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Flying Steamer Duck Sounds: Song & Call

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

Flying Steamer Duck
Photo: Murray Foubister / CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

This page documents the voice of the Flying Steamer Duck (Tachyeres patachonicus) 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 Flying Steamer Duck profile — plumage, size, range and where to see one.

The Flying Steamer Duck 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.

Flying Steamer Duck — Song, Courtship.

Recorded by Eduardo Quintanilla 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.

Flying Steamer Duck — Call, contact call

Recorded by Eduardo Quintanilla Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Flying Steamer Duck — Call

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

Flying Steamer Duck — Call, song

Recorded by Ross Gallardy 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)