Martyn Stewart

Martyn Stewart is a British audio naturalist who has been described as the "David Attenborough of sound". His work has been used in many documentaries over the years. He started doing nature field recordings at the age of 19; over the years he has recorded sounds of now extinct species.

Career Stewart became interested in nature as a child. By age eleven, he spent "countless hours in the woods near his family’s home in Birmingham, England". His first field recording was the song of a eurasian blackbird, using a microphone borrowed from his musician brother.

By 2024, Stewart had made 97,000 recordings totaling 30,000 hours. These recordings included over 3,500 species of birds, insects, frogs, toads, and mammals.

Personal life Stewart was born in Birmingham. His childhood "was poverty stricken, marked by stretches without electricity or food". He is a lifelong atheist and a vegan, with the exception of cow's milk in his tea. He was diagnosed with bone cancer in December 2020.