Sound Bank: Xeno Canto’s Strangest Sounds
Life
For almost 20 years xeno-canto has been crowdsourcing one of the biggest collections of wildlife sounds on the planet. Xeno-canto, which translates as “strange sound”, was launched on 30 May 2005 by mathematical biologist Bob Planqué and physicist Willem-Pier Vellinga. What began as a small project focused on South American birds has turned into the largest collection of bird sound recordings in the world. It now features many other categories, including insects, bats, and land mammals.
For this Sound Bank, xeno-canto shared some of the strangest sounds from their sprawling archive with us.
Sounds are published on xeno-canto under one of several Creative Commons licenses. For more details see our information pack.
