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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Red-tailed Hawk unidentified vocalizations
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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Red-winged Blackbird
Audio file copyright 2014, Kevin Colver. All rights reserved
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Redhead
Audio file copyright 2014, Kevin Colver. All rights reserved
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Ring-billed Gull
Audio file copyright 2014, Kevin Colver. All rights reserved
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Ring-necked Duck
Audio file copyright 2014, Kevin Colver. All rights reserved
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Ring-necked Pheasant
Audio file copyright 2014, Kevin Colver. All rights reserved
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Ring-necked Pheasant
Jeff Rice; All rights reserved
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Ring-necked pheasant calls (170604)
Audio file copyright Jeff Rice and Montana State University; Use of this audio file is allowed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd90
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Ring-necked pheasant startle
Audio file copyright Jeff Rice and Montana State University; Use of this audio file is allowed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd91
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River Otter captive animal (growl)
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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River Otter captive animal (grunts and squeaks)
Audio file copyright Jeff Rice, 2010. All rights reserved
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Rock Dove (Domestic Pigeon)
Audio file copyright 2014, Kevin Colver. All rights reserved
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Rock Wren
Audio file copyright 2014, Kevin Colver. All rights reserved
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Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Audio file copyright 2014, Kevin Colver. All rights reserved
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Ross's Goose
Audio file copyright 2014, Kevin Colver. All rights reserved