Taiga - Europe's Boreal Wilderness

by Andrew Skeoch

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1.	In the Midsummer Dawn Twilight 01:48	buy track
2.	Tree Pipit 03:53	buy track
3.	Willow Warbler 04:36	buy track
4.	Spotted Flycatcher 03:37	buy track
5.	Edge of the Peatmarsh 04:32	buy track
6.	Bramblings 05:08	buy track
7.	Song Thrush 03:23	buy track
8.	Common Snipe Display Flight 02:04	buy track
9.	Siskins 06:08	buy track
10.	Three-toed Woodpecker 07:46	buy track
11.	Fieldfares 05:51	buy track
12.	Tree Pipit Returns 04:31	buy track
13.	Cries of Whimbrels 06:42	buy track
14.	Waterfowl Alighting 07:55	buy track
15.	Greenshank 01:49	buy track
16.	A Redstart in the Boreal Wind 05:53	buy track

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Taiga - the great forests of the far north, the most extensive habitat on earth.

Here the landscape is vast; a mosaic of conifer forest and sodden peatbogs, threaded with streams and lakes.

As the blue light of a midsummer dawn silhouettes the landscape, Tree Pipits and Willow Warblers sing melodiously from song perches atop tall conifers. Bramblings and small parties of Siskins flit overhead, filling the air with their delicate calls.

Across open ground drift the eerie calls of whimbrels and the sharp piping of a greenshank. Snipe display in flight, and ducks splash-land on open water.

As wind stirs the treetops, a lone redstart sings, its intricate trills fragile against the elements.

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We made these recordings on the high plains of the Scandinavian upland. Based at a small hut on the edge of a vast wilderness area, each day we would set out at midnight to walk into this area to record and photograph. Despite being midsummer, the air was cool and snow seemed an ever-present possibility.

It was a place of elemental beauty - a landscape animated by wind and birdsong and the flow of water. Silence was also a presence; distant moose grazing, a rare Siberian Jay perched overhead or a beaver gliding silently upstream.

Sounds drifted from far off in the still air, and in this recording you can hear the immensity of the northern wilderness.

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released June 19, 2012

Recording location:
Drevdagan, Sweden

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Andrew is a master wildlife field recordist. For over 30 years, he and partner / photographer Sarah Koschak have been documenting the voices of the world's ecosystems and wild creatures. The resulting recordings have been published through their dedicated label: Listening Earth ... more

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