Great Shearwater Sounds

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Tristan da Cunha, November 01, 1980Recorded by Ian Sinclair / Macaulay Library
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Massachusetts, August 05, 2018Recorded by Justin Lawson / Macaulay Library

Sounds provided by Macaulay Library.
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Calls

At breeding colonies, both females and males deliver an assortment of braying, wailing, and hooting calls. Foraging birds at sea often give nasal bleating and squawking calls.

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