Nature just never ceases to sort of throw out surprises and at you things that you never thought

that you'd hear or see when you're out and about.

And I hear something in the background there.

Is that what are we hearing?

It's probably one of the next-door neighbors dogs.

You can't escape that no matter where you are.

I'm Sam Evans Brown and this is Outside In, a show about the natural world and how we use it.

And today we're sharing with you an episode of another

show that we really like. Can you just introduce yourself maybe? G'd a my name's

Anne and I present and produce off- which is a nature program from Australia and I range all around the Australian continent recording sounds.

See this tiny little bug here with the red abdomen?

There's one there.

Sometimes common sounds and sometimes really way out sounds that no one's ever heard before.

They make these really consistent regular clicks, which are

echolocation clicks.

Anne loves to record sounds. She's a self-described bird nerd, which from a geographical

perspective makes her very lucky because Australia is home to a lot of

really interesting birds. We have screamers and cluckers and you know they make all sorts of crazy little sounds.

But among all of the species of Australian birds there's one that has proven to be more elusive than just about any other.

The Night Parrot is a bird in Australia that sends bird people mad literally.

They'll be wandering around in the desert doing stupid things looking for this bird.

And remember Australia is huge. It's about the size of the entire

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