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Water Rail

Rallus aquaticus Linnaeus, C 1758

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Partial list of sound recordings available from xeno-canto & macaulaylibrary.org.
Species name Recordist Date Location Remarks Cat.nr.
Water Rail - Rallus aquaticus Patrik Åberg 13-04-2009 Amperna, Brevik, Västergötland, Västergötland (Sweden) (? m) song (A) -   42672
xeno-canto.org
Water Rail - Rallus aquaticus Richard Dunn 2014-05-20 Chevington Pools, Northumberland , Northumberland (United Kingdom) (10 m) call -

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

 178890
xeno-canto.org
Water Rail - Rallus aquaticus Vandousselaere Patrick 2025-10-15 Arrondissement Brugge (near Brugge), West-Vlaanderen, Vlaams Gewest, West Flanders (Belgium) (10 m) nocturnal flight call - [sono] 1048111
xeno-canto.org
Water Rail - Rallus aquaticus Alain Malengreau 2015-04-07 Hensies, Hainaut, Région wallonne, Hainaut (Belgium) (20 m) call, male, song -

Telinga PRO 5 PIP. Exited male call - song, call of two males , dispute & escape of one male, call of the victorious male.

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

 235200
xeno-canto.org
Water Rail - Rallus aquaticus Dean McDonnell 2022-04-29 Clonberton, Meath, County Meath, Louth (Ireland) (30 m) call -

*Recorded at small pond with reed beds next to larger lake

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

 723774
xeno-canto.org
Water Rail - Rallus aquaticus Kieran Nixon 2017-09-27 North Norfolk District (near Holt), Norfolk, England, Norfolk (United Kingdom) (60 m) Nocturnal Recording, flight call -

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

 387774
xeno-canto.org
Water Rail - Rallus aquaticus Fred Prak 2022-03-25 Soest, Soest, Utrecht, Soest (Netherlands) (10 m) nocturnal flight call -

De klok op de kerktoren sloeg 01:00 uur, de Waterral riep terug 2x

 710815
xeno-canto.org
Water Rail - Rallus aquaticus Sean Ronayne 2020-01-04 Embassament d'Utxesa-Secà, Segrià, Catalunya, Lérida (Spain) (150 m) call, song -

Atypical Calls

playback-used:no

 518528
xeno-canto.org
Water Rail - Rallus aquaticus Andrew Harrop 2021-08-13 Quendale, Shetland Islands, Scotland, Shetland (United Kingdom) (30 m) adult, call -

Series of calls from one of two birds present in vegetation along burn.

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

 668084
xeno-canto.org
Water Rail - Rallus aquaticus Fernando T Rico 2023-02-17 , Valladolid (Spain)   -   536053161
macaulaylibrary.org
Water Rail - Rallus aquaticus Manuel Grosselet 2022-04-25 Observatoire de la Réserve Naturelle de l'Estuaire de la Seine (near Gonfreville-l'Orcher), Seine-Maritime, Normandie, Seine-Maritime (France) (10 m) call -

wildtronics mono amplified tascam dr05

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

 720056
xeno-canto.org
Water Rail - Rallus aquaticus Adam Gruszczyński 2020-04-09 Gmina Rogowo, żniński, kujawsko-pomorskie, Kujawsko-pomorskie (Poland) (90 m) song -

Call form reed beds.

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

 543997
xeno-canto.org
Water Rail - Rallus aquaticus João Tomás 2026-06-27 , Salamanca (Spain)   -   660399384
macaulaylibrary.org
Water Rail - Rallus aquaticus Jarek Matusiak 2013-07-03 Gmina Pułtusk (near Pultusk), Pułtusk County, Masovian Voivodeship, Mazowieckie (Poland) (80 m) adult, alarm call, call -

Adult alarming the Young, while collecting the food

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

 150564
xeno-canto.org
Water Rail - Rallus aquaticus Joost van Bruggen 2019-06-24 Arnhem, Arnhem, Gelderland, Gelderland (Netherlands) (10 m) flight call, nocturnal flight call -

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

 488271
xeno-canto.org
Water Rail - Rallus aquaticus Beatrix Saadi-Varchmin 2020-04-05 Zellsee S (near Wessobrunn), Weilheim-Schongau, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Weilheim-Schongau (Germany) (600 m) call, song -

cut 2 of the long soundscape XC841338

 841343
xeno-canto.org
Water Rail - Rallus aquaticus Ricardo Hevia 2022-04-28 Ortegal (near Cariño), A Coruña, Galicia, Cariño (Spain) (20 m) nocturnal flight call -

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

 720107
xeno-canto.org
Water Rail - Rallus aquaticus Frédéric Cazaban 2022-03-29 Tarnos, Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Landes (France) (40 m) nocturnal flight call -

filters used : amplify, high pass, fade in, fade out

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

 712480
xeno-canto.org
Water Rail - Rallus aquaticus Vandousselaere Patrick 2025-04-22 Arrondissement Brugge (near Brugge), West-Vlaanderen, Vlaams Gewest, West Flanders (Belgium) (10 m) nocturnal flight call - [sono] 991029
xeno-canto.org
Water Rail - Rallus aquaticus Jarek Matusiak 2012-05-28 Sand mine John (Piaskarnia Janówek), Mazowieckie (Poland) (? m) calls (A) - calls probably two birds, next part of this recording is in http://www.xeno-canto.org/102770 102772
xeno-canto.org
Water Rail - Rallus aquaticus Branislav Oblučar 2022-10-30 Zagreb, City of Zagreb, Grad Zagreb (Croatia) (110 m) call - [also] [sono] 758470
xeno-canto.org
Water Rail - Rallus aquaticus Astrid Cervantes 2025-11-05 Arrondissement of Leuven (near Leuven), Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaams Gewest, Belgium (Belgium) (30 m) nocturnal flight call - [sono] 1052794
xeno-canto.org
Water Rail - Rallus aquaticus Lionel FREDERIC 2026-02-24 Arrondissement d'Orléans (near Chécy), Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire, Loiret (France) (110 m) flight call, nocturnal flight call - [sono] 1082962
xeno-canto.org
Water Rail - Rallus aquaticus Simon Brockmeyer 2021-03-23 Bielefeld, Detmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) (90 m) nocturnal flight call -

NocMig recording (Olympus LS-14).

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

 636838
xeno-canto.org
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