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Red-breasted Goose Sounds: Song & Call

Hear what the Red-breasted Goose sounds like: real field recordings including its song and call, each played with its recordist's credit and licence.

Red-breasted Goose
Photo: Frebeck / CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

This page documents the voice of the Red-breasted Goose (Branta ruficollis) 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 Red-breasted Goose profile — plumage, size, range and where to see one.

The Red-breasted Goose 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.

Red-breasted Goose — Song

Recorded by Pascal Christe Licence: CC BY-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.

Red-breasted Goose — Call, flight call

Recorded by Petr Hampl Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Red-breasted Goose — Call

Recorded by Ruud van Beusekom Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Red-breasted Goose — Call, flight call

Recorded by Grégoire Chauvot Licence: Public Domain

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)