Geltsdale and Hadrian’s Wall: Bubbling Song (April)

The Geltsdale and Hadrian’s Wall Curlew LIFE project site in England covers 20,810 hectares along the Northumberland and Cumbria border. The area includes RSPB Geltsdale Nature Reserve, a patchwork of blanket bog, heath grassland, meadows and woodland habitats. Recorded alongside Tindale Tarn in Geltsdale, this soundscape captures the iconic bubbling songs of male curlews displaying to attract mates and defend their territories. The recording also features a cuckoo, and wing flaps of curlew pairs on the ground, surrounded by sheep and newborn lambs.

From Disc II of Simmerdim: Curlew Sounds.
Image by Francis J Taylor.

Species: curlew, song thrush, meadow pipit, pheasant, willow warbler, moorhen, canada goose, woodpigeon, cuckoo, red grouse, oystercatcher, wren, carrion crow, garden warbler.