Noisy by Nature

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ABC Kids listen radio and podcasts are about to have a brand-new home! We’re packing up and moving over to the ABC listen app. There you’ll find a kids’ tab where you can create your very own kids’ profile and pick a fun avatar! For awesome podcasts to play, music to move to and stories and soundtracks for sleep, ask your grown-up to head to the kids’ tab on the ABC listen app. You can download it free from your app store. If you have any questions relating to this change, more information can be found here . For more great kids podcasts, download the free ABC listen app (Australia). There you’ll find more kids news podcasts, educational children’s stories and storytelling, podcasts from your favourite characters like Bluey and Hey Duggee and plenty more of the best podcasts for curious kids like Imagine This, Dino Dome and News Time. For all ages from 0–4-year-olds, 5–8-year-olds, 8–10-year-olds, tweens and teens. And you can watch our kids shows on ABC iview and on the ABC Kids and ABC Big Kids channels of YouTube kids.

Tonight, Ann is off on a desert adventure – it is very sandy and there are lots of grass trees and glowing ghost gums. Dig, dig, dig. Who is that scratching and sniffing with their strong claws?

Ann is very excited – it's boardgame night with her friends... but, who is that running along the roof with sharp little claws?

In Curtain Fig National Park, Ann can hear someone screeching and chatting over breakfast. It is someone wearing glasses!

Away from the human noise of Melbourne, Ann finds some peace in a thick pine forest. But, not for long. Someone is calling out from the trees – announcing that breakfast has been served.

It's drip, drip, dripping with rain in the rainforest - but then it stop. Ann tries to take off her rainjacket. Ooops, she’s stuck. Who is that laughing at her nearby?

When us humans are getting ready to go to sleep at night – a lot of animals are just waking up.

Ann is hoping to spot a baby with long legs and ears - who might tumble out of a pouch. But, what is that noise? It sounds a bit like a sheep, but there are no farms around here.

Today, Ann is looking for buried treasure - but it's not gold or jewels that she's hoping to find. But eggs!

Ann is off to join a big family, enjoying a get together on the beach. But there's no surfing, beach cricket or picnic rugs here. There is one very hungry baby though - and it's noisily putting in its lunch order.

Ann is hiking through Kalbarri National Park, WA, and there's a family out for brunch - but why is that little one making such a loud, persistent noise?

Ann is going for a late afternoon stroll along an island when she sees that someone has been building a sand castle - but there's no towers, or moat or draw bridge. Ahhh, it's not a sand castle, but a nest. She takes a listen to the eggs inside, where the babies are just starting to hatch.

Ann is off on an adventure with her friend Christine – they are going to listen to all the animals that live on a shelf. No, not a kitchen shelf, but a huge underwater rock formation.

Ann is on a boat, 50km off the coast of WA – headed to the Bremer Sub-Basin, which is home to apex predators.

Today, Ann has on her stinger suit and is going scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef with Juan Carlos Azofeifa-Solano.

Is that mermaid hair floating in Fortescue Bay, Tasmania? Ah, no, it’s the fronds of a giant kelp forests. Ann and her friend Leah Barclay dive under the water to explore.

Ann is kayaking on the Swan River in Perth with her friend Miles Parsons – they drop the hydrophone to listen to the animals under the water.

Hello, Ann Jones here, your resident noisy by nature nerd. There are some places that are much harder to get to, and animals that only live under the water. What sounds do they make? Grab your snorkel, mask and your flippers and get ready to take your listening ears underwater this World Oceans Day, Saturday, June the 8th, only on the Noisy by Nature podcast.

Right now, Ann is in an ancient maze - Purnululu National Park. She spies a deep crevice and hears some very strange sounds coming from the dark inside. Are those... ghosts?