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Miscellaneous Fish Sounds
Over the years I have recorded many fish sounds from various projects and miscelaneous field sampling. More recordings can be found under specific project pages. A full list of auditioned and observed fish recordings can be found at: Rountree's Fish Sound Library Note that a negative audition does not mean the species is not vocal, just that they were silent at the time of auditioning which can happen for many reasons.
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Two Atlantic sturgeon jumping in Augusta Maine on the Kennebec River, 1 July 2014 |
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I have made many recordings of alewife sounds made after the fish gulps air at the surface |
Video of alewife sound production recorded 2 May 2014 at the Marston Mills herring run on Cape Cod, MA. | |
Alewife sound figure
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Specimen auditioned at Port Henry, NY on Lake Champlain at 20h on 3 October 2010.
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Three 24-23 cm SL (9-11 in) Brown bullhead catfish, were auditioned by Katie Burchard 30 June 2004 at 9:49 pm at Tivoli Bay on the Hudson River |
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A freshwater drum auditioned about 1630 h on 15 July 2010 at South Bay Fishing Pier, on Lake Champlain, Whitehall, NY. |
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See "Sounds of Florida" for more information. |
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See "Sounds of Florida" for more information. |
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Specimen auditioned 9 Sept 2013 at the Cotuit, MA town dock. No audible sounds detected. | ||
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Specimen auditioned 9 Oct 2013 at the Cotuit, MA town dock. This is a very vocal species and it grunted prior to auditioning. Unfortunately, they were silent by the time I was able to audition them, probably due to the cold temperatures. | ||
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White sucker Figure At the top is a spectrogram of a complete series of sounds produced by a white sucker recorded 29 April 2014 at the Stony Brook herring run. Lables are: “Surface” = air gulping surface event, “S” = snort, “Gull” = herring gull sound underwater. Panels B (waveform) and D (spectrogram) are zoomed into an example of a snort in the sequence. Panels C (waveform) and E (spectrogram) is an example of another frequent sound recorded by the species, but which does not appear in the example sequence. Listen to the sound |
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Listen to: three cod grunts overlaying a much longer seal call |
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A 25 cm (10 in) SL Channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus, was auditioned by Katie Burchard on 7 August 2004 at Tivoli Bay, on the Hudson River, NY. |
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Haddock captured October 2001 as part of the Stellwagen Bank survey |
Haddock captured spring 2007 as part of Katie's haddock spawning study in the Gulf of Maine | |
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Numerous specimens auditioned on Cape Cod and in North Carolina. All silent. | ||
Numerous specimens auditioned in tide pools on Cape Cod, MA on various dates. All have been silent so far. |
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Rainbow Trout Figure At the top is a spectrogram of a complete series of sounds produced by a rainbow trout recorded 5 December 2014 at the Bluestream Trout Hatcher, Cape Cod, MA. “Surface” = air gulping surface event (here a jump), Gurgles were the most commonly observed sound type. Panels B (waveform) and D (spectrogram) are zoomed into an example of a gurgle in the sequence. Panels C (waveform) and E (spectrogram) is an example of another frequent sound recorded by the species termed the "VFRT" or "very fast repetative tick", which we believe is related to the FRT sounds produced by herring. Listen to the sound |
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Listen to the striped cusk-eel recorded in the laborary. | |
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This species is found in the Gulf of Mexico and southern Florida and looks nearly identical to the oyster toadfish found along the east coast of the USA. I recorded its sounds while on vacation in the Florida Keys in April 2001, one of my early attempts to record fish sounds in the field. Sounds are attributed to the species based on its well described sound characteristics. |
This is an individual "boatwhistle" or "foghorn" call of the Gulf toadfish and is made by a male advertising for a mate. Note the multiple "boops" and compare with the call of the oyster toadfish below. The number and pattern of boops is a distinguishing trait of species in the toadfish family. |
This is what a chorus of many gulf toadfish sounds like |
An Oyster toadfish, Opsanus tau, auditioned at approximately 0200 h on 20 September 2013 at the Cotuit Town Pier, Cotuit, MA. The oyster toadfish, like other toadfishes, makes at least two very differnt types of call. |
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Listen to the sound Compare with the Gulf toadfish boatwhistle |
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Listen to toadfish chorus and boat sounds For more examples of the effect of boat noise on toadfish see Florida Sounds |
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Five juvenile yellow perch were auditioned on 9 September 2013 in Santuit Pond, Mashpee, MA. These and other fish auditioned and observed were all silent. | ||
Specimen auditioned 9 September 2013 on the Cotuit town docks. This specimen and all others examined to date have been silent. However, they are all juveniles and I have sometimes felt weak thumps. See see Carolina Fishes for other examples. | ||
A 14 cm (5.5 in) SL striped searobin at about 0300 h on 20 September 2013 at the Cotuit Town Pier, Cotuit, MA. |
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Atlantic Salmon Figure (attributed with 90% confidence) At the top is a spectrogram of a complete series of sounds recorded after sunset on 29 May 2014 in the Presumpscot River just below Sebago Lake in Maine. The sounds are tentativley attributed to Atlantic salmon with high confidence. The series starts with a surface event where a salmon jumps to gulp air, followed by a series of bubble like sounds, a moan, and gurgle sounds. Panels B (waveform) and D (spectrogram) are zoomed into an example of a gurgle type sound similar to gurgles observed in rainbow trout. Panels C (waveform) and E (spectrogram) is an example of a "moan" like sound often produced by salmon species and very unusual for a fish sound. |
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Video of brown trout sound production recorded 25 October 2016 at the Bluestream Trout Hatchery on Cape Cod, MA. | |
Brown Trout Figure At the top is a spectrogram of a complete series of sounds produced by the brown trout as shown in the video and recorded 25 October 2015 at the Bluestream Trout Hatcher, Cape Cod, MA. “Surface” = air gulping surface event, followed by "Gill bubble FRTs which are a rapid stream of bubbles coming out of the left hand gill cover as seen in the video. Some seconds later a VFRT (very fast repetative ticks)can be heard at the end, but is not visible in the video. Panels B (waveform) and D (spectrogram) are zoomed in to the VFRT sound. Panels C (waveform) and E (spectrogram) is an example of another frequent sound recorded by the species termed a "chirp". Listen to the sound recorded in the video | ||
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Brook Trout Figure At the top is a spectrogram of a complete series of sounds produced by a brook trout recorded 5 December 2014 at the Bluestream Trout Hatcher, Cape Cod, MA. “Surface” = air gulping surface event followed by a VFRT. Panels B (waveform) and D (spectrogram) are zoomed into the VFRT. Panels C (waveform) and E (spectrogram) is an example of another type sound recorded by the species termed the "snitch", which is likely related to the VFRT. Listen to the sound series |
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