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Wild Bird Acoustics
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...
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Wild Bird Acoustics
Latest Episodes
Coastal Autumn Soundscapes: Active Field Recording at Hällögern
In the latter half of September 2025, I travelled north to the tiny island of Hällögern, in the northern part of Sweden. On this occasion I would spend two weeks on the island during the peak period of autumn migration. The trip was carefully p...
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A Bird in the Bush; The Secret World of Autumn Migration
Along the coast of Västerbotten, each autumn, a vast migration of birds takes place each year. In 2025, by means of passive recording, I was able to monitor this migration by placing a recorder in cover for two months. During this period,...
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 Hällö...
From Woodland to Flooded Meadow; The Sandemar Files #4
In this, the final installment of the Sandemar Files, I take you on an auditory tour of Sandemar Reserve, exploring the wonderful sounds of this reserve on May. In late spring, this reserve bursts into life, as summer migrants return in large n...
The Vocalizations of Green Woodpecker; Autumn Owls on the Västerbotten Coastline
In this episode of Wild Bird Acoustics, I will present two sound magazines for listener's to enjoy. The first of these deals with one on my favourite species here in Sweden, the European Green Woodpecker. This is a shy, rather retiring bird and...
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