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Little Tinamou Sounds: Song, Duet & Call

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

Little Tinamou
Photo: Gary L.Clark / CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

This page documents the voice of the Little Tinamou (Crypturellus soui) 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 Little Tinamou profile — plumage, size, range and where to see one.

The Little Tinamou has 5 field recordings on Birbs covering 3 kinds of sound: its song, duet and call.

Song 3 recordings

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.

Little Tinamou — Song

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

Little Tinamou — Song

Recorded by Manuel Sánchez-Nivicela Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Little Tinamou — Song, subsong

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

Little Tinamou — Duet, song

Recorded by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA 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.

Little Tinamou — Call

Recorded by José María Loaiza B. 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)