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Swan Goose Sounds: Call & Flight call

Hear what the Swan Goose sounds like: real field recordings including its call and flight call, each played with its recordist's credit and licence.

Swan Goose
Photo: grihahasanov / CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

This page documents the voice of the Swan Goose (Anser cygnoides) 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 Swan Goose profile — plumage, size, range and where to see one.

The Swan Goose has 4 field recordings on Birbs — 3 of them classified across 2 kinds of sound: its call and flight call.

Call 2 recordings

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.

Swan Goose — Call

Recorded by Manuel Oudard Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Swan Goose — Call, flight call

Recorded by Ding Li Yong Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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.

Swan Goose — Flight call

Recorded by Manuel Oudard Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

More recordings 1 recording

Recordings whose sound type the recordist didn't specify.

Swan Goose — Song / call

Recorded by Filippo Ceccolini Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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.

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Sources & further reading

  1. xeno-canto (Creative-Commons bird sound archive — every recording credits its recordist) (opens in a new tab)
  2. IOC World Bird List (taxonomy & names) (opens in a new tab)