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Smew

Mergellus albellus (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.
Smew - Mergellus albellus Bird User 2021-01-30 , Krasnoyarsky krai (Russian Federation)   -   545563861
macaulaylibrary.org
Smew - Mergellus albellus Lars Edenius 2020-05-26 Malå Municipality, Västerbottens län, Lycksele lappmark (Sweden) (380 m) male, song -

Ecxerpt from multiday unattended recording session in breeding area

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

565110
xeno-canto.org
Smew - Mergellus albellus Lars Edenius 2020-05-25 Malå Municipality, Västerbottens län, Lycksele lappmark (Sweden) (380 m) male, song -

Excerpt from multiday unattanded recording with hidden microphones at a suitable breeding pond in the boreal forest

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

564362
xeno-canto.org
Smew - Mergellus albellus Lars Edenius 2020-05-28 Malå Municipality, Västerbottens län, Lycksele lappmark (Sweden) (380 m) male, song, wing flutter -

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

565802
xeno-canto.org
Smew - Mergellus albellus Lars Edenius 2020-05-25 Malå Municipality, Västerbottens län, Lycksele lappmark (Sweden) (380 m) male, song -

Captured during unattanded diurnal recording

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

587080
xeno-canto.org
Smew - Mergellus albellus Jarek Matusiak 2021-01-30 Gmina Serock (near Serock), Powiat legionowski, Mazowieckie, Mazowieckie (Poland) (110 m) adult, alarm call, call, female - [also] [sono] 618773
xeno-canto.org
Smew - Mergellus albellus Lars Edenius 2020-05-25 Malå Municipality, Västerbottens län, Lycksele lappmark (Sweden) (380 m) flight call -

Excerpt from multiday unattanded recording with hidden microphones at a suitable breeding pond in the boreal forest

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

564365
xeno-canto.org
Smew - Mergellus albellus Lars Edenius 2020-05-26 Malå Municipality, Västerbottens län, Lycksele lappmark (Sweden) (380 m) male, song -

Ecxerpt from multiday unattended recording session in breeding area

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

565111
xeno-canto.org
Smew - Mergellus albellus Jarek Matusiak 2021-01-30 Gmina Serock (near Serock), Powiat legionowski, Mazowieckie, Mazowieckie (Poland) (110 m) adult, call, female, male, song -

Flock of males and females, relative distances 10m

Snow falling

618593
xeno-canto.org
Smew - Mergellus albellus Lars Edenius 2020-05-26 Malå Municipality, Västerbottens län, Lycksele lappmark (Sweden) (380 m) male, song -

Unattended long recording with hidden microphones

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

563997
xeno-canto.org
Smew - Mergellus albellus Lars Edenius 2020-05-25 Malå Municipality, Västerbottens län, Lycksele lappmark (Sweden) (380 m) male, song -

Breeding site

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

610927
xeno-canto.org
Smew - Mergellus albellus Lars Edenius 2020-05-25 Malå Municipality, Västerbottens län, Lycksele lappmark (Sweden) (380 m) male, song -

Excerpt from an unattanded multiday recording session with hidden microphones at a suitable breeding pond

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

563993
xeno-canto.org
Smew - Mergellus albellus Lars Edenius 2020-05-29 Malå Municipality, Västerbottens län, Lycksele lappmark (Sweden) (380 m) call, female, male, song -

Intensive interaction between at least two birds, courtship display? Captured during unattended diurnal recording.

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

587339
xeno-canto.org
Smew - Mergellus albellus Lars Edenius 2020-05-25 Malå Municipality, Västerbottens län, Lycksele lappmark (Sweden) (380 m) call, female, flight call, male, song -

Male and female engaged in courthip? Excerpt from multiday unattanded recording with hidden microphones at a suitable breeding pond in the boreal forest

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

564364
xeno-canto.org
Smew - Mergellus albellus Lars Edenius 2020-05-28 Malå Municipality, Västerbottens län, Lycksele lappmark (Sweden) (380 m) male -

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

565127
xeno-canto.org
Smew - Mergellus albellus Lars Edenius 2020-05-29 Malå Municipality, Västerbottens län, Lycksele lappmark (Sweden) (380 m) call, female, flight call, male -

Male and female in flight, male pursuing female in courtship? Breeding locality

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

611156
xeno-canto.org
Smew - Mergellus albellus Stanislas Wroza 2023-02-11 Arrondissement de Sarrebourg-Château-Salins (near Tarquimpol), Moselle, Grand Est, Moselle (France) (220 m) call, flight call - [sono] 780284
xeno-canto.org
Smew - Mergellus albellus Jarek Matusiak 2012-12-20 Warszawa (near Warsaw), Warszawa, Masovian Voivodeship, Mazowieckie (Poland) (70 m) alarm call, male -

Some kind of alarm/hostile voice in interaction with Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) displaying about females around females of both species. In 1:06.581 ; 2:07.659 can be the female.

I could not find any satisfactory description of it sounds so please have in mind than mine can be misleading because of distance 300 - 400 m from the birds.

Unusual situation than birds in winter place giving voice.

The sound of ice floe in the background

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

127438
xeno-canto.org
Smew - Mergellus albellus Anon Torimi 2020-01-26 Minakami Pond, Nara-shi, Nara Prefecture, Nara (City) (Japan) (80 m) female, male, wing beats -

Sound when two birds took off from the water.

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

522487
xeno-canto.org
Smew - Mergellus albellus Matt Cahill 2018-06-07 Mile 81 Kettle Ponds, DNP AK, Denali, Alaska, United States, Denali (United States)   - My own narration of what I was seeing, since I didn’t have a way to write things down and my camera wasn’t taking very good photographs. 103649791
macaulaylibrary.org
Smew - Mergellus albellus Lars Edenius 2020-05-27 Malå Municipality, Västerbottens län, Lycksele lappmark (Sweden) (380 m) excitement call, uncertain, wing flutter -

Two or more birds engaged in courtship, possible maiting. Unattanded diurnal recording

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

608887
xeno-canto.org
Smew - Mergellus albellus Matt Cahill 2018-06-07 Mile 81 Kettle Ponds, DNP AK, Denali, Alaska, United States, Denali (United States)   - My own narration of what I was seeing, since I didn’t have a way to write things down and my camera wasn’t taking very good photographs. 103649731
macaulaylibrary.org
Smew - Mergellus albellus Albert Lastukhin 2021-06-13 Momskiy Natsional'nyy Ulus, Sakha Republic, Momskiy rayon (Russian Federation) (500 m) male, song, wing noise in flight -

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

674897
xeno-canto.org
Smew - Mergellus albellus Albert Lastukhin 2021-06-13 Momskiy Natsional'nyy Ulus, Sakha Republic, Momskiy rayon (Russian Federation) (500 m) male, song -

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

674899
xeno-canto.org
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