Big Sky Country
This podcast takes you deep into the bush. Travel our vast country, from the eucalypt woodlands of central Victoria, to the plains of Arnhem Land.
Meet experts in ecology, culture, conservation and country. Learn about seasons and ceremony, tiny fish, phascogale sex, and the sounds a tree makes when it dies.
Discover more about this precious and precarious land from the people protecting it against a barrage of ever-growing threats.
Listen to Big Sky Country
Bird songs
Meet one of our long‑term supporters, the late John Hutchinson, whose early interest in electronics and his love of the Australian bush led him to create the world’s pre‑eminent collection of Western Australian bird songs.
Having stumbled quite accidentally across his life’s work, John spent close to 60 years criss‑crossing the outback in pursuit of the most beautiful and elusive songs.
John's recordings