Earworm Extra - Listener Lyrebirds
From the hundreds of sounds sent into Off Track, we've selected all the Lyrebird recordings. An earworm extra for the series 'Sex, lyres and audiotape.'
Jun 30, 2019•23 min
Off Track
Off Track, with Ann Jones, is an Australian radio show and podcast which combines the relaxing sounds of nature with awesome stories of wildlife and environmental science, all recorded in the outdoors.
Episodes
Lyrebirds - Lyre, lyre, dancefloors on fire
You might think you know the story of the lyrebird. Think again. And then listen to this ear-bending series called 'Sex, lyres and audiotape.'
Jun 28, 2019•25 min
Earworm Extra - a morning in a valley
An earworm extra for the series 'Sex, lyres and audiotape.' Listen to the sound of dawn in peak mating season for superb lyrebirds
Jun 25, 2019•11 min
Earworm Extra - lyrebird flute song
The story goes that a local lyrebird copied a young boy who played the flute, but regardless of its provenance, Carol Probets' recording of this lyrebird flute song is astounding.
Jun 23, 2019•5 min
Lyrebirds - Repeat after me
You might think you know the story of the lyrebird. Think again. And then listen to this ear-bending series called 'Sex, lyres and audiotape.'
Jun 21, 2019•25 min
PRESENTING: How Deadly with Ann Jones
There's some new nature-nerdery going on over on the ABC Science YouTube Channel and it features Off Track's Ann Jones. http://bit.ly/howdeadly
Jun 17, 2019•1 min
Go, Dog, Go! [re-issue]
Are these the happiest hounds in Australia? We think so, and that's why we're playing this one from the Off Track archive.
Jun 14, 2019•25 min
Off Track presents - Branch Out
Do you need a brain to be able to sense the world around you, or to remember or learn?
Jun 08, 2019•22 min
Talking frogs, thinking plants
It's a very noisy world out in Australian nature, and sometimes all you need to do is stop and listen (to this).
Jun 07, 2019•25 min
Moaning birds, vegetarian rodents and the moon man
Muttonbird Island in NSW is a place of majesty. It's just that the majesty crash lands in the moonlight and sounds like a squeezy toy.
May 31, 2019•25 min
Barbara York Main - Australia's spider woman
The reserve at North Bungulla is quiet all day until the winds of the evening make the trees creak in the falling light. The winds bring the news that Barbara York Main has died.
May 24, 2019•25 min
Water finds a way
All around us and within, water is an intimate, essential part of our lives. What would we do if water lost her way?
May 17, 2019•25 min
When Water Lost Her Way
Listen to the audio book version of the Australian Children's book 'When Water Lost Her Way' by Meg Humphrys.
May 15, 2019•8 min
A sense of time
Does a second feel the same for a fly, a bird, or a swordfish, as it does for me? From the BBC World Service, immerse yourself in the world of animal senses.
May 10, 2019•25 min
Owl with attitude
A powerful avian predator is making do in Melbourne's suburbs. For now.
May 03, 2019•25 min
Professor Waterhouse's wonderful plant [re-issue]
Professor Peter Waterhouse and the wonder plant Nicotiana benthamiana.
Apr 26, 2019•25 min
Earworms from Planet Earth VIII
Angry sheep or randy frog? Motorbike or koala rev? Indigestion or monkey? Get the headphones out for another set of wild sounds sent in by Off Track listeners from around the globe.
Apr 19, 2019•25 min
Gone fish - pygmy perch pushed too far
The tiny Yarra pygmy perch, with golden sheen and teardrop eye, has been pushed to extinction in the Murray Darling Basin. Now, all hopes for its return are focussed on a couple of farm dams.
Apr 12, 2019•25 min
The bilby, the moon and the Birriliburu Rangers
A bilby dreaming story guides a mother with a sick child to an outback town. Decades later, the child returns to repay the favour and look after the bilby.
Apr 05, 2019•26 min
Ninety one years in the desert
Jack Absalom has died at the age of 91. From parrot poacher to painter, Absalom was a renaissance bushie with a story or two to tell.
Mar 29, 2019•26 min
Teenage quolls are V-I-SQUEE
It’s a momentous night for this teenage eastern quoll – she’s leaving home.
Mar 22, 2019•26 min
Off Track presents Queer Out Here
A crowd sourced audio zine that celebrates the world outside walls from the perspective of LGBQTIA+ people from all over the world.
Mar 15, 2019•26 min
Off Track presents HumaNature
Not quite tame, not quite wild.
Mar 08, 2019•26 min
Off Track presents HumaNature
Not quite tame, not quite wild.
Mar 08, 2019•26 min
Off Track presents Outside/In
It turns out, some forests love fire.
Mar 01, 2019•26 min
The Chase 3 — Tracks across time
A team races against time and the elements to save 95-million-year-old dinosaur footprints in the Aussie outback.
Feb 22, 2019•27 min
The Chase 3 — Trouble in paradise
Rats and mosquitoes threaten a fragile ecosystem on an isolated Tahitian atoll — but now scientists are trialling new techniques to rid the islands of destructive pests.
Feb 15, 2019•26 min
The Chase 2 — Back from the dead
Obsessives, dumpy birds and disapproving academics: the saga of the night parrot.
Feb 08, 2019•26 min
The Chase — Eye in the sky
How do you catch the shadow of a moon? You need a telescope with wings. Join the flight of a lifetime on SOFIA, the airborne observatory.
Feb 01, 2019•27 min
Eight legged wonder of the world
Spiders can be beautiful, timid, fluffy and even give up their lives for the sake of their children. [repeat]
Jan 25, 2019•26 min