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Red-winged Tinamou Sounds: Song & Flight call

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

Red-winged Tinamou
Photo: David F. Belmonte / CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

This page documents the voice of the Red-winged Tinamou (Rhynchotus rufescens) 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-winged Tinamou profile — plumage, size, range and where to see one.

The Red-winged Tinamou has 5 field recordings on Birbs — 4 of them classified across 2 kinds of sound: its song and flight 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.

Red-winged Tinamou — Song

Recorded by Marcos E. Sosa Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Red-winged Tinamou — Song

Recorded by Robson Silva e Silva Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Red-winged Tinamou — Song, subsong

Recorded by Jacob Wijpkema Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Flight call 1 recording

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

Red-winged Tinamou — Flight call

Recorded by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

More recordings 1 recording

Recordings whose sound type the recordist didn't specify.

Red-winged Tinamou — ?

Recorded by Robson Silva e Silva Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.5

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)