List of animal sounds

This is a list of animal sounds in the English language. How it is heard can vary from person to person. Most of these words can be used as either noun or verb. A majority of them are onomatopoeia.

• American woodcocks - ech
• Antelopes – snort
• Badgers – growl
• Bats – screech
• Bees – buzz
• Birds – chirrup, chirp, tweet, song/singing
• Bitterns – boom
• Camel – nuzzing
• Cats – meow, purr
• Chickens – cluck (female), cockadoodledoo (male)
• Chinchillas – squeak
• Cicadas – chirp
• Cattle – moo
• Crickets – chirp
• Crows – caw, cah
• Curlews – pipe
• Dogs – bark
• Dolphins – click
• Donkeys – hee-haw
• Ducks – quack
• Eagles – scream
• Elephants – trumpet
• Elk calves – bleat
• Ferrets – dook
• Frogs – croak
• Giraffes – bleat
• Grasshoppers – chirp
• Guinea pigs – squeak
• Hamsters – squeak
• Hares – squeak
• Hermit crabs - chirp
• Horses - neigh
• Hippopotamuses – growl
• Hogs – snort, oink
• Lambs – bleat, baa
• Larks – sing, warble

• Linnets – chuckle
• Lions – roar, growl
• Magpies – chatter
• Moose – bellow
• Mosquitoes – whine
• Okapis – cough, bellow
• Oxen – low
• Owls – hoo, who, hoot
• Peacocks – scream
• Penguins - Squah
• Pigeons – coo
• Prairie dogs – bark
• Raccoons – trill
• Ravens – croak
• Rhinoceros – bellow
• Rooks – caw
• Roosters – crow
• Seals – bark
• Sheep – bleat, baa
• Snakes – hiss
• Sparrows – chirp, twitter
• Stags – bellow
• Swans – cry
• Tapirs – squeak
• Tigers – growl, roar, snarl
• Tokay geckos – croak
• Turkeys – gobble
• Vultures – scream
• Walruses – groan
• Whales – sing
• Wrens – warble

See also

• Animal communication
• Bioacoustics
• Bzzzpeek – animal sounds website
• Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias
• List of onomatopoeias
• Old McDonald Had a Farm, each verse of the song changes the name of the animal and its respective noise
• Zoomusicology

External links

• List of animal sounds to download, listen and use for free.
• Multilingual list of animal sounds Derek Abbott, University of Adelaide
• Bzzzpeek – Collection of animal onomatopoeia from around the world (Flash required)
• Multilingual recording of animal sounds – dog, rooster & donkey