BIRD CALLS and SONGS

Recordings and sonagrams of the bird sounds of eastern North America and beyond

Sunday, February 21

Miscellaneous Posts

Coal Tit "courtship/copulation" song"

Field Sparrow plastic complex song

Great Horned Owl shrieking

Northern Saw-whet Owl wail

Identifying hummingbirds by sound

Flight calls of winter finches

Hermit Thrush call variant

Sedge wren subsong

Sedge Wrens Montgomery County, PA

Field Sparrow dawn/day song reversal

A few spring migrants

Virginia Rails duetting

American Robin whisper song

Carolina Chickadee gargle song

Great Horned Owl and Common Raccoons

Eurasian Wigeon

Chipping Sparrow copulation call

Red-breasted Nuthatch vibratory song

Baird's Sparrow at Lostwood NWR, North Dakota

American Woodcock display flight

Mobbing Calls

Finding Connecticut Warblers by ear

Solitary Sandpiper calls

Oriole nestling calls

Scarlet Tanager "Yellow-rumped Warbler-like" call

Red-eyed Vireo mimicry

Carolina Wren plastic song

Fledgling calls

Eastern Towhee "complex quiet song"

Black Scoter courtship calls

Ipswich Sparrow flight calls

Song Sparrow : an aggressive call while feeding

Spotted Towhee calls

Fish Crow calls

Sharp-tailed Sparrow flight call

A variety of Blue Jay calls

Oporornis chip calls

Gray Catbird fledgling calls

Worm-eating Warbler extended (flight) song

The White-eyed Vireo rambling song

Henslow's Sparrows at Piney Tract, PA
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  • Introduction to Bird Sounds
  • Equipment and Techniques

Bird Calls

  • Bitterns and Herons
  • Cormorants
  • Crows
  • Cuckoos
  • Ducks I
  • Ducks II
  • Finch calls I : flight calls
  • Finch calls II : alarm and contact calls
  • Flycatcher calls
  • Game Bird calls
  • Geese
  • Grebes and Loons
  • Gulls
  • Hummingbirds
  • Ibises
  • Icterid alarm and contact calls I : Blackbirds
  • Icterid alarm and contact calls II : Orioles and Meadowlarks
  • Icterid flight calls I : Blackbirds
  • Icterid flight calls II : Orioles and Meadowlarks
  • Juvenile calls I : Non-passerines
  • Juvenile calls II : Flycatchers to Titmice
  • Juvenile calls III : Wrens to Waxwings
  • Juvenile calls IV : Warblers
  • Juvenile calls V : Sparrows to Finches
  • Kingfishers
  • Larks and Pipits
  • Longspurs
  • Mimid calls
  • Nuthatch, kinglet, creeper and gnatcatcher calls
  • Old World Sparrows
  • Owls
  • Rails
  • Raptors
  • Sandhill Crane
  • Shorebird calls I : Calidris Sandpipers
  • Shorebird calls II : Plovers
  • Shorebird calls III : Woodcock and Snipe
  • Shorebirds IV : Tringa, Dowitchers, Godwits and other shorebirds
  • Shrikes
  • Sparrow calls I : flight calls
  • Sparrow calls II : chip calls
  • Sparrow calls III : flock, agonistic, chase and mating calls
  • Sparrow calls IV : high chip calls
  • Starling
  • Swallow and Swift calls
  • Swans
  • Tanager, Buntings and Grosbeaks: flight calls
  • Tanagers, Buntings and Grosbeaks: alarm and contact calls
  • Terns
  • Thrush calls I : flight calls
  • Thrush calls II : alarm and contact calls
  • Titmice calls
  • Vireo calls
  • Warbler calls I : chip calls
  • Warbler calls II : flight calls
  • Warbler calls III : high chip and miscellaneous other calls
  • Waxwings
  • Woodpecker calls
  • Woodpeckers : non-vocal sounds
  • Wren calls

Bird Songs

  • Finch songs
  • Flycatcher songs I
  • Flycatcher songs II : dawn songs
  • Icterid songs
  • Lark and Pipit songs
  • Mimicry I
  • Mimicry II : The White-eyed Vireo
  • Mimid songs
  • Nightjar songs and calls
  • Nuthatch, creeper, kinglet and gnatcatcher songs
  • Pigeons and Doves
  • Plastic songs
  • Sparrow songs
  • Swallow songs
  • Tanagers, Buntings and Grosbeaks : songs
  • Thrush songs
  • Titmice songs
  • Vireo songs
  • Warbler songs I
  • Warbler songs II : repertoires of one
  • Warbler songs III : high-pitched songs
  • Wren songs

Recent Additions and Miscellaneous Posts

  • Recent additions
  • Miscellaneous Posts

Nocturnal Flight Calls

  • Nocturnal migrants May 16th 2013
  • Nocturnal migrants October 13th 2012
  • Nocturnal migrants October 7th 2012
  • Nocturnal migrants September 15-16th 2012
  • Nocturnal migrants September 20th 2012
  • Nocturnal migrants May 11-13th 2012
  • Nocturnal migrants October 22nd and 23rd 2011
  • Nocturnal migrants early October 2011
  • Nocturnal migrants August 23rd 2011
  • Nocturnal migrants September 16-18th 2011

British Recordings

  • Buntings
  • Crows
  • Dunnock
  • Finch calls
  • Finch songs
  • Geese and Ducks
  • Grebe, Rails, Bittern
  • Gulls
  • Nightjar
  • Nuthatch, Tree Creeper and Goldcrest songs
  • Nuthatch, Tree Creeper, Goldcrest and Long-tailed Tit calls
  • Old World Warblers
  • Owls
  • Pheasant
  • Pigeons
  • Pipits
  • Raptors
  • Shorebirds
  • Sparrows
  • Thrush calls
  • Thrush songs
  • Tit calls
  • Tit songs
  • Woodpeckers
  • Wren

Mammals

  • Mammals

Trip Reports

  • Las Vegas
  • Andros, Bahamas
  • Colorado
  • The Dalton Highway, Alaska

Audio Links to Bird Sounds

  • Bird Voices
  • Birds of North America (BNA)
  • Boidnoise
  • Borror Laboratory of Acoustics
  • Earbirding
  • Macaulay Library
  • Mangoverde
  • Music of Nature
  • Naturesongs
  • The Fledgling Project
  • Wild Echoes
  • Wisconsin Bird Sounds
  • Worldtwitch
  • Xeno-Canto

Resources

  • Birdsong by the Seasons. Donald Kroodsma, Houghton Mifflin, 2009. Another great book with CDs from Dr Kroodsma.
  • Flight Calls of Migratory Birds WR Evans and M O'Brien. CD-ROM www.oldbird.org. Excellent source of information on flight calls
  • Nature's Music, The Science of Birdsong. Peter Marler and Hans Slabbekoorn. Elsevier Academic press. 2004. A treasure trove of information, advanced but very readable (comes with CD).
  • Stokes Field Guide to Bird Song, Eastern Region, by Lang Elliot. 3 CDs. Of commercial recordings, this has the most comprehensive collection of songs and calls.
  • The Birds of North America Online (BNA). Comprehensive information on all aspects of life history, including audio and video. By subscription.
  • The Singing Life of Birds. Donald Kroodsma, Houghton Mifflin, 2005. Terrific book (plus CD), a must read.
  • The Songs of Wildbirds. Lang Elliott., Houghton Mifflin, 2005. Excellent photos with high quality recordings including some rare ones such as the flight song of the Western Meadowlark.
  • The Sound Approach to Birding. A guide to understanding bird sound. A. van de Berg, M Constantine, M. Robb. Superb discussion of bird calls and song with 2 CDs.
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