Sound effects tag

Wildlife Sound Effects

Wildlife sound effects recorded where the animals actually live. No zoo in sight. Wolves and coyotes howling alone and in packs, red deer stags roaring through the autumn rut, birds of prey calling over open ground and camels grumbling in the desert. Then the places around them: spring forests full of birds, and tropical rainforests humming with life. Most of it was recorded outdoors, at the animal's own pace.

Libraries
46
Publishers
32
Formats
Mono, stereo, M/S, surround, ambisonic
Sample rates
44.1 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$6.20 to $149.99
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Recorded or designed
RecordedDesigned

Recorded means captured in the field or a studio. Designed means built from other material.

Channel format
MonoStereoM/SSurroundAmbisonic

Mono for 3D positional audio. Ambisonic and surround for immersive mixes.

Embedded metadata
Tagged for Soundminer or UCSUntagged

Soundminer and UCS fields written into the files.

All 46 libraries tagged Wildlife.
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All 46 libraries tagged Wildlife

96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Forest stream sound effects captured as seven unprocessed 96 kHz / 24-bit field recordings, totalling 52 minutes of water flowing over stones with surrounding woodland ambience and wildlife.
7 files · 1.69 GB · Metadata
192 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Joshua Tree desert bird sound effects featuring Gambel's Quail calls, squabbling, wing flutters, cactus wren, white-crowned sparrow, raven calls, and distant coyote howls recorded near the national park.
22 files · 1.31 GB · Metadata
48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Wolf sound effects featuring 32 wilderness recordings of natural pack behavior, including lonely howls, aggressive growls, whines, and bone-crushing feeding sounds captured across close, mid, and distant perspectives.
32 files · 404 MB · Metadata
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96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Deer stag sound effects featuring 267 files of roars, growls, and barks recorded at night during rut season, with close, medium, and distant individual calls plus forest ambiences and antler movement foley.
267 files · 4.55 GB · Metadata
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96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
This sound library features a diverse collection of ambiences and sound effects from Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula, including wildlife vocalizations, cityscapes, seasonal weather, and natural environments.
115 files · 8.74 GB · Metadata

Good wildlife recording takes patience. Weeks, sometimes. Animals call when they want to, not when the recordist is ready, so a clean stag roar or a distant howl usually means long nights waiting in the cold. That's why these sound different from studio animal recordings: there's real space around them, with wind and distance doing a lot of the work. The ambiences carry the rest. A Forest at dawn and a Jungle at night make very different beds, and editors often run one under a whole scene before placing individual calls on top. Nature documentaries and open world games lean on them.

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