Bioacoustics of Ovis aries

In words

How the sound has been written down. A rendering is of the sound and not a name for the taxon, which is what a vernacular name is.

• baa-baa imitation enrecord at source
• méé-méé imitation elrecord at source
• méé-méé imitation jarecord at source
• méé-méé imitation msrecord at source
• maa'-maa' imitation arrecord at source

Recordings

93 in audioBlast.

iNat160493492 Domestic Sheep (Ovis aries)

Braden J. Judson 2023-05-06 iNaturalist listen › record

XC1155826 Domestic Sheep (Ovis aries) - call, mechanical sound

183 s

Esperanza Poveda 2026-06-18 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1155824 Domestic Sheep (Ovis aries) - call, mechanical sound

255 s

Esperanza Poveda 2026-06-18 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1045573 Domestic Sheep (Ovis aries) - call

52 s

Lars Lachmann 2010-07-22 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1036117 Domestic Sheep (Ovis aries) - call

73 s

Lars Edenius 2025-09-04 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1036116 Domestic Sheep (Ovis aries) - chewing, foraging

71 s

Lars Edenius 2025-09-01 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1032726 Domestic Sheep (Ovis aries) - call

51 s

Lars Edenius 2025-08-23 xeno-canto listen › record

XC992452 Domestic Sheep (Ovis aries) - call

38 s

Olivier SWIFT 2020-04-25 xeno-canto listen › record

XC960965 Domestic Sheep (Ovis aries) - call

135 s

Simon Elliott 2017-04-14 xeno-canto listen › record

XC960964 Domestic Sheep (Ovis aries) - call

60 s

Simon Elliott 2006-04-23 xeno-canto listen › record

XC960963 Domestic Sheep (Ovis aries) - alarm call

6 s

Simon Elliott 2005-05-12 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1172833 Domestic Sheep (Ovis aries) - call

20 s

Lars Edenius 2026-08-21 xeno-canto listen › record

81 more in the audioBlast browser.

Annotations

Regions of a recording marked as this taxon, by a person or by an algorithm.

Recording	Source	From	To	Type	Annotator	Record
1157799	xeno-canto	3.6753	4.5029	—	Andrew McCafferty	view
1157799	xeno-canto	4.8254	6.2738	—	Andrew McCafferty	view
1157799	xeno-canto	8.9406	10.5837	—	Andrew McCafferty	view

Browse

Counts are recordings at or below each taxon, so an empty branch shows as empty before you click it. A dash means the join view holds no column for that rank and cannot roll up to it.

Sources

The rows audioBlast holds for this taxon, each matched to the same Catalogue of Life node. Where a source classifies it differently, its own classification is kept.

Source	Its name	Its rank	Its family	Record
TSATSA	Ovis aries	Species	—	TSA/Ovis aries
iNaturalist	Ovis aries	Species	Bovidae	iNaturalist/121578
iNaturalist	Ovis aries aries	Subspecies	Bovidae	iNaturalist/698503
xeno-canto	Ovis aries	Species	—	xeno-canto/Ovis aries
xeno-canto	Ovis aries musimon	Subspecies	—	xeno-canto/Ovis aries musimon
BAbio.acousti.ca	Ovis aries	Species	Bovidae	bio.acousti.ca/7917

Machine-readable

Bioschemas is in the head of this page. The Darwin Core RDF lives at the API address below, which negotiates JSON-LD and Turtle.

{
  "@context": [
    "https://schema.org/",
    {
      "dwc": "http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/"
    }
  ],
  "@type": "Taxon",
  "@id": "https://browse.acousti.cloud/taxon/ovis-aries/",
  "name": "Ovis aries",
  "taxonRank": "species",
  "url": "https://browse.acousti.cloud/taxon/ovis-aries/",
  "sameAs": "https://api.audioblast.org/taxon/CoL/4B9VF",
  "alternateName": [
    "Sheep"
  ],
  "parentTaxon": {
    "@type": "Taxon",
    "name": "Ovis",
    "taxonRank": "genus",
    "url": "https://browse.acousti.cloud/taxon/ovis/"
  }
}