Wild Bird Acoustics

Alan Dalton

Step into the living soundscape of Scandinavia with Wild Bird Acoustics — a deeply immersive birding podcast hosted by birder, naturalist, and sound recorder Alan Dalton. Recorded across the forests, wetlands, coastlines, and wild spaces of Sweden, this podcast invites listeners to slow down, listen carefully, and reconnect with nature through authentic bird sound recordings and atmospheric natural audio. Each episode blends rich field recordings of birdsong, calls, and ambient wilderness soundscapes with thoughtful reflections, identification tips, behavioural insights, and stories from the field. Whether you are a seasoned birder refining your ear, a beginner learning to identify species by sound, or simply someone seeking calm and restoration through natural audio, Wild Bird Acoustics offers a unique and rewarding listening experience. Expect intimate encounters. From the haunting display of Black-throated Diver across pristine lakes, to the rhythmic drumming of woodpeckers deep in expansive Swedish forests, to the  wider calm of the dawn chorus. The podcast explores both common and elusive Scandinavian species, helping listeners gradually build confidence in identifying birds by ear, whilst delving into the amazing world of bird vocalizations. But this is more than a birding podcast. The carefully captured environmental audio carries a powerful ASMR qualities, gentle wind through birch trees, rain on woodland foliage, distant cranes calling at dawn, waves along Baltic shorelines, and the layered textures of untouched habitats. I hope listeners will find the recordings profoundly calming.  Birdsong audio  for mental wellbeing, stress relief, mindfulness, sleep, relaxation, study, or quiet reflection. In a noisy world, I hope that Wild Bird Acoustics will create space to breathe and simply listen... Welcome to Wild Bird Acoustics!

  1. 2 days ago

    Life on a Beaver Wetland; Season Finale

    Over the years, I have become increasingly fascinated by one of natures greatest engineers, European Beaver. As a field recorder, I am naturally to drawn to wetlands. These rich habitats are often full of interesting bird species and offer rich recording opportunities. Here in Sweden, particularly within large areas on natural forest, you can find wetland habitats that have been created by European Beaver and these are often incredibly biodiverse locations. Taking a deep dive into one of these Beaver wetlands was something I had wanted to do for some time. Over the course of early 2025, I finally decided to try and uncover some of the secrets these remarkable habitats might hold. Within Tyresta National Park, there was one particularly pristine example of such habitat. This is a mature, well established wetland that owes its existence entirely to these remarkable mammals. I set out to actively explore this location, using a combination of recording methods. The results were amazing. The audio was breathtaking. The journey was worth the effort. In this episode, the season finale, I will share the resulting audio with listeners. I have no doubt I will be returning to such habitats in the future. There is a lot to uncover at these sites, which are a testament to a remarkable mammal, it's effect on the landscape and the species that benefit from the tireless work these animals do. We can learn a lot from nature... In addition to the podcast episode, listeners may be interested in a written piece on my blog, detailing this particular 2024 project. You will find the link below.. https://blogbirder.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-sounds-of-rewilding-field-recording.html Leave a comment here.... Support the show Subscibe to Wild Bird Acoustics here; https://wildbirdacoustics.buzzsprout.com Lots more audio related material here at my long running website; https://blogbirder.blogspot.com/

  2. 16 Jul

    The VisMig Files #2; Early May at Tyresta National Park

    Wild Bird Acoustics brings you two sound magazines in this episode. As Autumn now stretches out in front of us, I thought this might be a good time to include the second installment of passively recorded audio from my listening station at Hällögern in Västrbotten. Podcast listener's will now be very familiar with this location, but this will be the first time I will share audio from the late autumn period at this site. In 2024, due of the aqquisition on a new SM Mini recorder for this site, I was able to passively record for a significantly longer period of time, which allowed me to collect audio all the way into mid November. I will share the results of that passive deployment with listeners in this sound magazine. The second half of this episode concernes itself with field recording at Tyresta National Park in early May. Having recorded there extensively throughout early spring, it was wonderful to get out into the field and experience new sounds in the park in May, those of newly return summer migrants. It is during the late spring period that many breeding species return and reclaim breeding territories at this site and I was on hand to get some lovely audio as this began to happen in 2025. Join me as I share some wonderful audio of a wide range of species, as summer species began to flood back into Sweden. Leave a comment here.... Support the show Subscibe to Wild Bird Acoustics here; https://wildbirdacoustics.buzzsprout.com Lots more audio related material here at my long running website; https://blogbirder.blogspot.com/

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Step into the living soundscape of Scandinavia with Wild Bird Acoustics — a deeply immersive birding podcast hosted by birder, naturalist, and sound recorder Alan Dalton. Recorded across the forests, wetlands, coastlines, and wild spaces of Sweden, this podcast invites listeners to slow down, listen carefully, and reconnect with nature through authentic bird sound recordings and atmospheric natural audio. Each episode blends rich field recordings of birdsong, calls, and ambient wilderness soundscapes with thoughtful reflections, identification tips, behavioural insights, and stories from the field. Whether you are a seasoned birder refining your ear, a beginner learning to identify species by sound, or simply someone seeking calm and restoration through natural audio, Wild Bird Acoustics offers a unique and rewarding listening experience. Expect intimate encounters. From the haunting display of Black-throated Diver across pristine lakes, to the rhythmic drumming of woodpeckers deep in expansive Swedish forests, to the  wider calm of the dawn chorus. The podcast explores both common and elusive Scandinavian species, helping listeners gradually build confidence in identifying birds by ear, whilst delving into the amazing world of bird vocalizations. But this is more than a birding podcast. The carefully captured environmental audio carries a powerful ASMR qualities, gentle wind through birch trees, rain on woodland foliage, distant cranes calling at dawn, waves along Baltic shorelines, and the layered textures of untouched habitats. I hope listeners will find the recordings profoundly calming.  Birdsong audio  for mental wellbeing, stress relief, mindfulness, sleep, relaxation, study, or quiet reflection. In a noisy world, I hope that Wild Bird Acoustics will create space to breathe and simply listen... Welcome to Wild Bird Acoustics!