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Miscellaneous Sound Gallery

This page provides links to some of the miscellaneous sound files scattered throughout my web page, especially unidentified sounds. Many of these sounds require headphones and amplification to hear clearly. Let me know if you can identify any of them!

Other sound galleries can be found at:
Rountree's Fish Sound Library - contains examples of most of the fish that I have auditioned or recorded over the last 20 years. To date that includes 113 species or nominal species, of which 60 produced sounds that can be listened to.
Fish Songs Ringtones - Want a really cool ringtone for your cell? Go to my ringtone page and download free ringtones of fish fart and other fish sounds.
Rountree on Soundcloud - Visit my soundcloud page for examples of fish sounds, habitat sounds, and other misc sounds I've recorded.



Follow thumbnail links below to listen to samples of sounds recorded on Jefferies Ledge and Stellwagen Bank


Haddock call
Haddock call
slide1.htm
Haddock spawning call
Haddock spawning call
slide3.htm
Reference haddock sound
Reference Haddock sounds
slide13.htm
Unidentified fish sound
Unidentified fish sound 1
slide5.htm
Unidentified fish sound
Unidentified fish sound 2
slide7.htm
Seismic Survey
Seismic survey
slide9.htm
Seismic survey and haddock
Seismic survey and haddock
slide11.htm
harbor seal
underwater call of harbor seal
slide15.htm
slide17.JPG
Fin whale
slide17.htm

Follow thumbnail links below to listen to samples of sounds recorded in the Hudson River


Known and unknown fish sounds recorded in the Hudson River at The River Project Pier 26, New York City


Known fish


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cuskeel and dock sounds.htm
***Cool! Cusk-eel
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Toadfish and boat sounds.htm
***Cool! toadfish
Fish Grunts

Fish Grunts


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ui_06_fishsounds_grunt_type_a.htm
***Cool! Grunt A
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ui_23_grunt_type c.htm
Grunt C
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ui22_fish_gruntingorfeeding.htm
Grunting or feeding?
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ui13_fish_grunts_and_sonar.htm
***Cool! Grunts and sonar
Fish Honks

Fish Honks

(All honks COOl!)
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ui_2_honk type a.htm
Honk type A
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ui_31_honk type b.htm
Honk type B
slide1.jpg
ui35_fish_honk_type c.htm
Honk type C
Fish Groans

Fish Groans


slide3.jpg
ui17_groan_type_a.htm
Groan A
slide2.jpg
ui17_groan_type_a_2nd.htm
Groan A
slide2.jpg
ui33_fish_groan_type b.htm
Groan B
Other Fish Sounds

Other fish sounds


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ui14_fish_grunts (thumps)_haddock_like.htm
***Cool! Thumps
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ui_08_burp.htm
***Cool! Burps
slide1.jpg
ui_2_and_ui39_honks_and_unknownnoise.htm
Honks and unknown
slide3.jpg
ui_26_fishsound_possible_toadfishvarient.htm
***Cool! toadfish variant?
slide1.jpg
ui_1_drumming.htm
Drumming
slide2.jpg
mixed sounds toadfish_honk_unknown_water.htm
mixed sounds

Unknown sounds

thought to be of biological origin

recorded in the Hudson River at The River Project

Pier 26, New York City


Note, Most labels are descriptive and do not imply identification unless otherwise noted.



slide2.jpg
ui34_squeals.htm
***Cool! Squeals
slide2.jpg
ui24_grunts_ui17_groana.htm
Grunts and Unknown 17
slide2.jpg
ui42_fish_grunts(clicks)_cuskeel_likeboat.htm
Unknown #42
slide1.jpg
ui_04_birddolphin.htm
Bird-like
slide2.jpg
ui11_chirp_groans.htm
Chirps
slide2.jpg
ui05_pigeonlikesounds.htm
***Way cool! Is it a bird or fish?
slide3.jpg
ui29_puffer_like.htm
Puffer-like
slide3.jpg
ui27_rattle_like_clicks.htm
***Cool! Rattle-like
slide2.jpg
ui_09_diel_clicksandclucks.htm
"Clicks and clucks"
slide2.jpg
ui_10_duck-like.htm
"duck-like
slide2.jpg
ui_10_groan and toadfish.htm
Duck-like
slide2.jpg
ui_10_duck-like_and_screech.htm
***Cool! Duck-like
slide1.jpg
ui_18_diel_tapping noise.htm
Tapping
slide2.jpg
ui_36_alarm_like.htm
***Way cool! Alarm-like
slide2.jpg
ui_37_alarm_like_and_clicks.htm
***Cool! Alarm-like
slide3.jpg
ui_38_fish thumps and ui36.htm
thumps and Alarm-like
slide2.jpg
ui_20_birdlike_tf_burp.htm
"bird-like, toadfish, burp"
slide2.jpg
ui_12_sonar_like_biological.htm
***Way cool! "Sonar-like"

Unknown sounds

thought to be of non-biological origin

recorded in the Hudson River at The River Project

Pier 26, New York City


Note, Most labels are descriptive and do not imply identification unless otherwise noted.



Known sounds

slide1.jpg
piersounds.htm
Pier creaking
slide1.jpg
wakesounds.htm
***Cool! boat wake

Unknown sounds

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ui16_fishfartlike.htm
***Cool! Unknown #16
slide1.jpg
ui_3_brakelikenoise.htm
"truck-breaking"
slide1.jpg
ui40_highpitched_noise.htm
Unknown #40
slide2.jpg
ui21_highpitchedreelingsound.htm
"Unknown #21"
slide3.jpg
ui21_rapidclicks_ui20_birdlike.htm
Unknown #20 & 21
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ui_16_possiblemechanical.htm
Unknown #16

Sounds of the Hudson River in the Tivoli Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve

Unknown fish and other under water sounds

recorded in the Hudson River at Tivoli Bay National Estuarine

Research Reserve


Presummed fish sounds


slide1.jpg
fishsound_ui 02t_t13r64c3.htm
Fish sound #2
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fishsound_purring_ui 08t_t43r61c1.htm
***Cool "Purring"
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fishsound_staccato_ui 16t_t14r64c1.htm
***Cool "Staccato" now known to be from the invasive freshwater drum!
slide1.jpg
fishsound_ui 09t_t43r61c2.htm
***Cool Grunt train
slide1.jpg
fishgrunts_ui_9t_t2r63c3.htm
Grunting
slide1.jpg
fishgrunts_type b_ui_9t_t7r63c1.htm
Grunting
slide3.jpg
fishsound_75hz_ui 01t_t20r61c1.htm
***Cool 75 Hz Unk #1 & 3
slide2.jpg
fishsound_75hz_ui 03t_t20r61c1.htm
75 Hz Unk #1 & 3
slide1.jpg
boat sounds and ui fish_t12r63c1.htm
75 Hz unknown with boat
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ui 14t_t12r64c4_barking.htm
Barking
slide1.jpg
ui 05t_t44r61c3_clapping.htm
"clapping"
slide2.jpg
fishsound_gulping_ui 02t_t42r61c1.htm
"Gulping"
slide1.jpg
fishfeeding_tivoli_t44r61c4.htm
Fish feeding sounds?
slide1.jpg
ui 15t_t13r64c2_feeding.htm
"Fish feeding sounds?"

Unknown underwater sounds


slide2.jpg
ui 03t_t43r61c1_birdlike.htm
Bird-like
slide2.jpg
ui 04t_t44r61c2_birdlike.htm
bird-like
slide2.jpg
ui 07t_t42r61c3_clicktrain.htm
***Cool click train
slide2.jpg
ui 06t_t44r61c5_reeling.htm
"reeling sound"
slide1.jpg
ui_10t_t2r63c2.htm
***Cool "Unknown #10"
slide1.jpg
ui 11t_t12r64c1.htm
"unknown #11"
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ui 12t_ui9t_t12r64c2.htm
"Unknown #12"
slide2.jpg
ui 13t_t12r64c3.htm
"Unknown #13"

Sounds from the Fish and Mowbray archive at URI

Note, all fish sketches illustrated below, except where indicated, are courtesy of the NMFS/NEFSC in Woods Hole, MA.

Galeichthys (=Arius) felis, Sea catfish. Sample 1 (3,908 KB) - Fish caught on hook-and-line in Florida and South Carolina, bandpass filter 1200 Hz. Snapping shrimp and toadfish in the background. Sample2 (4,379 KB) - Percolator sounds attributed to Arius felis, 10 June 1965, Charleston, SC. Bandpass filter 100 to 2400 Hz.

 

Melanogrammus aeglefinus, haddock. This species was not included in Fish and Mowbray 1970, but was found in their archives. These sound clips were taken from a recording made by Tom Halavik, NMFS/NEFSC in Narragansett, RI in the early 1970's. Sample 1 (3,378 KB) - Drumming sounds. Sample 2 (1,944 KB) - Low rumble resulting from increasing frequency of drumming during courtship.

Ophidion marginatum, striped cusk-eel. Sample 1 (4,065 KB) - Recorded in Delaware Bay. B. chysura and O. tau calls in the background. Note, this sound was incorrectly attributed to the weakfish, Cynoscion regalis. This is an error. We now know that this "chatter" or "jack-hammer" sound is made by the cusk-eel (Mann et al. 1997), see also Cusk-eel pages.

 

Holocentrus adscensionis, squirrelfish. Sample 1 (2,024 KB) - Recorded at Bimini.

 

Epinephelus adscensionis, rock hind. Sample 1 (3,758 KB) - Sounds from 3 specimens recorded at Bimini. 1200 Hz low pass filter.

 

Caranx hippos, crevalle jack. Sample 1 (5,069 KB) - Sounds from 6 individuals at Gloucester, VA 1962.

 

Conodon nobilis, barred grunt. (drawing courtesy FishBase). Sample 1 (2,266 KB) - Two specimens recorded at Puerto Rico in 1956.

 

Cynoscion regalis, weakfish. Sample 1 (3,926) - Eight specimens in tanks in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina.

 

Cynoscion jamaicensis, Mongolar drummer (Jamaica weakfish). (Drawing courtesy of FishBase). Sample 1 (2,168 KB) .

 

Bairdiella chrysura, silver perch. Sample 1 (3,203 KB) - Recorded on hook-n-line in North Carolina. Sample 2 (2,611 KB) - Recorded in wooden tanks at the Narragansett Marine Laboratory.

 

Micropogon undulatus, Atlantic croaker. Samp1e 1 (4,067 KB) - Recorded in Maryland and Virginia during 1962.

 

Pogonias cromis, Black drum. Sample 1 (3,158 KB) - Two females recorded in North Carolina. Sample 2 (2,340 KB) - Recorded in North Carolina, attributed to females.

 

Prionotus evolans, striped searobin. Sample 1 (3,990 KB) - Recorded at Narragansett, RI.

 

Myoxocephalus octodecimspinosus, Longhorn sculpin. Sample 1 (4,130 KB) - Recorded in aquaria at Narragansett, RI.

 

Lactophrys quadricornis, scrawled cowfish. Sample 1 (2,105 KB) - Recorded in Puerto Rico.

 

Sphaeroides maculatus, northern puffer. Sample 1 (1,261 KB) - Recorded in Maryland 1962.

 

Opsanus tau, Oyster toadfish. Sample 1 (2,519 KB) - Recorded in Maryland 1962. Sample 2 (2,187) - Boat Whistle sound recorded in Narragansett Bay, RI during June. 1200 Hz low pass filter.

 

 

 


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