Listen to Rainforest Sounds

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1. Rainforest creatures
   
2. Amazon jungle with distant howler monkeys, insects and birds
   
3. Rainforest ambience
   
4. Ambience, different forest
   
5. Ambience, another forest
   

Birds

1. Chachalaca birds chatter
   
2. Blue-and-yellow Macaw
   Ara ararauna recorded by Bennett Hennessey
   
3. Red-shouldered Macaw calls at stream
   Diopsittaca nobilis recorded by Jarrod Swackhamer in Brazil
   
4. Parrot in Amazon
   
5. Macaw (upset)
   
6. Cockatoo (shrieks)
   
7. Coot call
   
8. Amazonian Grosbeak song
   Cyanoloxia rothschildii with Fawn-breasted Wren and Screaming Piha in background —recorded by Richard E. Webster
   
9. Amazonian Royal Flycatcher
   Onychorhynchus coronatus recorded by Felipe Arantes
   
10. Amazonian Inezia
    Inezia subflava recorded by Peter Boesman in Columbia, with dove and rooster in the background
    
11. Amazonian Antpitta
    Hylopezus berlepschi recorded by Fernando Igor de Godoy, Purus River, Brazil
    
12. Amazonian Pygmy Owl
    recorded by Juha Honkala at Iracema Falls Brazil
    
13. Amazonian Antshrike
    Thamnophilus amazonicus cinereiceps recorded by Marina Maximiano in Iranduba, Brazil
    
14. Guinea Hen
    
15. Kookaburra
    
16. Kookaburras
    
17. Kookaburras (different & longer)
    
18. Toucan (Chesnut Mandibled)
    
19. Yellow-throated Toucan duet
    Ramphastos ambiguus recorded by Joost van Bruggen
    
20. Birds flapping wings
    
21. Crow
    
22. Magpie
    
23. Spectacled Owl (Amazon)
    
24. Rainforest Scops Owl
    
25. Different owl hooting
    
26. Parrot squawking
    
27. Woodpecker
    
28. Rooster in native camp
    
29. Bird chirps
    
30. Bird cry
    
31. Bird song 1
    
32. Bird song 2
    
33. Another bird’s song
    
34. Bird with strange warning sound
    

Insects

1. Mosquito
   
2. Wasp building nest
   
3. Rainforest Cicada (Borneo)
   
4. Crickets
   
5. Crickets, longer
   
6. Buzzing insect
   
7. Bee
   
8. Bees swarming
   

Reptiles

1. Snake hissing
   
2. Lizard Eating
   

Amphibians

1. Frog in rainforest
   
2. Tropical frogs
   
3. Tree frogs (night)
   
4. Frog 2
   
5. Frogs
   
6. Frog (small)
   

See: FROGS in the Bible

Felines / Cats

1. Jaguar (scary)
   
2. Angry tiger (scary)
   
3. Tiger 2
   
4. Tiger 3
   
5. Cats fighting
   some natives have pet cats and sometimes they fight
   
6. Lion roar—In modern times, lions no longer live in rainforests, but we included a couple because they sound scary.
   
7. Lion
   
   See: Lions in the Bible

Monkeys and Apes

1. Monkey calls, jungle night
   
2. Howler monkeys (distant, before dawn)
   
3. Chimpanzee
   
4. Silverback Gorilla, defensive call
   
5. Monkey
   
6. Monkey chatter
   
7. Monkey, another
   
8. Monkeys
   
9. Ape, another
   

Bats

1. Bats
   

Elephants

Yes, some elephants do live in rainforests in southeast Asia, Borneo, and in some parts of Africa. Indian elephants can weigh up to 3000 pounds and eat up to 700 pounds of trees, grasses, and bamboo per day. Some are used to help in rainforest logging operations.

1. Elephant warning
   recorded by Marc Anderson, Lower Kinabatangan River, Sabah, Borneo
   
2. Elephant howling in distance
   
   
3. Elephant, closer
   
4. Elephant, another
   

Other Mammals

1. Hippopotamus
   
2. Pig screech
   
3. Pig snort
   many natives raise them
   
4. Pig jumping in water
   
5. Dog barking in jungle camp
   

Water

1. Stream, fast-flowing
   
2. Morning ambience (South America)
   
3. Night ambience
   
4. Animal crossing a stream
   
5. Waterfall, large
   
6. Stream, small
   
7. River
   
8. Beach (short)
   
9. Fire burning the forest
   

Weather

1. Rain and campfire
   
2. Rain, light
   
3. Rain, heavy
   
4. Rain storm
   
5. Thunder and rain
   
6. Windy storm (short)
   
7. Thunder A
   
8. Thunder B
   
9. Hurricane/Typhoon
   

People

1. Native Flute
   
2. Canoe paddling
   
3. Walking through dense forest
   
4. Drum
   
5. Drum (distant)
   
6. Cutting tree with an axe
   
7. Tree falling
   
8. Filling vehicle with cut wood
   
9. Stirring cooking pot
   
10. Boiling stew pot
    
11. Gun shots in the jungle (close)
    
12. Gun shots in the jungle (distant)
    
13. Rifle shots
    

Music

1. Bamboo Flute
   
2. Flutes (music)
   

Sounds from Space

1. Astronaut’s description of EARTH (Apollo 8 mission to Moon)
   
2. Reading from GENESIS (Apollo 8 Moon mission)
   
3. PRAYER from Apollo 8 Moon mission astronaut
   

Article Version: January 7, 2026