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Links to other Birdsong and Birding Sites.

SITES WITH BIRDSONGS

(map; these sites also appear in the list below)
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GENERAL All checked 8/6/23.
The MACAULAY LIBRARY OF NATURAL SOUNDS website offers 115,354 audio clips and 37,547 videos of birds. Thank you Cornell! The Cornell Lab of Ornithology also has a Birds of the World portal.
Bob Planqué and Willem-Pier Vellinga have organized Xeno Canto, "sharing bird sounds from around the world," especially strong on South and Central America. Currently 180771 recordings of 9064 species. Searchable. Outstanding!
Avibase -"the world bird database" has currently (August 2023) over 59 million records, many with sound links. Site managed by Denis Lepage and hosted by Bird Studies Canada. Searchable.
David Attenborough's The Life of Birds on the PBS website has an introduction, "Bird Songs" by Gareth Huw Davies [05/2/17 song samples no longer work]. Attenborough's lyrebird segment is available in video on YouTube. Worth a look!
The University of Michigan Museum of Zoology has an Animal Diversity website with Aves, a section containing much detailed information about many species of birds and a Sounds section with 675 of Douglas Von Gausig's excellent records, organized alphabetically by scientific name (click "download MP3" to hear).
WorldTwitch has a Bird Sounds page with many useful links, especially to exotic places and species.
The British Library has a Nature and environment website with thousands of audio extracts including many interesting bird sounds. Check out Nightingale (a 1910 recording, "the first published recording of a bird") under "Wrens, Chats and Thrushes," where you will also find a very nice Musician Wren. On the site is Jeffrey Boswall's The purpose of birdsong.
BirdNote ("Stories about birds, the environment, and more") also does sounds; e.g. Rare Sounds Saved by Macauley Library, including the now-extinct Kaua'i O'o.
Dawn Chorus. "A worldwide birdsong concert for the sciences and the arts."
NORTH AMERICA All checked 8/6/23.
About.com's Birding/Wild Birds page lists many of these and many other links.
The Patuxent-Bird Songs page is maintained by the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center (United States Geological Survey). They have a separate Song List and Call List, as well as a Bird Quiz with a section on song.
The Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology has an online Bird Guide with images, information, video clips and sounds.
Tom Lorenzin's BirdSong Mnemonics with links to other birder pages.
Greg Kunkel's birdsongs, WAV files with beautiful sonagrams.
Doug Von Gausig's Bird Sounds a very pretty page with over 165 records (of over 140 species), mostly or all from Arizona. These are .wav files, 80-200 kB. "All the sounds on the pages were recorded by myself using a Sony MZ-R30 digital MiniDisc recorder, and all recordings were sight verified."
Audubon's Multimedia Birds of America has a replica of the complete John James Audubon's Birds of America (1840-1844), which includes the full text, color plates, figures and bird calls for many of the illustrated species.
The Florida Museum of Natural History has Florida Bird Songs: over 90 species, short and long .wav records.
Waterfowl Identification on the Ducks Unlimited website has "audio files for some of the most common ducks and geese in North America."
The Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota has sound samples for many raptors. Go to the page for the raptor you want to hear.
Compare a synthesized Western Meadowlark to the real thing on Peter Assman's Trackdraw page.
The Arizona Bird Field Data Resources page has "images, sound recordings, and explanatory text about Arizona birds." Current experimental sound format is Windows Media Player. Lots of great photos.
Neville Recording puts out CDs of Canadian bird songs. This site has three nice, long samples (Common Loon, Golden crowned Sparrow, Northern Water Thrush).
Bird Watcher's Digest.com has a bird identification page with some 85 nice records.
Vivanatura has Bird Sounds: 55 sound records of Mexican birds arranged alphabetically on 3 pages.
Mexican Bird Songs recorded by John R. Sauer. Melodious blackbird and 15 others; also White-bellied wren on its own page.
The Macauley Library of Natural Sounds has posted a rich collection of bird videos on its YouTube Channel. About 10 feature "Voices" but all are fascinating.
Owling.com has a site for North American Owls. All 25 nesting species photographed and recorded.
The Species Audio Library of the Wisconsin Breeding Bird Atlas features high-quality MP3 recordings (made by John Feith) of some 200 Wisconsin species.
Nature Sounds.ca is a website "dedicated to sharing the sounds and experiences of the woods and forests of northeastern North America." Several high-quality free downloads are available, samples of CDs for sale.
Dave Gammon's NatureSounds offers 879 mp3 audio files from 220 species (mostly birds). "... you can search by common name, by taxonomic family, and by location. All sounds are available as free downloads."
CENTRAL and SOUTH AMERICA All checked 8/6/23.
Wiki Aves has recordings of 1841 brazilian species. Alphabetically indexed by scientific name. Multiple records show individual songs. E.g. 25 for Uirapuru; listening to this song brings good luck for life (legend antedates Web). Try searching for Turdus albicollis, "Sabià-coleira" -lovely. The records are scored but the scoring method is not explained.
Brazilian Birds and Sounds is a series of 6 videos, each 15-20 minutes long, made by Aisse Gaertner. Each shows a couple of dozen different birds in motion and in song.
The Sights and Sounds of Costa Rica has a dozen or so nice records by Doug van Gausig.
Bird Songs of the Yucatan Peninsula by Daniel Mennill is a beautifully designed page with 16 excellent records accompanied by sonograms and analyses. Don't miss Spot-breasted Wren, Great-tailed Grackle and Montezuma Oropendola.
Dan Mennill also has Bird Songs of Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica; 25 records with pictures and sonograms. Check out the Rufous-and-white wrens, especially the duets.
Guillermo Egli's Voces de Aves Chilenas no longer seems to be available online. Fourteen of the records appear on the page Las Aves que Viven en Chile. Also, Cesar Martinez M. has assembled a 10-minute video of photos he took coupled with recordings by Egli.
Sonidos de aves chilenas has about 40 recordings made by Rodrigo Valenzuela Aceval.
Aves de Chile - Cantos is a set of two 6-minute YouTube productions: (First) has 16 recordings with photographs and local names: Chucan, Cachuito, Picaflor común, P. gigante, Tenca, Lioca, Perdriz, Codorniz, Carpinterito, Chincol, Diuca, Fio-fio, Diucon, Golodrina chilena, Jilguero, Minero (Pachurra); (Second) has Pitio (Pitihue), Platero, Tijeral, Tococo (Tapaculo), Torcaze, Turco, Chiricoca, Yal, Loro tricahue, Zorzal, Gorríon, Queltehue, Pidén, Garza grande, Condor, Águila chilena, Bailarín, Cernicalo (Killillo), Peuco, Tiuque, Tucucara (Tucuquere), Chuncho, Lechuza, Pequún, Gallina ciega (Plasta); made by Andrés Cortés.
Birds in Suriname, South America has photographs and many sound records.
John van der Woude has posted sound files from his birding trips to South America (MP3) format:
Owling.com has a site for Central American Owls. 25 species photographed and recorded, with more to come.
Biblioteca de Sonidos Aves de México lets you listen to a large number of Mexican birds. Text in Spanish but birds are organized by family with Scientific, Spanish and English names. Don't miss the Oropendola (Passeriformes, Emberizidae, Icterinae).
EUROPE All checked 8/6/23.
100 Finnish Birds is a set of You-Tube movies.
(1-10)
(11-20)
(21-30)
Part 4 "coming soon."
Also from Finland, "The incredibly unusual sounds of a Finnish Willow grouse".
Vogelgeluid.nl has a well organized page with about 200 European birds, with photos and sound records. Also available in English, and other European languages.
Canti-uccelli.it. Many records, organized by family and by Italian name.
Uccelli in Canto 1. You-tube video with 14 common Italian birds and their songs, identified only btItalian common name, from Pierandrea Brichetti.
I versi degli ucelli del bosco You-tube video with sounds of Italian woodland birds. Identified only by Italian common names, from Giovambattista Savonarola Gentile.
Uccelli di campagna e zone collinari (versi) 1. You-tube video with sounds of Italian birds of countryside and hillside. 16 records, identified only by Italian common names. Part 2, 21 more.
Le voci degli uccelli About 40 records with photographs. Birds identified only by spoken Italian common names.
entropy.it. About 200 records, alphabetically listed by Italian common name.
The Dutch Birding Association (go to Sound Gallery) has a huge collection of bird song recordings. Ten different ones for the Thrush Nightingale alone.
The Knutsford Ornithological Society website has 36 sound records in WAV and RA format. Their Cuckoo recording has a typical rural background - very nice. Check out Lapwing, "one of nature's most evocative sounds."
Avisoft Bioacoustics ("Hardware and Software for Investigating Animal Acoustic Communication") has an Animal Sound Recordings page with 108 bird samples, mostly recorded in Germany. Also Bats, Dogs, Insects and Frogs. Check out Skylark and Marsh Frog (the aptly named Rana ridibunda).
Geoff Sample's Wildsong is a British commercial outfit with a website featuring very high-quality recordings of bird songs (some linked to sonograms and slowed-down versions) and other nature sounds. Check out Nightingale in slo-mo (amazing!) and Marsh Warbler, uncannily like NA Mockingbird in structure.
El Canto de las Aves is a Spanish site with 10 RM records; Nightingale, (European) Robin, etc.
Fuglelyder.net has an alfabetisk liste of records of 208 species. In Norwegian.
Fuglesang has over 300 records, accessible by scientific names. In Norwegian.
Oiseaux.net is an elaborate site with one page for each of the birds of France. Many different photos of each species, plus sounds. In French, but the alphabetical master list is available in English or in Latin (by scientific name). Merci Didier.
Chants d'Oiseaux en Bourgogne, maintained by Gérard Olivier, is a site with records of about 90 species of birds of the Burgundy region. Nice, long MP3 recordings. En français with scientific names.
Bird Songs and Spectrograms of Southern Tuscany has 105 species pages, each with calls and sonograms. Page in English, indexed in English, Italian and with scientific names.
The Freesound Project has a nice 2.5-minute recording of a Nightingale.
Birds of Switzerland has photos, short song/call records and data on 201 species, from Alpine Accentor to Yellowhammer. "Start Search" with no input to bring up complete list. Deutsch/Français/English.
Birdsounds birdsongs europe ... has 280 species with images; often several records per bird.
Cantos de Passaros de Portugal has many recordings of many species, with photographs. Seems to be part of previous site.
www.vogelstimmen.info, a site managed by Karl-Heinz Dingler, has a Free samples page with 627 records from Europe, North Africa and the Middle East (German and scientific names).
Corncrake (Crex crex) in Ireland, a YouTube video.
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds website has Which bird song is that?, a page 19 high-quality recordings of British birds.
AFRICA All checked 8/7/23.
Xeno-canto reports 81267 recordings from 2530 species (includes non-birds) in this area. Check out the Robin-Chats: White-browed, Snowy-crowned.
Gibbon Mulltimedia has a large number of useful links to CDs, bird guides and birding destinations.
Tanzanian Birds and Butterflies has "over 10,000 photos of 946 Tanzanian bird species and 170 butterfly species," some birds linked to sound records.
The British Library has posted A.R. Gregory Kenyan bird recordings, with 869 items covering over 500 species.
ASIA All checked 8/7/23.
The Hong Kong Bird-Watching Society's Bird Call page has 60 species, many with several records (.wav files). "The aim of this page is to encourage more members to get started recording bird songs."
Russia.Birds.Watch has hundreds of thousands of pictures but no recordings, as far as I could see.
Kz.Birds.Watch has hundreds of thousands of pictures of the birds of Kazakhstan.
Russian Birds Songs is a app for Android smartphones with 680 bird species inhabiting Russia.
Listening Earth has posted samples from their CD "The Sacred Forests of India - Nagarhole National Park," including calls of the Coucal Centropus sinensis.
John van der Woude went to West Malaysia (20 records) in March 2002 and to Thailand (43 records) in April 2003.
Khong Tuck Khoon's Malaysian Bird Calls page has some 60 species with many records. Some very exotic sounds. Check out Drongo and Iora.
Birds of Malaysia You-tube with 52 species, thanks to Cheong Weng Chun.
Indiabirds is an elegant website with photos of some 300 Indian birds and recordings of about 120 of them. Check out the Common Hawk Cuckoo (also known as "the brain fever bird") and the beautiful Malabar Whistling Thrush.
Melodious Laughingthrush (画眉 "huà-méi") recorded on Sentosa Island, Singapore. You-tube.
Asian Koel. Asian Koel video. Both You-tube.
Asian bird sounds and chirping has Koel, Kingfisher, Bulbul and other unidentified singers. You-tube.
AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, INDONESIA and the PACIFIC All checked 08/08/23.
Birds in [Australian] Backyards offer their Top 40 bird songs: "the most curious or distinctive bird calls in urban areas (mostly around Sydney), based on common enquiries to the Australian Museum." Each has a sound record and a factsheet with photos, etc. Interesting classification of birds by song type: Cacklers, Carollers, Clocks, Cooers, Criers, Hooters, Peepers, Screechers, Sorrows, Squeakers, Trillers, Waverers, Whistlers.
Graeme Chapman has a Bird listings with recordings of bird calls / bird song page with 789 samples covering 333 Australian species.
SoundBoard has 14 short records of Australian birds.
The Australian National Botanic Gardens have a Sounds page with 13 bird song recordings transcribed from tapes recorded by Sir Frederick White around 1981. Also some frogs.
Listening Earth is a rich and attractive site with all kinds of information about Australian wildlife. Has lovely samples of their soundscapes with some (but sparse) identification). Each of their CDs has a free 3-minute sample: check out the "Madrigal of Magpies".
Dan Mennill's Bird Songs of the Atherton Tablelands (Queensland, Australia) is a beautiful site with pages for 14 birds, each with sonogram, photograph and long and short sound records in MP3 format. Check out the Mountain Thornbill and the Eastern Whipbird.
The New Zealand Department of Conservation has New Zealand bird songs and calls with 37 links to sound records. Excellent Kokako.
The MacPherson Natural History Unit Sound Archive has 12 CDs of New Zealand Birds for sale, plus 3 more of Polynesia and Melanesia. There are two samples available from each CD. Check out the Stewart Island Kiwi.
New Zealand Birds is a commercial site with lots of information, including a sight-and-sound gallery including the 10 stars: Kaka, Kakapo, Kiwi, Kokako, Korimako, Pipiwharauroa, Piwakawaka, Ruru, Tieke, Tui.
New Zealand Naturally has samples from their CD (Bellbird, Kokako). A lovely several-minute continuous recording including thunder and a downpour, plus short records of Tui, Bellbird and Saddleback.
A nice recording of a Piping Crow in Sulawesi from Soundsnap.
Listening Earth has a wonderful audio sample: Golden Whistlers of Kolombangara, Solomon Islands.

OTHER SITES

All checked 08/08/23

Searching The National Park Service website for "birds" gives about 20 links to bird pages from individual parks: Yellowstone, Everglades, ... .
The American Museum of Natural History Department of Ornithology.
Guide to Animal Sounds on the Net has a very complete set of links, indexed by bird families.
Electronic Resources on Ornithology has a large collection of useful links.
Alltrails.com lists Birding Trails (search for "birding")..
The National Geographic's website has a bird page, with no songs except a re-edit of Attenborough's Magnificent Lyrebird.
American Birding Association home page has many useful links.
Wild Birds Unlimited is "the first and largest franchise system of retail stores catering to the backyard birdfeeding hobbyist." Check out their FeederCam.
Human whistling as a sound of nature? Check out Robert Stemmons "The Bird Man" and his whistling web site.
Our Feathered Friends -Backyard Birding.
The Smithsonian Library's copy of Johann Andreas Naumann's Naturgeschichte der Vögel Mitteleuropas (Natural History of the Birds of Central Europe) has been digitized and is available on Biodiversitylibrary.org. Many wonderful plates.
WildBirds.com "the place to come for answers about wild birds in your yard and around the corner!"
New Zealand Wildlife Tours have a page on the Royal Albatross colony at Taiaroa Head with pictures and information about the species.
www.vogelstimmen.info This page is a guide to available recordings. In particular, for Birdsounds of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, a set of "17 Audio-CDs with 2817 recordings of 819 species," this site has complete list of recorded species (German and scientific names). Also, a page with 613 free samples: 549 from Europe and 54 "Vogelstimmen der Welt".
The 30 most common birds in the Netherlands
Kiwi Conservation Club has material for children.
ALOSA, Sonidos de la naturaleza organize bird-listening trips from Barcelona; their Sonoteca sells sound clips of nature sounds from Spain, Portugal, the Balearics and the Canarys. Several hundred species available.
Natural Born Birder (Extreme birding Norway) offers "seawatching and birding in Øygarden, Norway, offshore birding, trip reports, gallery and more."
Best of the Web - Birding is a site with many links to pages of interest to birders. Some, but not many, links to information about sounds.
Foto Search and Can Stock Photo are commercial sites with many thousands of bird images, some with scientific names, available for inexpensive download.
Hummingbird Gardens -- Herbs and Flowers for Hummingbirds, maintained by the Monterey Bay Spice Company, has additional links to a wide variety of information about hummingbirds.
SofasAndSectionals.com is a commercial site with its own Bird Watching Guide ("for couch potatoes"); also has a section on "Bird Watching Resources for Kids."
Bill Herren of American Vision Windows & Solar has posted a Complete Guide to Bird-Watching from your Window.
Texas Parks and Wildlife has a page with Frequently Asked Quections about bird migration.
Tripbuzz's "The Ultimate Guide to Birdwatching" has links to many useful sites.
Joy of Birdwatching.com has information about feeders and bird-houses, some addressesd to kids.
Birdwatching Guide for the Whole Family posted by Treemusketeers, has sensible and useful information and advice.
Porch.com has a family-oriented page: "Build Your Own Birdhouse for Your Backyard Birding Hobby" by Hermann Samano, including general advice about bird-watching.
The UK company Wirefence has All About Birds, a collection of ornithology resources, on its website.
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Last edited, September 7, 2023
Map needs updating badly.