chap (July, ME)
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puck (May, NJ)
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puck, tzzap, puk-puk-puk (Nov, PA)
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chip (May, NJ)
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Puk-puk-puk, by a single aggressive bird in a foraging flock. This call is often heard at dusk. At the end of the recording the birds suddenly flush with high pitched flight calls (Feb, NJ).
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A musical variant of the call (Mar, PA)
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Quiet calls by one bird close to another (Mar, PA).
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The whistle call is ventriloquial and is heard when an intruder is close to the nest or in the presence of a hawk (May, NJ).
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Most thrushes have this "hawk alarm" call. This is a Veery (May, PA).
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Like the robin, the Veery has a number of contact and alarm calls. Interestingly, Veeries also show a lot of variability in their flight calls.
(May, NJ)
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(May, NJ)
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(May, NJ)
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(May, NJ)
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This Veery call is wren-like (May, NJ).
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Hermit Thrush wheer, this call seems to be heard more often on the breeding grounds (July, ME)
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The chup call is the most frequently heard call during the day in migration, especially at dawn (Apr, PA).
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Swainson's Thrush whip calls (with song phrases, July, ME).
whip and werr, (breeding grounds in Alaska in June).
whip-werr and other calls (July, ME)
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Gray-cheeked Thrush, two calls, peeuu and pyu, also on breeding grounds in Alaska in June. Presumed alarm call, but similar to flight call.
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In migration Swainson's and Gray-cheeked Thrushes are very vocal while flying at night and when first landing before dawn, but are mostly silent during the day.
The Wood Thrush has a soft bubbly alarm (with Gray Catbird calls, July, PA).
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This progresses into a whit-whit-whit with further agitation (May, NJ).
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intermediate call
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Calls by several Wood Thrushes shortly after sunset (June, PA).
The Eastern Bluebird has a chatter-like call used both as an alarm call and, as in this case, amongst birds in a migrating flock (about a dozen birds, Oct, PA).
Also heard are trill-like interaction calls, at 6-9 and 19-23s.
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Aggressive reaction between two birds, with a third singing (Oct, PA).
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These are soft contact calls between several birds, and were barely audible (Jan, PA)
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1 comment:
I just found this blog and think it is fabulous. I am organizing morning group bird sits at a local pond, and this morning, I heard a "wheeze" I couldn't identify. Luckily, the local audubon society publishes an online profile of the location, listing many of the birds heard in the fall. But allaboutbirds.org didn't have the call I was looking for. You recorded the exact thing I heard this morning: Hermit Thrush calls!! Thanks for this great website.
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