Listen to nature: explore bird wildlife sounds: Waders and Gulls
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| Avocet Recurvirostra avocetta | |
| mobbing gulls, recorded by Richard Ranft, 14 June 1987, Havergate, Suffolk, England. | |
| Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus | |
| calls, recorded by William Pedley, 30 October 1977, Newport Paginell, Buckinghamshire, Scotland. | |
| Common Gull Larus canus | |
| calls, recorded by Victor Lewis, 4 June 1978, Morayshire, Scotland. | |
| Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos | |
| song, recorded by Victor Lewis, 8 May 1974, Shropshire, 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. | |
| Curlew Numenius arquata | |
| calls, recorded by G Patchett, 25 April 1973, Great Timble, Otley, West Yorkshire, England. | |
| Dunlin Calidris alpina | |
| song, recorded by Victor Lewis, 27 April 1981, Wales. | |
| Greenshank Tringa nebularia | |
| song and calls, recorded by William Sinclair, 3 May 1975, West Sutherland, Scotland. | |
| Herring Gull Larus argentatus | |
| sounds of chick in egg before hatching, recorded by Richard Ranft, 21 May 1986, Skokholm Island, Dyfed, Wales. | |
| Herring Gull Larus argentatus | |
| calls, recorded by William Pedley, 27 July 1971, Swanage, Dorset, England. | |
| Lapwing Vanellus vanellus | |
| display song and wingbeats of two males, recorded by Victor Lewis, 27 March 1974, Herefordshire, England. | |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus | |
| calls, recorded by G Patchett, 10 June 1972, Walney Island, Barrow in Furness, 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. | |
| Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula | |
| calls, recorded by William Pedley, 25 June 1973, Cley Marshes, Norfolk, England. | |
| Woodcock Scolopax rusticola | |
| roding song, recorded by William Pedley, 31 May 1972, Whittlebury, Northamptonshire, England. | |
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