I recorded this in 2015 as background ambience for an audio drama. The cracking and plopping noises are by the surrounding trees, because they had these exploding seeds, yo may remember from biology classes. :).
The summer tanager in the middle of heavy forest in the midwest. Other birds are heard in the background, but the prominent singer is the summer tanager. Recorded in may of 2017 with the marantz pmd661 using the beyerdynamic me58 microphone.