Call Guide

The aim of these pages is to provide a short cut to spectrograms and recordings of key call types for common nocturnal migrants. Unless otherwise indicated, these recordings are from nocmig recording sessions. They have been processed a little to emphasis the calls but some remnants of urban noise may remain. These pages are not a substitute of the amazing breadth of call variation that can be accessed through xeno-canto, but that breadth can be baffling when first starting out.

Grebes

Little Grebe

Rails

Moorhen

Coot

Water Rail

Thrushes

Redwing

Redwing kuk note followed by tseep note
Redwing kuk note followed by tseep note