Birding Madeira - Bird sounds

Bird sounds of Madeira

Chaffinch at Ribeiro Frio, July 2002.
Photo: Göran Ekström

With kind permission I'm happy to present bird sound recordings by the Dutch birder Leo Boon on this page! Especially the voices of seabirds which is very useful if you are visiting breeding sites at night on Madeira, Desertas and Porto Santo. However, as you can see we lack sounds of Bulwer's Petrel, Madeiran Storm-petrel, Little Shearwater and Berthelot's Pipit, so any one reading this and who possesses recordings of these four species are very welcome to contact the web editor.
The sound format is AIF, which work fine with many media players, such as Quicktime.

Zino's Petrel Pterodroma madeira (1,1 MB)
Cory's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea borealis (647 KB)
Trocaz Pigoen Columba trocaz (229 KB)
Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla heineken (430 KB)
Madeira Firecrest Regulus madeirensis – call (374 KB)
Madeira Firecrest Regulus madeirensis – alarm (168 KB)
Madeira Firecrest Regulus madeirensis – juvenile (734 KB)
Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs maderensis – song (566 KB)
Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs maderensis – call (370 KB)

Note that you find excellent sounds of Bulwer's Petrel, Madeiran Storm-petrel, Cory's and Little Shearwater on the Selvagens website»

All sounds above are selected (and with copyright) by Leo Boon from his two video guides ('Birds of the Macaronesian Islands'); 'Canary Islands and Madeira' and 'Azores and the Cape Verde Islands'. You will find further information and excellent photos on his web site www.cursorius.com