The following calls have been recorded and can be used to help identify Night Parrots.These are a selection of the most commonly heard calls, and are the ones most useful in survey. Other calls are known, but tend to be quieter, and less useful for survey. Calls known to be associated with breeding are not included.

Queensland calls

Calls in this first set are from Queensland, and have been archived at the Australian National Wildlife Collection, CSIRO, Canberra.

Combined file

Western Australian calls

In this stream all of the above Queensland calls have been combined into a single stream.

The set of calls below are from Western Australia, and have kindly been supplied by Bruce Greatwich and Nigel Jackett.

Additional Calls

Calls described by Leseberg et al. (in review). All these calls have been archived at the Australian National Wildlife Collection, Canberra. A reference table is provided at the end of this page for each of the calls.