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White-faced Whistling Duck Sounds: Call, Alarm call & Flight call

Hear what the White-faced Whistling Duck sounds like: real field recordings including its call, alarm call and flight call, each played with its recordist's credit and licence.

White-faced Whistling Duck
Photo: Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE / CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

This page documents the voice of the White-faced Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna viduata) 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 White-faced Whistling Duck profile — plumage, size, range and where to see one.

The White-faced Whistling Duck has 4 field recordings on Birbs covering 3 kinds of sound: its call, alarm call and flight call.

Call 2 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.

White-faced Whistling Duck — Call

Recorded by Jonathan Onongo Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

White-faced Whistling Duck — Call, flight call

Recorded by Julien Birard Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Alarm call 1 recording

Alarm calls are short, sharp, urgent notes given when a predator or other threat is near — often understood by other species too.

White-faced Whistling Duck — Alarm call

Recorded by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA 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.

White-faced Whistling Duck — Flight call

Recorded by Romuald Mikusek 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)