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Fulvous Whistling Duck Sounds: Song, Duet & Flight call

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

Fulvous Whistling Duck
Photo: Germano Roberto Schüür / CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

This page documents the voice of the Fulvous Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna bicolor) 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 Fulvous Whistling Duck profile — plumage, size, range and where to see one.

The Fulvous Whistling Duck has 4 field recordings on Birbs covering 3 kinds of sound: its song, duet 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.

Fulvous Whistling Duck — Song

Recorded by Leonardo Ordóñez-Delgado Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Duet 1 recording

A duet is coordinated singing by a mated pair — in some species so precisely timed that the two birds sound like one.

Fulvous Whistling Duck — Duet

Recorded by Nature sounds by Simply Birding Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Flight call 2 recordings

Flight calls are the notes a bird gives on the wing, helping flocks stay together — and a key way researchers monitor nocturnal migration.

Fulvous Whistling Duck — Flight call

Recorded by Franco Vushurovich Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Fulvous Whistling Duck — Nocturnal flight call

Recorded by Albert Noorlander 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)