Mallard duck sounds plus#

The drake also makes a two-note whistle - whIT, woo. Phonetically, the widgeon’s call sounds like woo, whIT, woo, with each sound or word produced in a breathy sort of way. Still others opt for a more conventional widgeon call or whistle. Others, my wife among them, use their natural voice to whistle in baldpate. For years, I used an ordinary dog whistle - upside-down to keep the pea inside from rattling and producing the trill. Widgeon are vocal birds, both in the air and on the water, and it’s easy to imitate their simple two- or three-note whistling call. And in terms of decoys, and again if you’re targeting them specifically, you’ll want at least half your decoys to be pintails.” Listen in to the sounds of a Northern pintail duck. “Pintails just seem to favor larger ponds. “If you are going to focus on pintails, you’ll want to hunt the larger openings in the marsh as opposed to the smaller potholes,” he said. He offered a couple tidbits of advice for those targeting pintails specifically. If we have a bunch of guys in the blind we’ll have one doing a little hen quacks and another on a whistle.” “It’s really important, especially later in the season, to tone down your calling. “If I’m dealing with small groups of pintails - six birds or so - I’ll make one short trill, and then wait four or five seconds. He went on to explain a quick calling tip he uses. I start a lot of young kids on a pintail whistle.” The sound comes out of the top of the call. It’s very simple and easy to do: You block the exhaust port at the end of the call completely with your finger and do about a one-second trill by rolling your tongue. He continued: “The drakes whistle, but you have to roll your tongue to make that sound. She’ll usually make three or four low-pitch quacks, but again, it’s a monotone sound.” “The hen does sound similar to a hen mallard, only much softer and more monotone. “There are only so many sounds pintails make,” a ’fowling friend once told me. Hear the sounds of a green-winged teal duck:

Mallard duck sounds plus#

A plus to the whistle is its versatility, as you can imitate not only teal but also drake mallards, pintails and widgeon with the tool.

Several teal-specific whistle-type calls are available. The rhythm when calling green-wings can be seen phonetically as peep! Peep-peep! Peep. That is, they make a high-pitched whistled PEEP! - short of duration and high in volume. Green-wing teal, on the other hand, are what I’ll call peepers. However, they do require more air pressure and a radical departure from the traditional mallard cadence. Teal-specific calls, however, are tuned higher out-of-the-box. More air and tongue pressure increases the pitch, and all that leaves is to step up the cadence or rhythm. Many folks, myself included, use a traditional mallard call on blue-wings.

The differences are in the pitch, which is much higher, and the cadence, which is much quicker. The basic call for blue-wings is very similar to the hen mallard’s greeting call. There’s a difference between teal in terms of calls and calling. Better yet, wait until the birds have landed, entice them closer with the promise of company using the whine, then practice the art of jump-shooting. Then, when they’re within 100 yards or so, the whine, the aforementioned peep-whistle of peet - w-o-o-O-O-I-T, or simply the rising whistle portion of the call can convince them to light.

Sometimes the high-pitched creeeeek - creeeeek in-flight call of the wood duck will get a flock’s attention. Coincidence? Perhaps, but that one-in-a-million occasion was enough to convince me that when a flying wood duck wants to listen, he will. However, I did on one occasion see a small flock change course and return to a timbered pothole where a cousin of mine, wood duck call in hand, had just called to them in their peet - w-o-o-O-O-I-T rising whistle. It’s been my experience that 99% of the woody population will ignore a wood duck call. I’d have to branch out and come to grips with the fact that some ducks don’t quack. From that point on, I decided if I wanted to attract more ducks to my decoy spread, I’d have to learn to speak their language. Rolling trills and odd guttural groans audibles seemingly out of place in the duck marsh, but there they were. When I moved to Washington state in ’93, I learned there was more to life than just quacks and quacking. When my waterfowling career began in 1974, I knew only mallard duck calls and the traditional quack in its three or four variations. Beyond the quack: Learn the different duck sounds of common speciesīy M.D.