List of Animal Sounds

This is a list of animal sounds in the English language. Most of these words can be used as either noun or verb. A majority of them are onomatopoeia.

  • Alligators - hiss, grunt, roar, ugh-ugh
  • Apes - gibber
  • Badgers - growl
  • Bats - screech
  • Bears - growl
  • Bees - hum and wikt:buzz
  • Beetles - drone
  • Birds - chirrup, chirp, twitter, tweet, sing, whistle
  • Bitterns - boom
  • Blackbirds - whistle
  • Calves - bleat
  • Camels - grunt
  • Cats - mew, purr, meow, hiss, yowl, miaw(fr)
  • Cattle - moo, low, bawl (calf), bellow (bull)
  • Common Chaffinches - ow
  • Chicks - cheep quack
  • Chickens - cluck, cackle, bock
  • Chinchillas - squeak
  • Cicadas - chirp
  • Cocks - crow
  • Cows - moo
  • Coyotes - yelp, cry
  • Crickets - chirp, creak
  • Crows - caw, cah
  • Cuckoos - coo, cuckoo
  • Curlews - pipe
  • Deers - bell
  • Dingos - bark, cry
  • Dogs - bark, woof, arf, bay, bow-wow, howl, yap
  • Dolphins - click
  • Donkeys - bray
  • Doves - coo-coo
  • Ducks - quack
  • Eagles - scream
  • Elephants - trumpet, roar
  • Emus - drum
  • Falcons - chant
  • Ferrets - dook
  • Flies - buzz, hum
  • Foxes - bark, yelp, simper
  • Frogs - croak, ribbit
  • Giraffes - bleat
  • Goats - bleat, baa
  • Geese - cackle, goble, hiss, honk, quack
  • Grasshoppers - chirp
  • Guinea pigs - squeak
  • Hamsters - squeak
  • Hares - squeak
  • Hens - cackle, cluck
  • Hermit Crabs- chirp
  • Hippopotamuses - bellow, rumble, roar, growl
  • Humans - whisper, whistle, cry, scream, sing, talk
  • Hogs - grunt
  • Horses - neigh, snort, whinny, nicker,Clop
  • Hummingbirds - hum
  • Hyenas - laugh, scream
  • Jackals - gecker, howl
  • Jays - chatter
  • Kangaroos - chortle
  • Koalas - scream, bellow, wail
  • Komodo dragons - growl, snarl, hiss
  • Lambs - bleat, baa
  • Larks - sing, warble
  • Linnets - chuckle
  • Lions - roar, growl
  • Llamas - growl,
  • Magpies - chatter
  • Mice - squeak and squeal
  • Monkeys - chatter, gecker, gibber, whoop, screech
  • Moose - bellow
  • Mosquitoes - whine
  • Narwhal- squeal
  • Nightingales - pipe, sing, warble
  • Okapis - cough, bellow
  • Ostriches - chirp, bark, hiss, low hum
  • Owls - hoot, scream, screech, shriek
  • Oxen - bellow, low
  • Parrots - talk, screech, squawk
  • Peacocks - scream
  • Peafowls - scream
  • Pigs - snort, grunt, squeal, oink
  • Pigeons - coo
  • Porpoises - whistle, click
  • Prairie dogs - bark
  • Puffins - cherp
  • Queleas - chatter
  • Rabbits - squeak, drum
  • Raccoons - chitter
  • Rats - squeak
  • Ravens - croak
  • Rhinoceros - bellow
  • Robins - chirp
  • Rooks - caw
  • Rooster - crow
  • Seagulls - scream, squawk
  • Seals - bark
  • Sheep - bleat, baa
  • Snakes - hiss
  • Sparrows - chirp, twitter
  • Squirrels - squeak
  • Stags - bellow
  • Swallows - twitter, squeal
  • Swans - cry
  • Tapirs - whistle, squeak
  • Tigers - growl, roar
  • Thrushes - whistle, sing
  • Tokay Geckos - croak
  • Turkeys - gobble
  • Vultures - scream
  • Walruses - groan
  • Whales - sing
  • Wolves - howl, cry, yell
  • Wrens - trill, warble
  • Zebras - whinny

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