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Curve-billed Tinamou Sounds: Song, Call & More

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

Curve-billed Tinamou
Photo: (c) Thibaud Aronson, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) / CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

This page documents the voice of the Curve-billed Tinamou (Nothoprocta curvirostris) 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 Curve-billed Tinamou profile — plumage, size, range and where to see one.

The Curve-billed Tinamou has 4 field recordings on Birbs covering 4 kinds of sound: its song, call, alarm call and flight 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.

Curve-billed Tinamou — Song

Recorded by José María Loaiza B. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Call 1 recording

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.

Curve-billed Tinamou — Call

Recorded by Juan Freile Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Alarm call 1 recording

Alarm calls are short, sharp, urgent notes given when a predator or other threat is near — often understood by other species too.

Recorded by José María Loaiza B. 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.

Curve-billed Tinamou — Flight call

Recorded by Juan Freile 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)