Duck on a screaming rampage wrecks Australia’s ’quiet time’

It was a perfect night. But this duck had other ideas.

The scene: A perfect, wonderful, windless night at a wetland.

You couldn't ask for better conditions. The sun sets and the insects hum and eventually you hear a boobook and it's lovely… except one very loud duck keeps on yelling periodically the whole way through.

It's like the thing KNEW I was recording. It goes on for hours.

Anyway, I've got a passion project at the ABC.

A podcast called Nature Sounds by Ann Jones.

It's all these looooong form sounds scapes. The idea is that you can use them to relax, or go to sleep, or drown out your colleagues or whatever.

You can find it on the ABC listen app or any other podcast app. I promise this screaming duck didn't make the cut. 

RECORDING: Ann Jones

MASTERING ENGINEER: Isabella Tropiano