Listen to nature: explore wildlife sounds of Europe
On the map below, the location of each wildlife sound recording is identified by a red map pin. Click on the pin to listen.
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The sounds from this region are also listed below alphabetically by the common name of the species. Click on the name to listen.
| Field Cricket Gryllus campestris | |
| stridulation, recorded by Kyle Turner, 18 April 1993, Le Bougayrou, Lacave, Lot, France. | |
| Greek Tortoise Testudo graeca | |
| knocking shells and mewing sounds during courtship, recorded by Jack Skeel, 8 April 1970, near Antalya, South Turkey, Turkey. | |
| Hispanic Coal Tit Parus ater | |
| calls, recorded by Richard Ranft, 21 May 1987, Parque National Sierra de Cazorla, Jaen, Spain. | |
| Lesser Field Grasshopper Chorthippus mollis | |
| stridulation, recorded by Michael F. Claridge, 11 August 1976, Grand Gerique at base of Mont Ventoux, France. | |
| Mole Cricket Gryllotalpa sp | |
| stridulation, recorded by Anthony H. Baylis, 9 July 1989, Sisi, Crete. | |
| Nightingale Erithacus megarhynchos | |
| song, recorded by Richard Ranft, 16 May 1987, Montseny, Catalonia, Spain. | |
| Pine cones | |
| splitting open in heat, recorded by Kyle Turner, 9 August 1998, Foret de St. Nicholas, nr Chinon, Loire, France. | |
| Red-legged Partridge Alectoris rufa | |
| song, recorded by Richard Ranft, 24 May 1987, Parque National de Donana, Huelva, Spain. | |
| River Warbler Locustella fluviatilis | |
| song, recorded by Phil Riddett, 10 May 2003, Bükkzsérc, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Hungary. | |
| Short-toed Lark Calandrella cinerea | |
| song, recorded by Cornelius J. Hazevoet, 12 May 1988, Belchite, La Lomama, Zaragoza, Spain. | |
| Striped Dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba | |
| echolocation clicks, recorded by International Fund for Animal Welfare, 22 June 1994, Longitude 7 53' 57" E, Latitude 43 20' 28" N, Mediterranean Sea. | |
| Water dripping in a subterranean cavern | |
| recorded by Richard Ranft, 20 May 1997, limestone caves, Dordogne, France. | |
| Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus | |
| calls, recorded by Richard Ridgway, 9 April 1979, Co Cork, Ireland. | |
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