Sounds of the Earth
In this Weekend Breakfast feature, we hear the natural world in its many guises.
Drift away in pastures new
The soporific sounds of mid-afternoon in the late spring pastures of the Pyrenees.
Wake up, it's a beautiful morning
It's dawn in the Serengeti and Fischer's lovebirds begin to sing in its acacia woodland.
Ramble on: the song of the grosbeak
Rose-breasted grosbeaks have a sweet, rambling song, captured here in a US pine forest.
The place where time zones converge
Shiver to the sound of the wind blowing and ice crystals forming at the North Pole.
Strewth! Pica pica, currawong or butcherbird?
Australian magpies have a tricky back story, but their song is beloved Down Under.
Frigates and boobies: the sound of the Theory of Natural Selection
Charles Darwin found proof for his revolutionary ideas in the Galapagos islands.
Come on in, the water's freezing!
Immerse yourself in an ice-laden Japanese river from the cosy warmth of your armchair.
Fascinating rhythms: the elaborate display of the bowerbird
Trill, flap and beat with the Macgregor's bowerbird.
Have yourself a serene little Christmas
Pull on your best Christmas jumper and have an eggnog to the festive sounds of reindeer.
Tick-tock: the winter song of a robin
It's a winter dawn in a Northumbrian wood and a robin is calling through the raindrops.
The wintry croak of the European raven
This Corvus corax corax lives in Norway and doesn't half sound like he has a sore throat.
Experience dusk in a Karnatakan forest
It's evening in Nagarahole National Park, India, and the frogs are croaking in the hush.
Wooooo! Give yourself goosepimples with the sound a graveyard tawny owl
Forget witches and ghosts, the haunting call of the tawny owl will chill your bones.
Experience an avian mass take-off from a Tunisian lake
It's dawn at Lake Ichkeul in Tunisia, and the resident wildfowl take off from the reeds.
Four vintage minutes of the Argentinian pampas
Listen to our archive recording of the pampas grasslands near Buenos Aires, Argentina
The drowsy sound of summer in the Sierra de Guadarrama, central Spain
Summer in the drowsy Sierra de Guadarrama, the mountainous spine of Spain
The lulling sound of the turning of the tide at Auchencairn Bay, Scotland
The lulling sound of the turning of the tide at Auchencairn Bay, Scotland.
Cool yourself in the paddy fields of Japan
Cool yourself with the warblers and skylarks in the rice paddy fields of Japan.
The Dawn chorus in Curacao, in the southern Caribbean Sea
The dawn chorus on the outskirts of a small village in eastern Curacao.
Sunset on the Everglades
A glorious sunset over the Florida Everglades with sounds of roosting snowy egrets.
Ten minutes of birdsong from the English countryside
An enchanting natural soundscape recorded one bright summer's dawn in a Cotswolds orchard
An Icelandic Chorus for a Golden Plover
An Icelandic Chorus for a Golden Plover by Chris Watson
Sounds of the Earth: Woodland Stream
Sounds of the Earth: A woodland stream in Cornwall Credit: British Library
Bird: Song Thrush
Poets muse the Song Thrush recorded by listener Mark Hollingworth
