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Two real recordings from living birds. Press play to begin; sound never starts automatically.
Listen for the changing phrases, short pauses, and higher notes. This is one recording, not every call the species makes.
Singing European robin · recording dated 2007; location not supplied in this source.Anton (Wikimedia user); cleaned version uploaded by JREpedia · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Recording source. Embedded unchanged by DodoHistory; the robin source is an existing cleaned version.
Francis C. Franklin · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Cropped for display.
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Listen to the repeated notes and background sounds. Compare the rhythm with the robin recording, rather than using this alone to identify a bird.
Powderhorn Park, Minneapolis, United States · 3 August 2011.Jonathon Jongsma · Xeno-canto XC86749 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Recording source. Embedded unchanged by DodoHistory; the robin source is an existing cleaned version.
Rhododendrites · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cropped for display.
Explore this birdBackground wildlife can also be audible in field recordings. This is a listening collection, not a sound-identification service. Dinosaur and dodo voices are not presented as known recordings.