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Ornate Tinamou Sounds: Song & Call

Hear what the Ornate Tinamou sounds like: real field recordings including its song and call, each played with its recordist's credit and licence.

Ornate Tinamou
Photo: Ron Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom / CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

This page documents the voice of the Ornate Tinamou (Nothoprocta ornata) 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 Ornate Tinamou profile — plumage, size, range and where to see one.

The Ornate Tinamou has 4 field recordings on Birbs covering 2 kinds of sound: its song and call.

Song 1 recording

The song is a bird's most elaborate vocalisation, used mainly to claim a territory and attract a mate. In many species it is sung mostly by males and peaks in the breeding season.

Ornate Tinamou — Song

Recorded by Niels Krabbe Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Call 3 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.

Ornate Tinamou — Call

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

Ornate Tinamou — Call, flush call

Recorded by Andrew Spencer Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.5
Recorded by Niels Krabbe Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

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)