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Thicket Tinamou Sounds: Song & Dawn song

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

Thicket Tinamou
Photo: John Gerrard Keulemans / Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)

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

The Thicket Tinamou has 4 field recordings on Birbs covering 2 kinds of sound: its song and dawn song.

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.

Thicket Tinamou — Song

Recorded by Manuel Grosselet Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Thicket Tinamou — Song

Recorded by Manuel Grosselet Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Thicket Tinamou — Song

Recorded by Luis Gomez Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Dawn song 1 recording

Dawn song is the concentrated burst of singing around first light, often faster and more intense than the same bird's daytime song.

Thicket Tinamou — Dawn song, song, subsong

Recorded by David Ruíz Domínguez 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)