South Africa 2025 is a 4-minute soundscape recorded and created by Carol Ann Weaver while she was in Kruger National Park, South Africa, from Nov. 2 – Dec. 7, 2025 . All recordings represent natural sounds of birds, animals, and various wildlife she heard during this time in Kruger, 2025. The soundscape travels from dawn till dusk, representing the sounds typically heard as the day unfolds. Here are the times when various sounds occur.
“Dawn to Dusk: South Africa 2025” (a 4-minute soundscape)
0:00 Crested Barbet song (melodic)
0:03 Red-eyed Dove (with background snapping sounds made by Vervet Monkeys, waking up)
0:10 Dark-capped Bulbul
0:13 African Paradise-Flycatcher
0:17 Black-headed Oriole
0:27 Red-eyed Dove call (rhythmic sounds)
0:33 Black-headed Oriole (continuing)
0:46 Dark-capped Bulbul
0:53 Red-eyed Dove
0:56 Woodland Kingfisher
1:00 Red-capped Robin-Chat
1:00 Cape Turtle-Dove (background)
1:08 Grey-headed Bush-Shrike
1:23 Red-capped Robin-Chat (“seventy three, seventy three”)
1:28 Orange-breasted Bush-Shrike
1:34 Red-chested Cuckoo (“Piet my Frau”)
1:42 Magpie Shrikes
1:48 Red-crested Koorhan – accelerating taps
1:57 Red-crested Koorhan – sharp calls
2:03 Magpie Shrike
2:04 Impala – warning call about a lurking cheetah
2:12 Baboons – solo, then call and response
2:23 Hippos – basso profondo calls
2:47 Lion
2:54 White-browed Scrub-Robin
3:05 Black-crowned Tchagra (in dialogue with Scrub-robin)
3:21 Monontonous Larks
3:39 Frogs (emerging)
3:40 African Scops Owl
3:42 Fiery-necked Nightjar, with cicadas coming and going
3:47 Frogs (stronger, then fading out)
(Photo by CAW: Olifants River, Nov. 18, 2025)


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