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Lesser White-fronted Goose Sounds: Call & Flight call

Hear what the Lesser White-fronted Goose sounds like: real field recordings including its call and flight call, each played with its recordist's credit and licence.

Lesser White-fronted Goose
Photo: Hans Norelius from Älvsjö, Sweden / CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

This page documents the voice of the Lesser White-fronted Goose (Anser erythropus) 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 Lesser White-fronted Goose profile — plumage, size, range and where to see one.

The Lesser White-fronted Goose has 4 field recordings on Birbs covering 2 kinds of sound: its call and flight call.

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.

Lesser White-fronted Goose — Call

Recorded by Niclas Backstrom Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Lesser White-fronted Goose — Call

Recorded by Lars Edenius Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 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.

Lesser White-fronted Goose — Flight call

Recorded by Uku Paal Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Lesser White-fronted Goose — Flight call

Recorded by Johan Södercrantz 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)