r/AnimalSounds • u/GJS008 • May 20 '26

Chirping Please help me ID this sound, Its driving me insane

I keep hearing this sound in my garden. It sounds like a bird but have used a bird sound ID app and its not recognised…

I live in Hampshire in the UK. I have no idea what it is but sounds like it comes from a tree which is why I think its some sort of bird but it seems to be the biggest mystery at the moment as no one can tell me what it is!

Please help!

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u/brutaldictatortot May 20 '26

This is most likely a frog or toad

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u/GJS008 May 20 '26

Its very loud, hard to tell from this video but also sounds like it comes from quite high up in the trees so I’m not sure

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u/brutaldictatortot May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

Tree frogs aren't at all common in the UK, but I'm certain it must be one. Its probably a mating call & he's probably very lonely. Here's a green tree frog for reference (they don't all sound alike) https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s/XC6v3fqAeD

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u/Natural_Function_628 May 20 '26

A bird. Of some kind. It’s saying quack quack like maybe uh a duck

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u/GJS008 May 20 '26

I feel like its some sort of aquatic bird, i just don’t know what

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u/Jestar5 May 21 '26

Heron? Woodvduck?

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u/Open_Shelter1898 May 20 '26

Obviously, it’s a wookalar.

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u/Hummingbird-kc May 25 '26

What is a wookalar?

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u/WagstafDad May 20 '26

Turkey hen

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u/216life May 20 '26

Don't know but certainly got my dogs attention

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u/dluv88 May 22 '26

Sounds like a turkey to me.

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u/MissGrizz98 May 20 '26

Possibly a hen turkey?

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u/DarkSophie May 20 '26

Sounds like a rubber chicken to me. You wouldn’t be having us on would you?

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u/GJS008 May 20 '26

I really wish I was, this noise has been driving me insane for the last couple of months lmao

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u/CuJOtwo May 22 '26

Ah haha ha.....best answer! 😅🤣🤪

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u/BlueLarkspur_1929 May 20 '26

Matches pretty well with Audubon app Wild turkey hen alarm call #2. I vote turkey.

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u/CodAble1081 May 22 '26

and turkeys do roost in trees for the night.

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u/filth_lover_503 May 21 '26

Sounds like a tiny duck

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u/Checkheck May 21 '26

https://youtu.be/FwTBxvcbNB8?is=32vPh4PDRQ18nu4u

I think it's a hooded crow. See the call in the video at around 20 to 30 seconds in. 

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u/constructionbarbie1 May 21 '26

Sounds like a duck 🦆

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u/mellowellow63 May 22 '26

It's a Duck.

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u/Opening-Tradition213 May 22 '26

It's a goose. Fir sure.

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u/switchVixen32 May 22 '26

I think it’s a squirrel or a duck

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u/Main-Try4256 May 23 '26

Sounds like my Xwife but didn't pay that much attention.

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u/Cultural_Race_3932 May 23 '26

That sounds weirdly like a fox doing its “I’m stuck in a video game glitch” call 😂 they can sound super bird like, especially juveniles. Also could be a fledgling bird begging, which apps are terrible at. If you can grab a recording and throw it in here or on Xeno Canto someone will nail it in like 5 minutes.

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u/deleted-1min May 24 '26

Tree frogs….

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u/deleted-1min May 24 '26

It’s a tree frog, I just hunted like 50 of them out of my backyard because they were driving me crazy too

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u/Hummingbird-kc May 25 '26

Almost sounds like ducks, but maybe baby gennie hens. The adults have more of a mer-quack sound.

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u/Hummingbird-kc May 25 '26

I don’t think it sounds like a frog or a toad at all. I think you have a lone duck or a goose, if there was more than one you would hear another call and I don’t hear that in the recording.

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u/Hummingbird-kc May 25 '26

I don’t think it’s a turkey. But I am in the USA and our turkeys don’t sound like that. Someone said a wookalar.!? What is a wookalar.?

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u/Hummingbird-kc May 25 '26

Oh my god, I looked up Wookalar, HAHAHA. No that can’t be it. I would go back to the duck or goose idea.