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| Avocet Recurvirostra avocetta | |
| mobbing gulls, recorded by Richard Ranft, 14 June 1987, Havergate, Suffolk, England. | |
| Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti | |
| song, recorded by Philip Radford, 26 May 2003, Somerset, England. | |
| Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago | |
| song, recorded by A. Rex Ashby, 2 June 1988, New Forest, Hampshire, England. | |
| Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago | |
| bleating, recorded by A. Rex Ashby, 22 May 1987, New Forest, Hampshire, England. | |
| Eurasian Bittern Botaurus stellaris | |
| song, recorded by Laurence Shove, 13 May 1966, Hickling Broad, Norfolk, England. | |
| Lapwing Vanellus vanellus | |
| display song and wingbeats of two males, recorded by Victor Lewis, 27 March 1974, Herefordshire, England. | |
| Marsh Warbler Acrocephalus palustris | |
| calls, recorded by Victor Lewis, 29 June 1975, Worcestershire, England. | |
| Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus | |
| calls, recorded by William Sinclair, 4 June 1991, Dornoch, Loch Fleet, Sutherland, Scotland. | |
| Redshank Tringa totanus | |
| calls, recorded by William Pedley, 12 June 1971, Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire, England. | |
| Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus | |
| song, recorded by Tom Cosburn, 9 May 1999, Kortright Conservation Area, Ontario, Canada. | |
| Reed Bunting Emberzia schoeniclus | |
| song, recorded by William Pedley, 10 July 1973, Buckinghamshire, England. | |
| Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus | |
| song, recorded by Michael Strand, 7 May 1995, Frensham Little Pond, Surrey, England. | |
| Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula | |
| calls, recorded by William Pedley, 25 June 1973, Cley Marshes, Norfolk, England. | |
| Sarus Crane Grus antigone | |
| display, recorded by Ben Coffey, 20 March 1973, Bharatpur, Rhajasthan, India. | |
| Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | |
| song, recorded by William Pedley, 25 April 1981, Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, England. | |
| Shoveler Anas clypeata | |
| calls, recorded by Tom Cosburn, 23 March 1979, Ding Darling Bird Sanctuary (25 W, 82 N), Florida, USA. | |
| Water Rail Rallus aquaticus | |
| sharming calls, recorded by Laurence Shove, 30 October 1966, Brownsea Island, Dorset, England. | |
| Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus | |
| calls, recorded by Richard Ridgway, 9 April 1979, Co Cork, Ireland. | |
| Zapata Wren Ferminia cerverai | |
| song, recorded by Tom Gullick, 8 March 1998, Santo Tomas, Zapata Swamp, Cuba. | |
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