Sound Gallery - Elk bugle

Bull elk bugle to attract females and defend their territories.

Photo by Donald Metzler

• Elk bugle

  
  

  Sound recording of bugling elk, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado.

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  Audio Transcript

  The loud screeching, groaning sounds of elks bugling.

Spectrogram of bugling elk. Spectrograms are graphs that visualize sounds. The brightness of the colors shows sounds’ amplitude (loudness) across different frequencies (pitches), shown from bottom to top, and over time, from left to right.

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