflats near Broome, WA. Hear the breeze across the water, crabs and mudskippers flipping and...
Dawn chorus in the mountains Â
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
No music, no voices, just the sound of a valley halfway up a Tasmanian mountain. This soundscape is full of birds and breeze echoing backwards and f...
Calm, flowing creek with night-time frog calls
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
No music, no voices, just the sound of a gentle stream and frogs calling on a still, cool night in regional Victoria.Moonlight floods the landscape o...