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White-breasted Woodswallow

Artamus leucorynchus (Linnaeus, C 1771)

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Partial list of sound recordings available from xeno-canto & macaulaylibrary.org.
Species name Recordist Date Location Remarks Cat.nr.
White-breasted Woodswallow - Artamus leucorynchus Marc Anderson 2020-08-28 Mount Wood Homestead area, Sturt NP, New South Wales, Unincorp. Far West (Australia) (130 m) call -

bird-seen:no

673014
xeno-canto.org
White-breasted Woodswallow - Artamus leucorynchus leucopygialis Marc Anderson 2020-01-20 Bramston Beach, Cairns Regional, Queensland, Cairns - Pt B (Australia) (0 m) call -

bird-seen:yes

526139
xeno-canto.org
White-breasted Woodswallow - Artamus leucorynchus Marc Anderson 2020-08-27 Mount Wood Homestead area, Sturt NP, New South Wales, Unincorp. Far West (Australia) (130 m) call -

bird-seen:yes

611270
xeno-canto.org
White-breasted Woodswallow - Artamus leucorynchus Marc Anderson 2020-08-27 Mount Wood Homestead area, Sturt NP, New South Wales, Unincorp. Far West (Australia) (130 m) call -

There may be some Black-faced Woodswallow calls in the background here too.

bird-seen:no

611276
xeno-canto.org
White-breasted Woodswallow - Artamus leucorynchus Marc Anderson 2020-08-28 Mount Wood Homestead area, Sturt NP, New South Wales, Unincorp. Far West (Australia) (130 m) call -

bird-seen:no

673013
xeno-canto.org
White-breasted Woodswallow - Artamus leucorynchus Krzysztof Deoniziak 2015-08-09 Cairns, Queensland, Queensland (Australia) (0 m) call -

habitat: urban park

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

269916
xeno-canto.org
White-breasted Woodswallow - Artamus leucorynchus Ross Gallardy 2017-06-18 Alor Selatan, Kabupaten Alor, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Alor (Indonesia) (1100 m) call -

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

410189
xeno-canto.org
White-breasted Woodswallow - Artamus leucorynchus leucopygialis James Lambert 2022-05-27 Tiwi, City of Darwin, Northern Territory, Tiwi (Australia) (10 m) adult, call -

calls made while swooping at perched Brown Goshawk

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

729273
xeno-canto.org
White-breasted Woodswallow - Artamus leucorynchus Lim Ying Hien 2021-04-25 Sekinchan, Selangor, Selangor (Malaysia) (10 m) song -

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

655600
xeno-canto.org
White-breasted Woodswallow - Artamus leucorynchus Raf Drijvers 1998-08-26 Kelimutu, Kabupaten Ende, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Flores (Indonesia) (? m) call - [sono] 350540
xeno-canto.org
White-breasted Woodswallow - Artamus leucorynchus leucopygialis Marc Anderson 2020-01-21 Bramston Beach, Cairns Regional, Queensland, Cairns - Pt B (Australia) (0 m) call -

bird-seen:yes

526161
xeno-canto.org
White-breasted Woodswallow - Artamus leucorynchus leucopygialis James Lambert 2021-05-27 Charles Darwin University, Darwin Municipality, Northern Territory, Brinkin (Australia) (10 m) adult, flight call -

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

663314
xeno-canto.org
White-breasted Woodswallow - Artamus leucorynchus Marc Anderson 2020-08-27 Mount Wood Homestead area, Sturt NP, New South Wales, Unincorp. Far West (Australia) (130 m) call -

bird-seen:no

673012
xeno-canto.org
White-breasted Woodswallow - Artamus leucorynchus Marc Anderson 2020-08-27 Mount Wood Homestead area, Sturt NP, New South Wales, Unincorp. Far West (Australia) (130 m) call -

bird-seen:yes

611269
xeno-canto.org
White-breasted Woodswallow - Artamus leucorynchus Andrew Wolfe 2025-12-16 , Cebu (Philippines)   -   646998934
macaulaylibrary.org
White-breasted Woodswallow - Artamus leucorynchus leucorynchus Hans Matheve 2024-03-15 Mt Kitanglad (Del Monte Lodge), Bukidnon, Northern Mindanao, Malaybalay City (Philippines) (1500 m) call - [sono] 964230
xeno-canto.org
White-breasted Woodswallow - Artamus leucorynchus leucopygialis James Lambert 2021-05-04 Charles Darwin University, Darwin Municipality, Northern Territory, Brinkin (Australia) (10 m) adult, alarm call, call, female, flight call, male -

calls made from flock jostling one another while preparing for overnight roost; twice scared off from this task by close presence of Grey Goshawk (as at 1:19), giving noisy alarm calls and scattering before reassembling on same perches

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

645599
xeno-canto.org
White-breasted Woodswallow - Artamus leucorynchus albiventer Frank Lambert 2018-09-17 Wolo, Kolaka Regency, South East Sulawesi, Sulawesi Tenggara Province (Indonesia) (1750 m) adult, call, sex uncertain -

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

596827
xeno-canto.org
White-breasted Woodswallow - Artamus leucorynchus leucorynchus Lim Ying Hien 2022-08-25 Kampong Mantanani, Sabah, Kota Belud (Malaysia) (0 m) begging call, call -

1 adult with 1 juv. begging call

762342
xeno-canto.org
White-breasted Woodswallow - Artamus leucorynchus James Lambert 2021-05-03 Rapid Creek Arm - from CDU drainage channel, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, Darwin (Australia)   - aggressive vocalisations made at Grey Goshawk 333273721
macaulaylibrary.org
White-breasted Woodswallow - Artamus leucorynchus Andrew Spencer 2015-12-19 PePe's Thicketbird site, New Caledonia, New Caledonia, New Caledonia (New Caledonia)   - Calls from a bird highly agitated by my presence, so presumably I was near a nest or young. While calling it was perched on a small, long snag in brushy growth. 112752511
macaulaylibrary.org
White-breasted Woodswallow - Artamus leucorynchus Ross Gallardy 2017-06-18 Alor Selatan, Kabupaten Alor, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Alor (Indonesia) (1100 m) call -

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

410188
xeno-canto.org
White-breasted Woodswallow - Artamus leucorynchus Marc Anderson 2015-10-01 McPherson Road Swamp, Tuggerah, New South Wales, New South Wales (Australia) (0 m) call -

bird-seen:yes

283304
xeno-canto.org
White-breasted Woodswallow - Artamus leucorynchus Marc Anderson 2021-10-02 Paroo Darling National Park, New South Wales, Central Darling (Australia) (120 m) call - [sono] 1002908
xeno-canto.org
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