Contact me by email: di.hope@asu.edu if you are interested in purchasing sounds. Typical cost US$30-50/min/sound.

Audio logos designed to order - using a wide range of natural and electronic sounds

Sounds available for purchase include:

Mammals

Abert's Squirrel - squeaks, claws on tree bark

Baird's Tapir - munching & snuffling

Bats - Cave Winged (squeaks) & Frog Eating (chewing a frog!)

Bison - upclose grunts and whole herd soundscapes

Black bear - grunts & growls

Bob Cat - various soft growls & fierce roar

Coatis - snuffling & eating

Collared Pecary - snuffles, snorts, grunts, munching

Coyotes - chorus & single echoing calls

Elk - including barks & bugles (night soundscape with echoes)

Howler monkeys - contact calls, male & female howls, abandoned baby

Javelina - grunts & teeth clack warning

Prairie dogs - Gunnison's & Black Tailed (including below ground)

Red Squirrel - alarm calls

Spider Monkey - close mic'd breathy snuffling, eating

White-faced monkeys - contact calls, grunts, eating fruit

 

Amphibians & Reptiles

Arizona Mountain Tree Frogs

Banded Rock Rattlesnake - a small species, sounds delicate

Chorus Frogs - start up & full-blown chorus

Gila Monster - hissing & heavy breathing of an aggressive adult male

Northern Leopard Frog - definitive snore & chuckle

Tungara Frogs (Panama) - sound like a computer game - fantastic!!

Woodhouse Toad

Western Diamondback Rattlesnake - large 'classic-sounding' rattler

 

Birds

Acorn Woodpecker

Barn Owl

Buff-breasted Wren (Panama)

Buff-necked Ibis (Patagonia)

Burrowing Owl - male hoot, feet running down burrow

Cactus Wren

Canada Geese - flying by, roosting on lake

Caracara

Checkered Throated Ant Wren (Panama)

Chestnut Backed Antbird (Panama)

Chestnut Headed Oropendula (Panama)

Cocoa Woodcreeper (Panama)

Crows

Crossbills

Eurasian Eagle Owl - soft hoots, whine & hiss

Ferruginous Hawk

Gray-necked Wood Rail (Panama)

Greater Anis (Panama)

Great Horned Owl

Great Tailed Grackle

Great Tinamu (Panama)

Harris Hawk

Hermit Thrush

Horned Larks - in dusk prarie soundscape

Hummingbirds - Anna's, Costa's, Broad-billed, Broadtailed, Magnificent, Rufous

Keel Billed Toucan (Panama)

Kildeer

Mexican Jay

Northern Flicker

Osprey - adults calling on & around a nest

Parrots - Burrowing, Mealy Amazons, Red-Lored Amazon, Scarlet Macaws, Red & Green Macaws

Pinyon jays - individual calls & in windswept pine forest soundscape

Pygmy Nuthatch

Raven - Common & Chihuahuan

Roadrunner

Rufous Mot Mot (Panama)

Slaty-tailed Trogon (Panama)

Smooth-billed Anis (Panama)

Spotted Antbird (Panama)

Stella's Jays

Swans - fly-over (sound of wings creaking)

Western Meadowlark -echoing calls in early morning soundscape

Western Slaty Antshrike (Panama)

Western Screech Owl - very close mic'd

White Breasted Nuthatch

Yellow Green Vireo (Panama)

Various grassland & desert scrub species (e.g. Botteri's Sparrow, Varied Bunting)

 

Invertebrates

Army ant swarm - sound of their feet

Leaf cutter ants - leaves bumping together as they carry them

Cicacadas

Crickets - various species, types & speeds of chirping

Cockchaffer Beetle

Cockroach

Carpenter Bee

Katydids

Fiddler crabs - scampering across sand

Flies

Grasshoppers

Honey Bees

Mosquitos

Moths

Painted Ghost Crabs (Panama) - burrowing, stridulating in burrow

Pistol shrimps - clicking underwater (hydrophone recording)

Wasps

 

Domestic Animals

Cat

Cattle

Horses - whinnying, snorting, stallion pawing the ground, galloping hooves

Hen with chicks

Turkeys gobbling

 

Soundscapes

Grassland dusk with cricket chorus

High altitude lake at dusk

Horse auction

Insect soundscape - composite portrait from dawn through dusk to night time

Mangrove swamps - dawn, midday, dusk

Mountain top in summer at midday

Ocean - waves on beach, nearby & distant surf, estuarine mudflats

Ponderosa pine forest - dawn (with woodpecker drumming) & dusk with songbirds

Prairie grassland with bison herd and prairie dogs

Rain on tin roof

Rivers - various from trickling spring to flood

Rodeo

Sand Dunes - singing sands (Mohave desert)

Sonoran desert spring dawn & dusk

Tropical rain forest - dawn chorus at levels from ground to canopy top

Tropical forest rainstorm sequence - from distant thunder to full-blown downpour

Tropical rainforest at night

Thunder

Rain - from pitter-patter to tropical deluge

Underwater - clickings & poppings of fish (hydrophone recording)

Wind - various

 

Human-related sounds

Aztec dancers - Mexico City

Bells - (old schoolhouse, courthouse)

Cash register opening - old fashioned type

Cooking over open fire

Crowd sounds - various, with & without traffic

English village with church bells

Farm yard (Mexico)

Flapping of a large flag on a flagpole

Fireworks

Hand hoeing (using digging stick)

Making tortillas by hand

Matate (hand-grinding corn)

Mexican street market

Obsidian tool making

Sonar beep - underwater (hydrophone recording)

Telephone - old fashioned wind up kind

Telegraph machine - tapping of the signal key, incoming morse code signal

Train station platform

Washing clothes - traditional, outdoors

 

Instruments

Conch shell trumpet

Large skin drum

Tibetan singing bowl

Tibetan meditation bell

Seed rattle

Waterphone

 

Machinery

Motorbikes (various)

Telescopes - domes & drives

Trains - freight (box cars, locomotive, horn), Amtrak, steam trains