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Brown Tinamou Sounds: Song & Call

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

Brown Tinamou
Photo: Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

This page documents the voice of the Brown Tinamou (Crypturellus obsoletus) 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 Brown Tinamou profile — plumage, size, range and where to see one.

The Brown Tinamou has 4 field recordings on Birbs — 3 of them classified across 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.

Brown Tinamou — Song

Recorded by Odirlei Vieira da Fonseca Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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.

Brown Tinamou — Call, duet, song

Recorded by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Brown Tinamou — Call

Recorded by Marcos E. Sosa Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

More recordings 1 recording

Recordings whose sound type the recordist didn't specify.

Brown Tinamou — Uncertain

Recorded by David F. Belmonte 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)