Bioacoustics of Puffinus puffinus

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.

• Cuckolds in a row imitation enrecord at source

Recordings

1,982 in audioBlast.

iNat23878806 Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus)

purperlibel 2019-04-19 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat110409232 Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus)

Pedro Nascimento 2022-02-26 iNaturalist listen › record

XC1165884 Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) - call

157 s

Anthony McGeehan 2026-08-09 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1165882 Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) - song

68 s

Anthony McGeehan 2026-08-09 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1165880 Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) - call

275 s

Anthony McGeehan 2026-08-08 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1145699 Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) - nocturnal flight call

4 s

Lionel FREDERIC 2026-05-15 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1145696 Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) - nocturnal flight call

11 s

Lionel FREDERIC 2026-05-14 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1145695 Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) - nocturnal flight call

5 s

Lionel FREDERIC 2026-05-12 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1143670 Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) - call

37 s

Sue Anne Zollinger 2026-05-26 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1086861 Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) - nocturnal flight call

45 s

Roland Arnison 2024-04-28 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1042606 Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) - nocturnal flight call

24 s

Stanislas Wroza 2025-07-29 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1042602 Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) - aberrant, nocturnal flight call

25 s

Stanislas Wroza 2025-07-22 xeno-canto listen › record

1,970 more in the audioBlast browser.

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
iNaturalist	Puffinus puffinus	Species	Procellariidae	iNaturalist/4093
xeno-canto	Puffinus puffinus	Species	—	xeno-canto/Puffinus puffinus
BAbio.acousti.ca	Puffinus puffinus	Species	Procellariidae	bio.acousti.ca/8281

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.

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  "@context": [
    "https://schema.org/",
    {
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    }
  ],
  "@type": "Taxon",
  "@id": "https://browse.acousti.cloud/taxon/puffinus-puffinus/",
  "name": "Puffinus puffinus",
  "taxonRank": "species",
  "url": "https://browse.acousti.cloud/taxon/puffinus-puffinus/",
  "sameAs": "https://api.audioblast.org/taxon/CoL/4QFY4",
  "alternateName": [
    "Manx shearwater"
  ],
  "parentTaxon": {
    "@type": "Taxon",
    "name": "Puffinus",
    "taxonRank": "genus",
    "url": "https://browse.acousti.cloud/taxon/puffinus/"
  }
}