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Undulated Tinamou Sounds: Song & Duet

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

Undulated Tinamou
Photo: Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

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

The Undulated Tinamou has 4 field recordings on Birbs — 2 of them classified across 2 kinds of sound: its song and duet.

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.

Undulated Tinamou — Song

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

Undulated Tinamou — Duet, song

Recorded by Joost van Bruggen Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

More recordings 2 recordings

Recordings whose sound type the recordist didn't specify.

Undulated Tinamou — Uncertain

Recorded by Adelina Maria Kühl Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Undulated Tinamou — Canto

Recorded by Caio Brito 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)