This page contains the audio files referenced in Call of the Kingfisher by Nick Penny in chronological order by month.
You may download these files for personal use only. For any other use please contact the author.
January
1.1 Great spottedwoodpecker drumming (6 January)
1.2 Mistle thrush song (6 January)
1.3 Kingfisher: ‘tzee’ call (10 January)
1.4 Robin song (25 January)
February
2.5 Ravens (6 February)
2.6 Skylark song (6 February)
2.7 Great spotted woodpecker tapping quietly by the river (12 February)
March
3.8 Blackbirds (5 March)
3.9 Kingfisher calls (11 March)
3.10 Chiffchaff (18 March)
3.11 Mistle thrush (20 March)
3.12 Dawn chorus at Glapthorn (28 March)
3.13 Blackcap (29 March)
April
4.14 Willow warbler (10 April)
4.15 Song thrush (10 April)
4.16 Solo nightingale (10 April)
4.17 Cuckoo (14 April)
4.18 Dawn chorus in Southwick Forest (18 April)
4.19 Reed warbler (21 April)
4.20 Grasshopper warbler (22 April)
4.21 Turtle dove (26 April)
May
5.22 Bubbling trill of a female cuckoo between two nightingales (7 May)
5.23 Evening chorus in Southwick Forest (15 May)
5.24 Muntjac deer (15 May)
5.25 Barn owls (15 May)
5.26 Kingfisher chicks churring quietly in the nest (27 May)
5.27 Midwife toads (28 May)
June
6.28 Evening chorus with blackbirds (12 June)
6.29 Mute swan in flight (16 June)
July
7.30 Raven and rook on the Pembrokeshire coast (5–10 July)
August
8.31 Kingfisher calls (13 August)
8.32 Kingfisher calls slowed down on a computer (13 August)
8.33 Buzzard (28 August)
September
9.34 Tawny owls (5 September)
9.35 Grey heron (16 September)
9.36 Five kingfishers (16 September)
9.37 Robin singing during church bell practice (26 September)
October
10.38 Green woodpecker (6 October)
10.39 Rutting fallow deer stag (18 October)
November
11.40 Whooper swan (30 November)
December
12.41 Geese and wigeon (2 December)
12.42 Rooks (15 December)