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Nature Track

ABC Australia

Nature Track

Nature Track is a podcast that opens a window on the beautiful sounds of the Australian wilderness. These long, uninterrupted soundscapes are the perfect relaxing soundtrack for your work, exercise, meditation or sleep. Each unique track is carefully recorded on location in a different part of Australia by the ABC’s nature specialist Ann Jones.

Parent info: Nature Track is recommended for ages under 5 and 6-10 and 11 plus. It's an Episodic show that can be listened to in any order. Made in Australia, it's about Nature and Animals for kids. Launched in 2021, it has 3 seasons.

There are 17 episodes

Episodes
The most recent appears first.

  • The Soundtrack of Australia

    33 min Season 3 Episode 7 14 August 2023

    In 1977, we sent a Golden Record of the sounds of Earth into space with NASA's Voyager probes.…

  • Where there is water

    Season 3 Episode 6 20 September 2022

    No music. No voices. Just the sound of a creek bed in outback Australia.…

  • The storm front

    Season 3 Episode 5 13 September 2022

    No music, no human voices. Just the sound of an epic summer storm rolling on through the evening.…

  • Sounds like camping

    Season 3 Episode 4 5 September 2022

    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.…

  • Quiet shoreline at sunset

    Season 3 Episode 3 29 August 2022

    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 wallabies; will they make any sound?…

  • An hour before dawn in arid WA

    Season 3 Episode 2 23 August 2022

    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 Ann Jones.…

  • Life in a forest of giants

    Season 3 Episode 1 16 August 2022

    No music, no voices. Just the sound of the mountain ash forest, recorded by the ABC's Dr Ann Jones.…

  • Heavy rain and desert thunder

    1 hr Season 2 Episode 5 16 August 2021

    No music, no talking, just the sound of a rain storm in the desert.…

  • Dawn at the creek

    1 hr 29 min Season 2 Episode 4 12 August 2021

    No music, no voices, just imagine you’re camping beside a creek in early spring.…

  • Midnight frog chorus

    1 hr 9 min Season 2 Episode 3 9 August 2021

    No music, no voices, just the sound of night time at a swamp on Wadawarrung Country in Victoria.…

  • Lyrebird songs in a Gippsland rainforest

    1 hr 35 min Season 2 Episode 2 5 August 2021

    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 Gippsland on Gunaikurnai land. I arrived in the dark and didn’t realise how high up the hill I was. As the sun ro…

  • Carolling magpies in Western Australia

    1 hr Season 2 Episode 1 2 August 2021

    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 differ between east and west Australia. That huge swathe of arid country in between has meant that birds have evol…

  • Gentle rain on a tin roof in the outback

    1 hr 30 min Season 1 Episode 5 29 July 2021

    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 Victoria, Australia.Listening notes from Ann Jones:…

  • Peaceful morning forest songs

    2 hr Season 1 Episode 4 22 July 2021

    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 white trunks. In the twilight of the morning I creep out from under the covers to set up the microphones right …

  • Relaxing birdsong by the ocean

    2 hr 30 min Season 1 Episode 3 21 July 2021

    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 flopping, and a tide that slowly comes in. Roebuck Bay is on the traditional lands of the Yawuru people is one…

  • Dawn chorus in the mountains

    1 hr 30 min Season 1 Episode 2 20 July 2021

    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 forwards across a reservoir. Kunyani is swirled with mist and the city of Hobart spreads below, in miniature, on …

  • Calm, flowing creek with night-time frog calls

    2 hr 58 min Season 1 Episode 1 19 July 2021

    No music, no voices, just the sound of a gentle stream and frogs calling on a still, cool night in regional Victoria.…

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