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Tundra Bean Goose Sounds: Call & Flight call

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

Tundra Bean Goose
Photo: 邱文強 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

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

The Tundra Bean Goose has 4 field recordings on Birbs covering 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.

Tundra Bean Goose — Call, dawn song, flight call

Recorded by Beata Głębocka Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Tundra Bean Goose — Call

Recorded by Peter Boesman Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Flight call 2 recordings

Flight calls are the notes a bird gives on the wing, helping flocks stay together — and a key way researchers monitor nocturnal migration.

Tundra Bean Goose — Nocturnal flight call

Recorded by Chèvremont Fabian Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Tundra Bean Goose — Flight call

Recorded by Romuald Mikusek 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)