On the occasion of International Beaver Day, I present a selection of recordings of beaver noises that I recorded in the Natura 2000 area of the Orawsko-Nowotarskie peat bogs at the beginning of 2025. The area is long overdue for an Orava National Park including a complex of bog forests and raised bogs.
The first recording „Bobrze biadolenie” (‘Beaver wailing’) is the sound of beaver vocalisations. The second recording “Diastema” is a recording of the sounds of eating and chopping wood. Both recordings were made in the beaver floodplain located between Puścizna Rękowiańska and Baligówka bog.
The third recording „Plusk” (‘Splash!’) was recorder in the middle part of the border river Jeleśnia and is a recording of how a beaver, escaping from a real or potential threat, strongly strikes the water surface with its tail and runs away.