Listen to the Grey-tailed piha
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About the Grey-tailed piha
The Grey-tailed piha is a bird in the family Cotingidae (order Passeriformes). Its conservation status on the IUCN Red List is “least concern”.
What does the Grey-tailed piha sound like?
Birds produce sound with the syrinx, a vocal organ deep in the chest that can make two independent sounds at once. Songs tend to be long and patterned and are used to hold territory and attract a mate; calls are short signals for contact, alarm and flight.
The recordings here are labelled as call. Listen for differences in rhythm, pitch and repetition – the spectrum display makes it easy to see whether a sound is a pure whistle (a thin line), a harsh call (a broad band) or a trill (rapid repeated marks).
From Wikipedia
The grey-tailed piha (Snowornis subalaris) is a species of bird in the family Cotingidae, the cotingas. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
More from the family Cotingidae
Andean cock-of-the-rock
Rupicola peruvianus
Guianan cock-of-the-rock
Rupicola rupicola
Amazonian umbrellabird
Cephalopterus ornatus
Screaming piha
Lipaugus vociferans
Red-crested cotinga
Ampelion rubrocristatus
Capuchinbird
Perissocephalus tricolor
Scaled fruiteater
Ampelioides tschudii
Long-wattled umbrellabird
Cephalopterus penduliger
Rufous piha
Lipaugus unirufus
Black-necked red cotinga
Phoenicircus nigricollis
Purple-throated cotinga
Porphyrolaema porphyrolaema
Orange-breasted fruiteater
Pipreola jucunda
Frequently asked questions
What does a Grey-tailed piha sound like?
You can hear 1 recording of the Grey-tailed piha on this page, including its call. Birds produce sound with the syrinx, a vocal organ deep in the chest that can make two independent sounds at once.
Is the Grey-tailed piha endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the Grey-tailed piha as “least concern”.
What family does the Grey-tailed piha belong to?
The Grey-tailed piha (Snowornis subalaris) belongs to the family Cotingidae in the order Passeriformes.
Sources & credits
- Call · Napo: Napo Galeras, Ecuador by Niels Krabbe – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q1921529 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Grey-tailed piha – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Joseph Smit – Public domain