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Violet-crowned Hummingbird Sounds

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Sinaloa, June 25, 1957Recorded by L. Irby Davis / Macaulay Library

Sounds provided by Macaulay Library.
Listen to more sounds of this species from the ML archive.

Songs

A series of 4–6 very high, thin, descending seew notes.

Calls

The most commonly heard calls are a dry chap, a hard stik (sometimes repeated rapidly), a high-pitched weep, and a shrill zeek.

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