Avibase: Artamus minor (Little Woodswallow)

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Little Woodswallow

Artamus minor Vieillot, LJP 1817

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Partial list of sound recordings available from xeno-canto & macaulaylibrary.org.

Species name	Recordist	Date	Location	Remarks	Cat.nr.
Little Woodswallow - Artamus minor	Meiring & Nelleke Gouws	2025-11-14	, MacDonnell (Australia)	-	648280546 macaulaylibrary.org
Little Woodswallow - Artamus minor	Andrew Spencer	2016-01-08	Sutherlands Lake, Bourke, New South Wales, Australia, New South Wales (Australia)	- Various calls (and song?) from a pair of adults, and calls from a juvenile bird (more towards the second half of the cut), all sitting on tops of roadside bushes.	101485571 macaulaylibrary.org
Little Woodswallow - Artamus minor	Meiring & Nelleke Gouws	2025-11-12	, MacDonnell (Australia)	-	648871084 macaulaylibrary.org
Little Woodswallow - Artamus minor	nick talbot	2023-07-02	Lake Argyle, Shire of Wyndham-East Kimberley, Western Australia, Wyndham-East Kimberley (Australia) (150 m)	call, traffic, moving my birding gear - A flock of birds in flight passing over the Ord River Gorge walk.	820502 xeno-canto.org
Little Woodswallow - Artamus minor	Jay McGowan	2025-12-05	, East Pilbara (Australia)	-	651774364 macaulaylibrary.org
Little Woodswallow - Artamus minor	Liam Manderson	2021-12-13	Gundabooka National Park, Bourke, New South Wales, Australia, Bourke (Australia)	-	396074561 macaulaylibrary.org
Little Woodswallow - Artamus minor	Nigel Jackett	2026-03-28	, Wyndham-East Kimberley (Australia)	-	653659766 macaulaylibrary.org
Little Woodswallow - Artamus minor	Jay McGowan	2025-12-10	, Ashburton (Australia)	-	652337808 macaulaylibrary.org
Little Woodswallow - Artamus minor	Jay McGowan	2025-12-10	, Ashburton (Australia)	-	652337768 macaulaylibrary.org
Little Woodswallow - Artamus minor	Nigel Jackett	2026-03-29	, Wyndham-East Kimberley (Australia)	-	653732045 macaulaylibrary.org
Little Woodswallow - Artamus minor	Nigel Jackett	2026-03-28	, Wyndham-East Kimberley (Australia)	-	653659790 macaulaylibrary.org
Little Woodswallow - Artamus minor	David Secomb	2023-06-06	, Victoria-Daly (Australia)	-	614293791 macaulaylibrary.org
Little Woodswallow - Artamus minor	Tom Sayers	2025-07-05	, Derby-West Kimberley (Australia)	-	638477987 macaulaylibrary.org
Little Woodswallow - Artamus minor	Emma Greig	2010-11-17	Mornington Sanctuary, Western Australia, Australia, Western Australia (Australia)	- Flock of about 10 little woodswallows vocalizing, and 2 white-winged trillers chasing one another in flight. First vocalizations are woodswallows. Trill between 0:44 and 0:47 are the trillers. Triller chatter example at 2:37. ML: 150 Hz high-pass scientific filter applied in Adobe Audition CC 2014. Other Behaviors: Emit Agonistic Call. Habitat: Dry Forest.	218137 macaulaylibrary.org
Little Woodswallow - Artamus minor	Zebedee Muller	2023-02-03	, Bourke (Australia)	-	611372886 macaulaylibrary.org
Little Woodswallow - Artamus minor	Jill Duncan & Ken Bissett	2026-05-26	, Paroo (Australia)	-	658981612 macaulaylibrary.org
Little Woodswallow - Artamus minor	Tom Sayers	2025-07-05	, Derby-West Kimberley (Australia)	-	638477988 macaulaylibrary.org
Little Woodswallow - Artamus minor	Eric Gulson	2015-08-29	Glen Helen Gorge, MacDonnell, Northern Territory, Australia, MacDonnell (Australia)	- An adult with others calling from a bare tree branch	59916651 macaulaylibrary.org
Little Woodswallow - Artamus minor	Jay McGowan	2025-12-10	, Ashburton (Australia)	-	652337752 macaulaylibrary.org
Little Woodswallow - Artamus minor	Meiring & Nelleke Gouws	2025-11-12	, MacDonnell (Australia)	-	648808598 macaulaylibrary.org
Little Woodswallow - Artamus minor	David Secomb	2023-05-19	, Roper Gulf (Australia)	-	614330663 macaulaylibrary.org
Little Woodswallow - Artamus minor	Andrew Spencer	2016-01-08	Sutherlands Lake, Bourke, New South Wales, Australia, New South Wales (Australia)	- Calls from one of a pair of adult birds perched on top of roadside shrubs.	101485551 macaulaylibrary.org
Little Woodswallow - Artamus minor	David Secomb	2023-06-01	, Katherine (Australia)	-	614432262 macaulaylibrary.org
Little Woodswallow - Artamus minor	Liam Manderson	2021-12-13	Gundabooka National Park, Bourke, New South Wales, Australia, Bourke (Australia)	-	396074571 macaulaylibrary.org

Note: a maximum of 20 records are shown. For more recordings of this species, as well as maps, sonograms, and advanced searches, please visit xeno-canto & macaulaylibrary.org.

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