Dawn Chorus
20 minFirst light, building from a few calls to everything at once: wood-wrens, tanagers, a cacique, a quetzal.
Canopy
Mindo cloud forest, Ecuador
Put the cloud forest on in the background.
Real bird recordings from the forests around Mindo, 1,250 m up the western slope of the Andes, over forest video. Listen while you work, or catch the hummingbirds at the feeder over breakfast.
- bird species recorded around Mindo
- 550+
- soundscapes, 12 to 20 minutes each
- 10
- days on the field-guide path
- 30
- bird species recorded around Mindo
- 550+
- soundscapes, 12 to 20 minutes each
- 10
- days on the field-guide path
- 30
Look around as anyone
No sign-up. Pick a role and you're in, with a month of sample data already there. Anything that would change that data for the next visitor is switched off.
Ten ways to hear the forest
Built from field recordings, and every bird in them was recorded in Ecuador. Press play for a 30-second taste.
Hummingbird Feeder
15 minChips and squabbles at a feeder: Brown and Lesser Violetears, Fawn-breasted Brilliant, Speckled Hummingbird.
Toucan Ridge
15 minToucan Barbets and Plate-billed Mountain-Toucans from the Tandayapa ridge, next valley over, with a Pale-mandibled Aracari.
Cock-of-the-rock Lek
12 minMale Andean Cock-of-the-rock squawking at their display ground in the late afternoon.
Tanager Flock
15 minGolden, Silver-throated, Beryl-spangled and Blue-winged Mountain Tanagers moving through in waves, then quiet.
Rain on the Canopy
20 minSteady rain on broad leaves, with a Grey-breasted Wood-Wren singing in the gaps.
River Valley
20 minRunning water over rocks, with Torrent Tyrannulets calling from the riverbed.
Cloud Drift
20 minWind moving through the upper forest, with a distant quetzal now and then. Kept quiet on purpose.
After Dark
20 minA stream at night and a little wind. No birds: the forest goes quiet after dark.
Canopy Lo-fi
15 min · musicSlow beats and soft chords with forest sound underneath. The music is generated, not recorded.
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Hummingbird Feeder15 min · 30-second previewPick a soundscape
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29 min leftof 30 freePress Start
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927 Feathers873 to GuideEarn feathers
One for every minute you listen. They move you from Fledgling up to Guide.
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Rain on the Canopy"Wood-wren in the rain."Keep field notes
Every session lands in your notes, ready for what you heard and looked up.
One bird a day
A short field-guide path: a bird or a fact from Mindo each day, paired with a soundscape. Miss a day and it waits for you.
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Day 9 · Hummingbirds
Booted Racket-tail
The male has two bare tail shafts that end in round rackets, and fluffy white feathers on its legs that look like boots.
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Day 21 · Milestone
Andean Cock-of-the-rock
At dawn the males gather at a display ground called a lek, bowing and squawking while the females watch.
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Day 27 · Rivers and night
Glass frogs
Several glass frogs live along Mindo's streams. You can see their organs through the skin of the belly.