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Black-bellied Whistling Duck Sounds: Call & Flight call

Hear what the Black-bellied Whistling Duck sounds like: real field recordings including its call and flight call, each played with its recordist's credit and licence.

Black-bellied Whistling Duck
Photo: gary_leavens / CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

This page documents the voice of the Black-bellied Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis) 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 Black-bellied Whistling Duck profile — plumage, size, range and where to see one.

The Black-bellied Whistling Duck has 4 field recordings on Birbs covering 2 kinds of sound: its call and flight call.

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.

Black-bellied Whistling Duck — Call, song

Recorded by Manuel Sánchez-Nivicela Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Black-bellied Whistling Duck — Call

Recorded by Tristan Guillebot de Nerville Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Black-bellied Whistling Duck — Call, flight call, song

Recorded by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 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.

Black-bellied Whistling Duck — Nocturnal flight call

Recorded by Contina Lab at UTRGV Brownsville Licence: CC BY 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)