Voices of a Flyway

Spring Dawn Chorus, Sweet Lake, MI, 5/13/2025

Spring Dawn Chorus, Sweet Lake, MI, 5/13/2025 by Jacob Job

Listening Point Audio - Bayou Dreams

The word bayou evokes all kinds of emotions, coated with mystery and eeriness. This recording encapsulates those feelings as you spend a late night next to a southern Louisiana bayou. Above you are the stars in a clear, moonless sky, and all around you are the sounds of insects, frogs, and other nighttime creepies. Sitting out there all alone isn't for the faint of heart, but luckily I did all of the work for you so you can enjoy that experience from the comfort of your home. You can purchase the full recording and others at listeningpointaudio.com

Yellowstone SFX Pack

68 tracks recorded in the backcountry of Yellowstone National Park. All recordings were made in May of 2021 and feature sounds from mountain meadows and ponds, ponderosa pina forest, and douglas fir forest. See file list in item description for full details about recordings included in this sound effects pack.

'Voices of a Flyway' Episode 7: The Boreal Forest

Episode 7: In this episode, we go inside a place altogether different than anything we’ve seen before. An ecosystem ... still intact. Where true wildness and untold value, still remains. In these North Woods that grow at the source if it all, there’s a chance to do things differently. And we …. have a collective decision to make. What can we learn from our wildest remaining place? And will we learn the lessons from the places we’ve seen, and protect what’s here before it goes the way they have? To learn more about the project, visit www.voicesofaflyway.com/explore to start exploring our 6 interactive story maps that feature more of the stories, photos, and videos of the project! Funded by an Explorer grant from National Geographic, our team - a soundscape recordist, an audio producer, and a wildlife photographer - traveled from the Louisiana coastline to the Boundary Waters of Minnesota with the 2019 spring songbird migration. We visited six at-risk ecosystems along the route to uncover: 1. Why each of these delicate ecosystems is so critical to bird migration. 2. The infinite ways that people living in these areas share connections to the natural world. 3. What stands to be lost as these ecosystems vanish?

'Voices of a Flyway' Episode 6: The Tallgrass Prairie

Episode 6: In the songs and stories of our American heritage, the prairie was a folk hero in and of itself. Where deer and antelope played. The heart of what would become our beloved amber waves of grain. But how many of us have ever seen it for ourselves? This land of American lore? Nearly 100% of Iowa's prairies are gone. In their place, endless rows of corn and soy. We examine the forces at play that wiped this ecosystem off the map, and those that are trying to resurrect it. To learn more about the project, visit www.voicesofaflyway.com/explore to start exploring our 6 interactive story maps that feature more of the stories, photos, and videos of the project! Funded by an Explorer grant from National Geographic, our team - a soundscape recordist, an audio producer, and a wildlife photographer - traveled from the Louisiana coastline to the Boundary Waters of Minnesota with the 2019 spring songbird migration. We visited six at-risk ecosystems along the route to uncover: 1. Why each of these delicate ecosystems is so critical to bird migration. 2. The infinite ways that people living in these areas share connections to the natural world. 3. What stands to be lost as these ecosystems vanish?