sounds of Thailand wildlife

birds
songsters	three of the most creative song birds	1.7 MB
calls	a variety of hoots, squawks and whistles	980k
a virtuoso	the spot-throated babbler can go on for hours	896k
lowland chorus	dawn breaks at a temple surrounded by forest	1.5MB
highland chorus	some of the typical birds found over 1000m.	1.1MB

insects
crickets	stridulators provide a rhythm section	290k
cicadas	cicadas emit their varied calls from dawn to dusk with some of the eeriest coming after nightfall	1.7MB

other wildlife
frogs	the rainy season always brings a nightly chorus of frogs
gibbons	early morning calls echo across the valleys	986k
barking deer	family members call to each other at night	448k
squirrels	a mixture of grunts and bird-like whistles	488k
forest gecko	typically a stuttering start builds up in a crescendo then tails off	101k
forest at dawn	a chorus of gibbons, wild peafowl, deer, insects and a few birds	1.3MB
forest at night	the forest is taken over by insects and frogs with the occasional owl	1.5MB
elephant	the only one I've found outside an elephant camp	87k

Thai wildlife in conservation centres	thanks to the Thai Society for the Conservation of Wild Animals for making these possible
elephant	elephants trumpet mostly when excited	96k
macaques	aggressive little things	137k
banteng	native cow	209k
black bear	an extraordinary song	500k
clouded leopard	sounds like a bird at times	515k
otter	listen to him gobbling up some fish	149k
tiger	wow, this was too close for comfort	188k
binturong	a small group squabbling as meal time approaches	1.2MB

forest temple at Chiang Dao	nature
	mountain stream	many streams dry up in the hot season- this was the start of the rainy season	294k
	stream and birds	a silver-eared meesia is singing by the stream	310k
	rain storm	leaves in the forest are battered by the sudden downpour	164k
	distant thunder in the mountains	late afternoon storms are common during the rainy season	1.5MB
	tropical storm	I was glad to be in the house when this one came	940k