Mallard Sounds: Call, Flight call & Begging call
Hear what the Mallard sounds like: real field recordings including its call, flight call and begging call, each played with its recordist's credit and licence.
This page documents the voice of the Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) through real field recordings, grouped by the kind of sound each one captures. Every clip is a real recording made in the wild, played with its recordist's credit and licence — listen section by section to tell this bird's different sounds apart.
Pair what you hear with the full Mallard profile — plumage, size, range and where to see one.
The Mallard has 4 field recordings on Birbs — 3 of them classified across 3 kinds of sound: its call, flight call and begging call.
Call 1 recording
Calls are the short, simple notes birds use all year round — to stay in contact, coordinate with a flock, or react to what is happening around them.
Flight call 1 recording
Flight calls are the notes a bird gives on the wing, helping flocks stay together — and a key way researchers monitor nocturnal migration.
Begging call 1 recording
Begging calls are the persistent, insistent notes of chicks and fledglings soliciting food from their parents.
More recordings 1 recording
Recordings whose sound type the recordist didn't specify.
About these recordings
The audio comes from the xeno-canto community archive, where field recordists share their recordings under Creative Commons licences. Each player shows who recorded the clip and the licence it is shared under, and links through to the recording's own page. Recording quality and background noise vary — these are wild birds recorded in the field, not studio audio.
Birds in this guide
Least Concern
Birb mood:
the park-pond classic
