News, features and updates from the RSPB

For countries in other parts of the world, the dawn chorus often sounds very different from what we are used to in the UK. Bird expert Dominic Couzens talked to some of the RSPB’s partners in far-flung places to find out what it sounds like to them.

The Sounds of… Reedbeds is your guide to the eclectic set list of calls which ebb and flow through places like the fens where land and water entwine.  This is a place where secretive birds seduce us with song, often the only clue they are there at all. Their trills, shrills, beeps and booms reverberate through the reeds and radiate the richness of life which lives in these hidden worlds at the water’s edge. 

The Sounds of…Uplands is your guide to the songs, shrieks, squawks and shrills which serenade us as we walk over high hills, fells, mountains and moors. This is a place which reverberates with the croaky call of ravens, the haunting cry of curlews and the amused chuckle red grouse.

The Sounds of… Farmland takes a look at the songs and calls which float over fields and hover above hedgerows when we step out into the great patchwork that makes up much of our countryside.

This is your guide to some of the brilliant birds whose songs accompany you as you head outside this spring and summer. The Sounds of… Coastal Cliffs surrounds you with the calls, cackles, shouts and seductive songs of the birds which love living life on the edge.  

This is your guide to some of the brilliant birds whose songs accompany you as you head out into the open air this spring and summer. The Sounds of… Heathlands takes you into wide open landscapes scented with heather and gorse, where birds fly across big skies.  

This is your guide to some of the brilliant birds whose songs accompany you as you head out into the open air this spring and summer. The Sounds of… Woodlands takes you on a sun dappled audio tour of the birds which choose to live among the trees.  

This is your guide to some of the brilliant birds whose songs accompany you as you head out into the open air this spring and summer. The Sounds of… Parks and Gardens includes some of the more well-known birds which appear in our towns, cities and countryside. In fact some of them, like the wren, appear almost anywhere. 

This is your guide to some of the brilliant birds whose songs accompany you as you head out into the open air this spring and summer. The Sounds of… Parks and Gardens –  Tits and Finches includes some of the more well-known birds which appear in our towns, cities and countryside. In fact some of them, like the blue tit, appear almost anywhere.