Mysterious Bird Sounds in Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

[@TheBreadPirate]

This video is amazing. Too many people ignore the sound design in Hyrule, even though birds are cool! I watched it a few months ago, but forgot to leave a comment. I'm glad I remembered to return!

[@intronzics7704]

Yeah the bird sounds in this game make a MASSIVE difference for the ambience

[@THE_AETHER]

Nintendo really nailed the whole "wild" aspect of "Breath of the Wild"

[@stevering1618]

By using a headset the bird calls are directional, so you can hunt them for food. they are not easy to find or sneak up on.

[@CampingforCool41]

I grew up hearing whippoorwills on summer nights so hearing it in BotW is immensely comforting, it’s probably my favorite sound in the world.

[@KikiBethSays]

Aww I love that! It’s nice hearing the familiar sounds in the game like for me the chickadees and blackbirds. Definitely comforting.

[@GeoNebula]

Excellent work! As a nature lover, I always really appreciated the wealth of animal sounds and the attention to detail the developers put into this game. I remember how excited I was to hear a Whip-poor-will in real life for the first time too!

[@delmarhi]

That beep beep had me thinking something was hidden

[@angelsierra7665]

I live in the country and I grow up listening to the laughter of the Canyon Wren, the past year when I play Breath of the Wild for the first time with my old brother (now he's in a better life) we get emotional to hear it because we haven't heard it in the real life for many years, thank you so much, now I know his name💟

[@brittanyrenee6817]

I’ve been googling the “woo-hoo” sound because it’s been driving me crazy. Some people have said they think it means a korok seed is nearby. I’ve also looked into different bird sounds and I think it sounds more like a cuckoo bird instead of an owl. I’m not still not entirely sure but it’s a little closer to the sound.

[@KikiBethSays]

haha yes I’ve enjoyed seeing the urban legends that have come out of these sounds, they’re definitely random though. Based only on the region type and time of day. For “WooHoo”, wood owls / ural owl is still my best bet, but certainly not confirmed. However there are also cuckoo birds in the game! I didn’t include them here because I couldn’t find them in game while I was making the recordings for whatever reason, but there’s definitely a resemblance there.

[@rraaattz]

I just heard the first bird sound like ten minutes ago while camping and I knew I needed to find out what it was bcs I’ve heard it before in game. Thank you for this video!!

[@deltastorm2013]

Grandfather had a trailer in the mountains of Virginia. Whip-poor-wills where super common there and very loud. Definitely not a sound you forget. The first time I heard it in Breath of the Wild I just stopped and stood there listening reminded of 30 some years ago and being up at my grandparents trailer in the middle of nowhere Virginia. Was amazing thing and along with these other sounds just really shows how good a job Nintendo did with their ambient sounds with this game.

[@HookPhire]

6:20 o thought it was a frog

[@crumpchump]

i love birds so much Kookaburras in zelda is so cool to me and thinking about these sounds ive heard a million times but never thought about is super fun

[@ranchelhud]

Thank you for this! I’ve always been curious about which species of birds are making all those awesome sounds in the game

[@BlakeEatsCake317]

The mystery beach bird sound sounds a lot like an emperor penguin if it was edited

[@werwer-wj6hp]

I was collecting durians not to long ago in botw and then i headd the laughing bird and i thought it was a boss battle i was so scared

[@vitomccartney]

This kind of bird kept me up when I was camping till 5am once.

[@tailsfan11westandwithukraine]

There’s no way I’ll be able to thank you enough! I’ve been trying to find out about these remarkable animal sounds for a while! Birds are a wonderful thing, aren’t they?

[@KikiBethSays]

They absolutely are! Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@danielbaron2809]

I"m a bird watcher and I've been watching Breath of the WIld streams. I was surprised to hear some real birds popping up every now and then. Some you haven't mentioned in your video include Black-capped Chickadee/Carolina Chickadees, and Chipping Sparrows/Worm-eating Warblers. These birds are all songbirds and sound similar to each other. The chickadees especially are very common around Hyrule and I've heard them a ton. I only recently heard the Chipping Sparrows/Worm-eating Warblers when the streamer visited Lake Komolo.

[@alexhaupt2134]

I really love the birds in this game. I hung out around Rito Village all the time just to hear the birds.

[@briw9333]

I get eastern koels where I live and it is my *favourite* sound. I love that there's a koel in botw. I've found that a lot of the bird sounds in the Faron region are sourced from Oceania, not just the kookaburra

[@charlesedwinbooks]

my questions are finally answered. Ive been streaming this and thinking im just missing a korok puzzle somewhere. So good to know its just random bird noises, thank you!

[@Dedicatedfollower467]

my brother linked me this video with "i think you'll like this" and he was 100% correct. i'm an aspiring indie game developer, and now i'm going to be thinking about bird sounds and what they tell us about the world and the story as i make games in the future!

[@Madeline64]

I came here to find exactly what bird was the tropical one on the beach. The thing is that this bird really exists. I am hearing it early in the morning during my stay in Central America. I was so surprised that I recognised it from Zelda.

[@katnor4688]

I've also been trying to figure out what makes the "yoohoo", especially after I heard the same sound in an anime!

[@MaxCloud91]

There’s a bird nearby my place that makes the exact sounds as the shrine indicator when you’re close to and facing a shrine. After playing the game for many hours on a bus ride home, walking the final distance home from the bus stop I heard this and thought I was losing my mindhahaha

[@attichen4749]

Take it back! Bald Eagles sound magical, like they're take you to the spirit world. I love bald eagles

[@milansaric6140]

Hello, I never played breath of the wild in my life, because I have a PC. But I am playing rdr2 and I hear some whistles in Tumbleweed while I was searching for rats. This sound is stuck in my head. I thought that was a coyote 🐺. But I listened carefully and, tbh, it does sound like a coyote. But it DEFINITELY isn't a coyote. I then thought that it was a man calling a dog, but, despite being near the civilization, it wasn't. I was so close to one skunk, and idk if he's making that noise all the time. This reminds me of a day when I heard another strange sound in Caliga Hall. That was actually a sound of a red chested cuckoo, but idk if it is just a background noise, or is coming from an animal. Can someone tell me where are the sounds coming from?

[@Maxxx5240]

Yea, when i hear the whi-poor-will’s call ingame, i became irrationally annoyed for a brief moment. Ive slept outside a lot in the previous years, with that bird’s call to be present when ive tried to sleep.

[@raymiemiller1455]

In TOTK, Eurasian Tree Sparrows can be heard at Lookout Landing.

[@IA-cy7cj]

Thanks for researching this! It was very interesting Recently I’ve been noticing after hearing the hawk sound around the beaches/seagulls, there will be a raw bird thigh somewhere nearby - I’m not sure if it’s from the invisible hawks attack or maybe a seagull glitched an accidentally drowned. I wasn’t able to find anything when I tried looking it up but I did find your great video

[@Moscato_Moscato]

Bread Pirate sent me here!! Your channel has a really cool concept and I’m definitely gonna get on this backlog!

[@andrewsinclair7159]

My buddy that's way into bird stuff says most of the bird calls used in the game are native to the midwestern and southeastern United States.

[@jociofert2889]

DUDE your resources for this video are AMAZING. I loved your resource for the owl woohoo sound, the raven, mario sunshine… you’re awesome! So glad I got some of those sound mysteries figured out!!

[@KikiBethSays]

Thanks, I really appreciate it! It took quite a while to find some of these, but was so fascinating to look into. Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@evanmaus4794]

Did you know these famous dolphin sounds you hear in TV shows and movies it actually comes from kookaburras

[@KikiBethSays]

I did not, wow! I can definitely hear it. It's interesting the sounds we tend to associate with the wrong animal. Thanks for sharing!

[@evanmaus4794]

@@KikiBethSays :)

[@tido641]

Kepora: Did you get all that?

[@samuelmoreno7654]

I was just looking for the first bird! I heard it in red dead 2 and remembered I heard it in botw too, thanks so so so much for this! Super interesting :)

[@Mrjaguar1991]

Same thing! That’s why I looked it up lol

[@Made_In_Heaven88]

8:10 no way! 😮 that is the Koel bird we have them all over here in Australia around the summer time, I heard this bird in someone else's video for the game and sure enough there it is

[@HimeTakamura]

I recently moved to a place with whip-poor-wills and for a while I wasn't sure if the bird calls I was hearing were coming from the game or from outside my house.

[@moonflowerpalace3872]

The last one mentioned was driving me nuts, I thought there was a Dolphin in the River close by.

[@sweetsiren9793]

1:01 Heard this bird at night while I was at summer camp, immediately thought of the game

[@theartofnina]

When i first got the game I used to stay up until morning playing and the sound of birds singing outside my window was my sign to go to bed. I can't stay up that late anymore but the early morning bird sounds in botw will always be comforting to me, i wish there was a remix of botw's Hyrule field song that featured all the birbs

[@simonmuller1395]

Thanks for the video! I'm pretty sure that the Woohoo sound belongs to the Eurasian Eagle-Owl. It's the largest species of owl and widely distributed in europe and asia. Btw, the German name of the species is Uhu, for obvious reasons.

[@Myuuchu]

Love this vid, always wondered where some of these birbs were from. In Majora's Mask, there is a bird that chirps at the ocean during night, took me forever to find it by sound haha as I thought it was some kind of seagull, but it's a "Common Loon" :D Just had to look that up in my discord history haha but that just reminded me

[@bourdinantoine6897]

I just came back from an Australia Travel (i'm french), and I can say two things : Raven does not make the same sound in Australia than in Europe, european Raven sound like dissonant scream, Australian sound more like babies or cats screams Cockatoos make the sound that the pterodactyle does in the dinosaurs movies, clearly a loud scream

[@christianmilik485]

I am reasonably sure the second-to-last bird sound (by the crazy lady) is a Herring Gull.

[@Ninjaananas]

Wow, I looked up for this just in the right moment. After this video has been out for half an hour.

[@KikiBethSays]

Lucky timing! Thanks for watching, love the Edelgard icon.

[@Ninjaananas]

@@KikiBethSays Glad to meet a fellow Edelgard appreciator.

[@lucas10104]

I knew the eagle/red-tailed hawk comparison was coming, but I’m still amused every time I hear it. Also, I can’t be the only one who wants to actually hear your raven impression…

[@KikiBethSays]

Everyone's better off not hearing my raven impression 😆

[@ulixes_]

Oh my god, this video has saved me from insanity! Theres a bird sound i recognised from BotW, Guild Wars 2 and Genshin Impact and its been driving me CRAZY trying to find the bird that makes the sound. The one I recognised was the Whip-poor-will call! Now i can stop losing my mind over this hahaha. Thank you so much for this video!!!

[@KikiBethSays]

Haha good to hear, that same sort of feeling is why I felt the need to make the video in the first place! Thanks for watching :)

[@lucas-fu9yn]

I've never questioned them

[@sarahmccarron1009]

So cool !! Thank you for this ☺️

[@kumaquatTM]

This video is so well put together!! Great job, Sister!!

[@KikiBethSays]

Thank you! 🧡

[@ryttu3k]

Pretty sure the parrot isn't a cockatoo! I'm not sure what that one is, honestly. And hearing kookaburras in Faron was SO disconcerting. What are you doing in my game instead of outside my window, guys?

[@theflamezoffirez]

The "woo hoo" should be from the Yiga or the Stals.

[@Randomalistic]

Thank you so much for making this video! I’ve been dying to see a deep dive into this kind of thing :)

[@d.munoz414]

Maaaan i was going crazy..i was hearing yoo-hoo like somebody was trying to get my attention..spent like minute looking and chopping every tree in sight lol

[@iridophorium]

Isn't the 'unknown beach parrot' more of a goose/swan type of bird cry? I don't know, but it just sounds similar to the sounds I've heard from when geese/swans take off from the water because a predator spooked them. The alarm call to the other of those birds that might be around.

[@alexireveal7601]

Fantastic video! Obviously a lot of time and research spent matching all the sounds with the birds!

[@downformaintenance]

Very nice work, thanks!

[@ChibisCorgiCorner]

Lol the WOOHOO ive always thought it was HOO HOO(like who who)😂😂😂😂 its become my ADHD sound that i make randomly

[@ИльяРыженко-п2ъ]

Thank you. Could you please tell me what kind of bird has a long slightly long cry on one note?

[@KikiBethSays]

If you can link a clip I’ll take a look!

[@iridophorium]

Lovely video!

[@hemerafos2655]

what about that bird sound in the korok forest ? Thank you so much for this interesting video.

[@PavltheRobot]

That's a cool idea for a video.

[@gabrielyosei7565]

wow amazing, i just was looking for some information and just find ur video i like birds too much, im photographer and i was trying to identify some birds from OoT and BoTW the beep beep one sounds like a pygmy owl but slowed glad im not the only one looking the species 1:15am in Mexico and I couldn't go to sleep without knowing it

[@xCryingMantisx]

Well the WooHoo is actual a Eurasian eagle-owl. Im from Germany and we even Call them just Uhu here, because of the sound it makes.

[@KikiBethSays]

Hi, thank you for bringing this to my attention, I will look into the Eurasian eagle-owl and pin a comment if needed. If you have any resources you want to share (examples of its sounds that are similar to the game) feel free to email me at [e-mail]. (no worries if not though, I don't want to give anyone homework!)

[@Fludded]

Lots of work.. really good info. Keep at it!

[@KikiBethSays]

Thanks!

[@Wilma_Larsson]

Really interesting video! Thanks 😊

[@KikiBethSays]

Glad you enjoyed, thanks for the comment!

[@NonisLuck]

awesome

[@joyjoy-official]

i love this!!!!

[@Insect_Expert1489]

I have a question what bird and call is Vah medoi

[@raymiemiller1455]

5:51 Hate to be that guy but that's not a Red-tailed Hawk.

[@KikiBethSays]

Do you mean the sound or the video I showed?

[@raymiemiller1455]

@@KikiBethSays The video. It shows a different hawk species, I think either Broad-winged or Red-shouldered. Great video though, I hate to be the guy that nitpicks.

[@KikiBethSays]

Oh I see, thank you for pointing it out! It can be tricky to find reliable copyright-free videos to use. I never want to misinform though so I appreciate the info.

[@lentiltina123]

Are there more bird sounds in the game you didn't mention? Bc I think I've also heard some kind of chickadee in the game.

[@KikiBethSays]

Yes, lots more! I selected a few that stood out to me, but yes there is a chickadee too.

[@NonisLuck]

woohoo

[@milansaric6140]

Where is this game from

[@milansaric6140]

Hello

[@BryanTheEngineer]

You can hear a woo sound in the Oseira Plains at night, any idea what bird it might be? Here is a clip: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4bEZZasf8miaKs

[@KikiBethSays]

Ooh great question, this one is almost certainly a type of dove/pigeon, the sound source is called "Canyon Dove" and the raw sound definitely has a subtle trill/coo-like quality. Uncertain on the species since there is none I can find called canyon dove, but my best guess is it could be a Mourning Dove. However that's also just the dove sound I'm most familiar with as they're very common, and often mistaken for an owl sound.

[@BryanTheEngineer]

​@@KikiBethSays The Mourning Dove is iconic. I've been looking into the different species of doves to try and find a similar recording, but apparently there are over 300 so I think I'll be happy with just knowing that it is a dove, at least for now. If I ever find the exact species I'll let you know. Thanks!

[@thesmilyguyguy9799]

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