Listen

Using underwater microphones called ‘hydrophones’ we can record the sounds made by vocalizing dolphins

Press Play to listen to dolphin recordings from the Tay Estuary

Whistles

Can you hear the whistles? On a spectrogram these appear as distinct contours like the wave traced in black

Whistles are used for communication and identification between dolphins


Clicks

Dolphins makes echolocation clicks to detect their environment and prey, such as fish.

These high frequency sounds are shown by the black lines on the spectrogram.