The female Wood Duck has a loud call oo-eek often heard in times of agitation or in flight.
In flight (Mar, PA).
A group of 7 birds flying upstream with first female calls, followed by male calls (Mar, PA).
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Female arriving at pond, setting off the male vocalizations (Apr, PA).
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advertising calls at 15s
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Advertising calls by female at dawn (Apr, PA).
coquette (BNA) call at 7s and 63s
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There are two different commonly made male calls (Red-winged Blackbirds calling,Apr, PA)
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A series of short squeaks (Apr, PA).
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During displays, males make a squeaky chatter (Apr, PA)
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Male and female calls, a group of birds, mostly males, in a flooded woodland (Apr, PA).
Female Wood Duck with young, the young heard peeping at the beginning of the cut, the female making a number of calls (May, ND).
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American Wigeon, male and female calls. The American Wigeon male also has a squeaky call, but it is in two or three parts. The female has a growling call very similar to Aythya female calls (Redhead, scaup).
(Mar, NJ).
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The Eurasian Wigeon male has a higher single-syllable call (Feb, DE).
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A solitary quacking female Mallard (Apr, NJ). Persistent quacking occurs during nest-site selection.
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Female decrescendo call (Dec, UK).
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Male Mallard "rhaib" calls. Male mallards do not quack (Nov, PA).
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Male courtship whistles, a group of about 12 males and 6 females (Dec, PA).
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Mallard courtship calls by a group of 7 males and 3 females, at dawn, with female "inciting" calls followed by a male whistle (Nov, PA).
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Black Duck calls are the same those of Mallards.
Several Black Duck taking flight (Feb, NJ)
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Three Black Duck in flight, female inciting calls (Jan, NJ)
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Female inciting calls
Black Duck male courtship whistle (Jan, NJ)
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Solitary quacking female (Jan, PA).
Mottled Duck calls are also same as Mallard (male, Feb, FL)
The male Gadwall has a short, nasal call, called a burp (May, ND).
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During the "grunt-whistle" courtship display a whistle is added to the nasal call (Nov, NJ).
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The female Gadwall (here in flight) has a quack similar to the female Mallard but harsher (May, ND).
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The female Northern Pintail is another female duck with a quack-like call. This bird was with a male on a pond at Lostwood NWR in North Dakota (May).
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Several thousand Northern Pintail congregate at Pedricktown Marsh in New Jersey in late winter. The males have a squeaky call and a brrp call (with Canada Goose, Feb, NJ).
On the sonagram there is a tent-like image of the squeaky call above each brrp.
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Male burps with female rattling calls (Feb, DE).
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The male Green-winged Teal has a brrp call similar to that of the Northern Pintail but a little higher (Feb, NV).
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During courtship displays, higher whistles are heard along with the burps (Apr, NJ).
whistles at 5-6kHz
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Calls by both sexes, burps and whistles by the males, quacks and a churring rattle by the females (Apr, NJ).
female rattle, higher than that of pintail
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The female has a 4-7 part laughing or decrescendo call (Mar, NJ).
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This female was barking (Mar, NJ).
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Female Green-winged Teal calls, with male Green-winged Teal and Northern Pintail calls (compare the burps; male Gadwall towards end, Feb, DE)
Quiet calls by feeding Green-winged Teal (Feb, DE).
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The female Blue-winged Teal (here in flight) has a bisyllabic quack (May, ND).
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The Blue-winged Teal male has a pew courtship call (May, ND)
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Three males with a female (peeps by males, low calls by female, Feb, FL)
A group of Blue-winged Teal in migration. As is typical with ducks, the male and female calls are dissimilar (Oct, NJ).
male call (similar to a soft Northern Shoveler male call)
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female call
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The Northern Shoveler male has a unique took call (May, ND).
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This is a pair, the female has a short quack (May, ND).
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Feeding flock (Feb, NV)
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