Birds of Australia - bird calls

In November 2013 we started including bird calls on this web site, thanks initially to recordings provided by A. Ross-Taylor. Calls of the following species have been recorded so far:

• Recordings of more than one bird species
• Unidentified bird calls

Recently added

• Brahminy Kite (2 Aug. 2026)
• Purple-crowned Fairy-wren (2 Aug. 2026)
• Kimberley Honeyeater (31 July 2026)
• Black Grasswren (30 July 2026)
• Yellow Chat (30 July 2026)
• Australian Shelduck (24 July 2026)
• Western Spinebill (27 June 2026)
• Western Rosella (15 June 2026)

Earlier

Non-passerines

Family group 1

• Emu
• Orange-footed Scrubfowl
• King Quail
• Brown Quail
• Stubble Quail
• Australian Brush-turkey

Family group 2

• King Penguin
• Chinstrap Penguin
• Little Penguin
• Black Swan
• Plumed Whistling-Duck
• Pink-eared Duck
• Radjah Shelduck
• Australian Wood Duck
• Magpie Goose
• Grey Teal
• Chestnut Teal
• Pacific Black Duck
• Hardhead
• Australasian Shoveler
• Musk Duck
• Great Crested Grebe
• Australasian Grebe
• Hoary-headed Grebe

Family group 3

• Wedge-tailed Shearwater

Family group 4

• Australian Pelican
• Great Cormorant
• Little Pied Cormorant
• Darter

Family group 5

• Australian Little Bittern
• Great Egret
• Plumed Egret
• Eastern Cattle Egret
• Rufous (Nankeen) Night Heron
• Little Heron
• Pied Heron
• White-faced Heron
• White-necked Heron
• Australian White Ibis
• Straw-necked Ibis
• Glossy Ibis
• Yellow-billed Spoonbill (wing beats only)
• Royal Spoonbill

Family group 6

• Black-shouldered Kite
• Black Kite
• Whistling Kite
• Red Goshawk
• Brown Goshawk
• Collared Sparrowhawk
• Grey Goshawk
• Spotted Harrier
• Wedge-tailed Eagle
• White-bellied Sea-Eagle
• Eastern Osprey
• Pacific Baza
• Brown Falcon
• Nankeen Kestrel
• Australian Hobby
• Peregrine Falcon

Family group 7

• Eurasian Coot
• Purple Swamphen
• Dusky Moorhen
• Black-tailed Native-hen
• Pale-vented Bush-hen
• Lewin's Rail
• Buff-banded Rail
• Chestnut Rail
• Brolga
• Sarus Crane

Family group 8

• Painted Button-quail
• Little Button-quail
• Chestnut-backed Button-quail
• Latham's Snipe
• Common Greenshank
• Marsh Sandpiper
• Common Sandpiper
• Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
• Grey-tailed Tattler
• Eurasian Whimbrel
• Eastern Curlew

Family group 9

• Australian Pied Oystercatcher
• Red-necked Avocet
• Red-kneed Dotterel
• Pied Stilt
• Sooty Oystercatcher
• Black-fronted Dotterel
• Red-capped Plover
• Hooded Plover
• Masked Lapwing
• Banded Lapwing
• Australian Pratincole
• Beach Stone-curlew
• Bush Stone-curlew

Family group 10

• Silver Gull
• Caspian Tern
• Greater Crested Tern
• Australian Tern
• Bridled Tern
• Little Tern
• Whiskered Tern
• White-winged Black Tern

Family group 11

• White-quilled Rock-Pigeon
• Topknot Pigeon
• Wonga Pigeon
• Common Bronzewing
• Brush Bronzewing
• Spinifex Pigeon
• Pied Imperial-Pigeon
• Diamond Dove
• Peaceful Dove
• Bar-shouldered Dove
• Crested Pigeon
• Brown Cuckoo-Dove
• Pacific Emerald Dove
• Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove
• Superb Fruit-Dove
• Black-banded Fruit-Dove
• Wompoo Fruit-Dove

Family group 12

• Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo
• Short-billed Black-Cockatoo
• Glossy Black-Cockatoo
• Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo
• Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
• Little Corella
• Pink Cockatoo
• Galah
• Gang-gang Cockatoo
• Cockatiel
• Budgerigar
• Rainbow Lorikeet
• Red-collared Lorikeet
• Scaly-breasted Lorikeet
• Musk Lorikeet
• Little Lorikeet
• Varied Lorikeet
• Purple-crowned Lorikeet
• Swift Parrot
• Australian King-Parrot
• Red-winged Parrot
• Eclectus Parrot
• Superb Parrot
• Australian Ringneck
• Blue Bonnet
• Eastern Rosella
• Pale-headed Rosella
• Crimson Rosella
• Green Rosella
• Northern Rosella
• Hooded Parrot
• Golden-shouldered Parrot
• Turquoise Parrot
• Red-rumped Parrot
• Bourke's Parrot
• Mulga Parrot

Family group 13

• Tawny Frogmouth
• Marbled Frogmouth
• Papuan Frogmouth
• Black-eared Cuckoo
• Brush Cuckoo
• Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo
• Shining Bronze-Cuckoo
• Fan-tailed Cuckoo
• Chestnut-breasted Cuckoo
• Pallid Cuckoo
• Australian Koel
• Channel-billed Cuckoo
• Australian Owlet-nightjar
• White-throated Nightjar
• Spotted Nightjar
• Large-tailed Nightjar
• Pheasant Coucal
• Australian Boobook
• Barking Owl
• Rufous Owl
• Powerful Owl
• Eastern Barn Owl
• Sooty Owl
• Lesser Sooty Owl
• Australian Masked Owl

Family group 14

• Little Kingfisher
• Azure Kingfisher
• Red-backed Kingfisher
• Forest Kingfisher
• Torresian Kingfisher
• Sacred Kingfisher
• Yellow-billed Kingfisher
• White-throated Needletail
• Pacific Swift
• Dollarbird
• Laughing Kookaburra
• Blue-winged Kookaburra
• Rainbow Bee-eater

Passerines

Family group 15

• Noisy Pitta
• Rainbow Pitta
• Rufous Scrub-bird
• Noisy Scrub-bird
• Rufous Treecreeper
• Brown Treecreeper
• White-throated Treecreeper
• Black-tailed Treecreeper
• Superb Lyrebird
• Albert's Lyrebird

Family group 16

• Splendid Fairy-wren
• White-winged Fairy-wren
• Variegated Fairy-wren
• Red-backed Fairy-wren
• Superb Fairy-wren
• Red-winged Fairy-wren
• Blue-breasted Fairy-wren
• Rufous-crowned Emu-wren
• Striated Fieldwren
• Striated Grasswren
• Carpentarian Grasswren
• Western Grasswren
• Grey Grasswren
• Eyrean Grasswren

Family group 17

• Spotted Pardalote
• Striated Pardalote
• Red-browed Pardalote
• Mangrove Gerygone
• Brown Gerygone
• White-throated Gerygone
• Western Gerygone
• Green-backed Gerygone
• Large-billed Gerygone
• Large-billed Scrubwren
• Yellow-throated Scrubwren
• Chestnut-rumped Heathwren
• Shy Heathwren
• Fernwren
• Southern Whiteface
• Banded Whiteface
• Redthroat
• Rock Warbler
• Speckled Warbler
• White-browed Scrubwren
• Buff-rumped Thornbill
• Brown Thornbill
• Inland Thornbill
• Slender-billed Thornbill
• Chestnut-rumped Thornbill
• Striated Thornbill
• Yellow Thornbill
• Yellow-rumped Thornbill
• Weebill

Family group 18

• Yellow Wattlebird
• Red Wattlebird
• Western Wattlebird
• Little Wattlebird
• Regent Honeyeater
• Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater
• Striped Honeyeater
• Helmeted Friarbird
• Silver-crowned Friarbird
• Noisy Friarbird
• Noisy Miner
• Yellow-throated Miner
• Bell Miner
• Painted Honeyeater
• Rufous-banded Honeyeater
• Rufous-throated Honeyeater
• Bar-breasted Honeyeater
• White-throated Honeyeater
• White-gaped Honeyeater
• White-cheeked Honeyeater
• New Holland Honeyeater
• White-fronted Honeyeater
• Yellow-faced Honeyeater
• White-naped Honeyeater
• Grey-fronted Honeyeater
• Black-chinned Honeyeater
• Blue-faced Honeyeater
• Lewin's Honeyeater
• Yellow-spotted Honeyeater
• Graceful Honeyeater
• Bridled Honeyeater
• Eungella Honeyeater
• Tawny-breasted Honeyeater
• Fuscous Honeyeater
• White-plumed Honeyeater
• Yellow-plumed Honeyeater
• Yellow-tinted Honeyeater
• Brown-headed Honeyeater
• Grey-headed Honeyeater
• Yellow-throated Honeyeater
• Little Friarbird
• White-eared Honeyeater
• Yellow-tufted Honeyeater
• Brown-backed Honeyeater
• White-lined Honeyeater
• Tawny-crowned Honeyeater
• Green-backed Honeyeater
• White-streaked Honeyeater
• Singing Honeyeater
• Mangrove Honeyeater
• Scarlet Honeyeater
• Red-headed Honeyeater
• Dusky Honeyeater
• Yellow Honeyeater
• Brown Honeyeater
• Crescent Honeyeater
• Banded Honeyeater
• Pied Honeyeater
• Black Honeyeater
• Eastern Spinebill
• White-fronted Chat
• Crimson Chat
• Garden Sunbird

Family group 19

• Rose Robin
• Red-capped Robin
• Jacky Winter
• Eastern Yellow Robin
• Western Yellow Robin
• Pale-yellow Robin
• Mangrove Robin
• Buff-sided Robin
• White-browed Robin
• Lemon-bellied Flycatcher
• Logrunner
• Chowchilla
• White-browed Babbler
• Grey-crowned Babbler
• Chestnut-crowned Babbler
• Northern Scrub-robin

Family group 20

• Northern (Crested) Shrike-tit
• Eastern (Crested) Shrike-tit
• Spotted Quail-thrush
• Chestnut-breasted Quail-thrush
• Cinnamon Quail-thrush
• Varied Sittella
• Rufous Whistler
• Golden Whistler
• Western Whistler
• Mangrove Golden Whistler
• Grey Whistler
• White-breasted Whistler
• Gilbert's Whistler
• Grey Shrike-thrush
• Arafura Shrike-thrush
• Rufous Shrike-thrush
• Sandstone Shrike-thrush
• Bower's Shrike-thrush
• Eastern Whipbird
• Chiming Wedgebill
• Chirruping Wedgebill
• Crested Bellbird

Family group 21

• Willie Wagtail
• Grey Fantail
• Rufous Fantail
• Arafura Fantail
• Northern Fantail
• Mangrove Fantail
• Yellow-breasted Boatbill
• Broad-billed Flycatcher
• Paperbark Flycatcher
• Shining Flycatcher
• Leaden Flycatcher
• Restless Flycatcher
• Spangled Drongo
• Magpie-lark
• Black-faced Monarch
• Spectacled Monarch
• White-eared Monarch
• Frill-necked Monarch

Family group 22

• Olive-backed Oriole
• Yellow Oriole
• Australasian Figbird
• Ground Cuckoo-shrike
• Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
• White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike
• Sahul Cicadabird
• White-winged Triller
• Varied Triller
• White-breasted Woodswallow
• White-browed Woodswallow
• Masked Woodswallow
• Black-faced Woodswallow
• Dusky Woodswallow
• Grey Butcherbird
• Silver-backed Butcherbird
• Black-backed Butcherbird
• Pied Butcherbird
• Black Butcherbird
• Australian Magpie
• Pied Currawong
• Grey Currawong
• Black Currawong

Family group 23

• Apostlebird
• White-winged Chough
• Australian Raven
• Forest Raven
• Torresian Crow
• Little Crow
• Western Bowerbird
• Spotted Bowerbird
• Satin Bowerbird
• Great Bowerbird
• Tooth-billed Bowerbird
• Golden Bowerbird
• Green Catbird
• Spotted Catbird
• Paradise Riflebird
• Victoria's Riflebird
• Magnificent Riflebird
• Trumpet Manucode

Family group 24

• Masked Finch
• Crimson Finch
• Painted Finch
• Red-browed Finch
• Double-barred Finch
• Zebra Finch
• Diamond Firetail
• Beautiful Firetail
• Plum-headed Finch
• Chestnut-breasted Mannikin
• Horsfield's Bushlark
• Australasian Pipit

Family group 25

• Fairy Martin
• Tree Martin
• Welcome Swallow
• White-backed Swallow
• Mistletoebird

Family group 26

• Rufous Songlark
• Brown Songlark
• Tawny Grassbird
• Little Grassbird
• Australian Reed-Warbler
• Golden-headed Cisticola
• Zitting Cisticola
• Bassian Thrush
• Metallic Starling
• Silvereye
• Yellow White-eye

These pages are largely based on our own observations and those of our contributors. The structure of these bird pages is explained HERE. For more salient facts on any bird species please refer to a field guide.