FREQUENCY RANGES OF MARINE ANIMAL SOUNDS

for selected animals likely to be in or near Cape Cod coastal waters

ANIMAL 

SOUND FREQUENCY

SOUND
MARINE MAMMALS
Baleen whales
North Atlantic right whale   
Credit: WHOI Archives		 below 0.4 kHz
Humpback whale 

Credit: Melissa Patrician, WHOI

 0.03 - 8 kHz
Toothed whales
Sperm whale

Public domain

 echolocation clicks, 0.1 - 30 kHz
Long-finned pilot whale  

Credit: Amy Nevala, WHOI

 whistles, 1-8 kHz;
echolocation clicks, around 50 kHz
Dolphins and porpoises
Bottlenose dolphin

Credit: NOAA

 whistles 0.2-30 kHz;
echolocation clicks 40-150 kHz
Atlantic white-sided dolphin

Credit: Lance Wills, WHOI

 whistles 3-20 kHz
Common dolphin 

Credit: NOAA

 whistles 3-20 kHz
Harbor porpoise

Public domain

 clicks, 110 - 170 kHz
Seals
Harbor seal  

Public domain

 0.2 - 16 kHz
Gray seal  

Public domain

 0.04-10 kHz
Fish
Cusk eel 

Credit: NOAA

 "chatter" 1.098-1.866 kHz

Sound courtesy of Aaron Mooney, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Black drum

Public domain

 "drumming" 0.1-0.5 kHz

Sound courtesy of James Locascio and David Mann, University of South Florida College of Marine Science.
Cod

Credit: Hans-Petter Fjeld

 "knocks, clicks" 0.03-8.5 kHz
Invertebrates
Mantis shrimp (stomatopods) 

Public domain

"rumble" 0.02-0.06 kHz (infra-sound) AND snapping claws, 20-100 kHz (ultrasound)

 Sound not available
All sound files courtesy of NOAA unless otherwise noted.