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Tundra Swan Sounds: Call & Flight call

Hear what the Tundra Swan sounds like: real field recordings including its call and flight call, each played with its recordist's credit and licence.

Tundra Swan
Photo: Dominic Sherony / CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

This page documents the voice of the Tundra Swan (Cygnus columbianus) 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 Tundra Swan profile — plumage, size, range and where to see one.

The Tundra Swan has 4 field recordings on Birbs covering 2 kinds of sound: its call and flight call.

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.

Tundra Swan — Call, flight call

Recorded by Bo Shunqi薄顺奇 Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Flight call 3 recordings

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

Tundra Swan — Nocturnal flight call

Recorded by Flemming H. Nielsen Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Tundra Swan — Flight call, nocturnal flight call

Recorded by guus van duin Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Tundra Swan — Flight call

Recorded by Albert Lastukhin Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 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)