The Fish Doorbell of Utrecht
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | When I had a cubicle job, I'd find all sorts of ways to break up the day. |
| 0:04.6 | I'd step out for my third cup of coffee, explore every other floor of the building. |
| 0:09.5 | And if I really wanted to escape, I'd turn on the eagle cam. |
| 0:15.0 | I could watch eaglitz chirp and sometimes tear apart a salmon high in a nest in a far-off national park. |
| 0:21.9 | I was temporarily transported away from the relentless one-on-one's and fluorescent overhead lights. |
| 0:27.6 | There are tons of critter cams out there. |
| 0:30.0 | I could watch a gazelle drink from the waterhole in Kenya, or spy on the drama at a bird |
| 0:35.0 | feeder in Hawaii. |
| 0:36.7 | But there's one live stream that takes things a step further. |
| 0:40.8 | One where you're not just watching wildlife. |
| 0:43.5 | You're actively involved. |
| 0:45.4 | I'm Alexa Lim and this is Atlas Obscira, |
| 0:48.2 | a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places. |
| 0:51.9 | Today, we're tuning into a camera streaming from a river in the Netherlands, |
| 0:56.1 | an underwater world where you can |
| 0:57.8 | peek in on local migrating fish. |
| 1:00.6 | And when the moment is right, |
| 1:02.1 | you get to push a button. |
| 1:04.0 | A doorbell, really. |
| 1:05.5 | A fish doorbell. |
| 1:07.3 | More after this. |
| 1:33.3 | Yeah. More after this. The city of Utrecht is located just southeast of Amsterdam. It's the fourth largest city in the Netherlands. |
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