Emu Sounds: Drumming & Call
Hear what the Emu sounds like: real field recordings including its drumming and call, each played with its recordist's credit and licence.
This page documents the voice of the Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) 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 Emu profile — plumage, size, range and where to see one.
The Emu has 4 field recordings on Birbs — 3 of them classified across 2 kinds of sound: its drumming and call.
Drumming 1 recording
Drumming is a mechanical (non-vocal) sound — most famously a woodpecker striking wood in rapid bursts — that serves the same territorial role as song.
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.
More recordings 1 recording
Recordings whose sound type the recordist didn't specify.
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.
Birds in this guide
Least Concern
