THE SOUNDS OF THE PRAIRIE
About our collection.
To the east of Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front lies the High Plains Ecosystem. This area includes some of the world’s largest remaining stretches of intact grasslands. Thousands of migratory birds flock here and their calls at first light create the prairie’s distinctive dawn chorus. Where they exist, such tallgrass prairies are rich in wildlife, but only 1% of these grasslands are still found in the United States (link to: https://www.nps.gov/tapr/learn/nature/a-complex-prairie-ecosystem.htm), making them among the most endangered ecosystems in the world. In 2017, the Acoustic Atlas began documenting the sounds of Montana's prairies through a collaboration with the American Prairie Reserve. Each spring and summer we visit the Reserve to make recordings of species and soundscapes that we place in our online collection. You can search these recordings by species or simply browse the site. Explore the sounds of the prairie. [Link to the sounds] Related: Find out about the sounds of Montana’s four major ecosystems in a story map we co-created with ESRI Story Maps [link to: https://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2018/sounds-of-the-wild-west/]
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Downy Woodpecker
Audio file copyright 2014, Kevin Colver. All rights reserved
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Downy Woodpecker drum
Audio file copyright 2008, the Western Soundscape Archive at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library. Use of this audio file is allowed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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Dry Fork APR
Audio copyright Kevin Colver 2017. All rights reserved
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Dunlin
Audio file copyright 2014, Kevin Colver. All rights reserved
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Dusky Flycatcher
Audio file copyright 2014, Kevin Colver. All rights reserved
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Eared Grebe distant
Audio file copyright 2010, the Western Soundscape Archive at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library. Use of this audio file is allowed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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Eared Grebe flapping and skimming across water
Audio file copyright 2010, the Western Soundscape Archive at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library. Use of this audio file is allowed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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Eared Grebe splash
Audio file copyright 2010, the Western Soundscape Archive at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library. Use of this audio file is allowed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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Earthworms
Audio file copyright 2010, the Western Soundscape Archive at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library. Use of this audio file is allowed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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Earthworms airborne sounds
Audio file copyright 2010, the Western Soundscape Archive at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library. Use of this audio file is allowed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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Eastern Kingbird
Audio file copyright 2014, Kevin Colver. All rights reserved
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Enrico Cottonwood Dawn
Audio copyright Kevin Colver 2017. All rights reserved
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Eurasian Collared Dove, House Finch, and American Robin
Audio copyright Kevin Colver. All rights reserved
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Eurasian Collared Dove, House Finch, and American Robin (0001484)
Audio copyright Kevin Colver. All rights reserved
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Evening Grosbeak
Audio file copyright 2014, Kevin Colver. All rights reserved