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A warm welcome to the
Wildlife Sound Recording Society (WSRS).

This year the society celebrates its
Golden Anniversary, 50 years 1968 - 2018

The Society welcomes anyone who is interested in or has an appreciation of the sounds made by wildlife and the natural world.

Core aims of the society are to:

  • Encourage participation in the collection of these wonderful sounds of the natural world.
  • To help promote the need to understand their meanings.

Through its members, the Society fosters development in:

  • Recording skills and techniques
  • Promoting the study of bioacoustics.

Members of WSRS benefit from learning

  • How to go about recording wildlife sounds,
  • How to find good recording locations,
  • Field craft,
  • Natural Hstory
  • What equipment to use,
  • What to do with your recordings

You can listen to Radio WSRS free streaming of wildlife recordings made by WSRS members from around the world.

Wildlife Sound Journal, 50th Anniversary Edition now out.

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Wildlife Sound Recording Society Competition

is in receipt of generous sponsorship from Sound Network
The Sound Network Prize goes to the overall winner of the competition.

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Siver Fox winner 2017 Patrick Franke "Isabelline Wheatear"

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Isabelline Wheatears have a large territory with scattered song posts and long distance song flights. This makes it difficult to record  good longer sequences of song.
There is an old Mongolian belief, that the Mongolian language has it’s origins in the song of the Isabelline Wheatears.
This recording was made at a place called Telmen Nuur, Mongolia,  during a trip in 2013 bird ringing and sound recording. 

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Our Restricted Category competition was generously sponsored by Wildlife Watching Supplies with the gift of a voucher to spend on-line.

 

Restricted winner 2017 Sue Gould

We were camped in cloud forest at an altitude of 2,200 m in the YUS Conservation Area on the Huon Peninsula of Papua New Guinea. During the night a Harpy Eagle was calling at regular intervals not far from our camp. I got up before dawn and set out in the dark with a hand held Telinga Stereo-Dat microphone in a parabola and a Sound Devices 702 recorder. I made many recordings of a few minutes at a time starting from quite a long way off. After each recording I moved closer to the Harpy Eagle, gradually working my way upslope through the dark cloud forest. Fortunately it kept calling from the same position and eventually I was standing beneath it. I didn't get to see it however, as it was calling from high up in the dense canopy where it was hidden by epiphytes. It's distinctive call penetrated far into the surrounding forest and I imagined a mate or competitor listening somewhere.