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Quiet calls at a feeder also appear to be the same as the flight call (Jan, PA)
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"Bay-bee", the alarm call (Aug, PA).
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Female courtship call (Aug, NJ).
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Waaee (compare with the similar call of the Pine Siskin below).
Female calling, male singing (Apr, NJ).
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A different pair of birds.
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More examples of this call:
(June, NJ)
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(May, NJ)
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Perched male, preceded by other calls (July, PA).
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Ti-hoo, the call of recently fledged birds(Sep, NJ).
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Pine Siskins have a distinctive zzzreeee call that is commonly heard from perched birds, and occasionally in flight too (Mar, PA).
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Another common call is waaee. American Goldfinch and Common Redpoll have very similar calls to this one (Apr, PA).
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(Oct, PA).
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Interaction call between two birds followed by chattering of several birds at a feeder (Oct, PA).
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interaction call
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chatter
Various calls, a number of siskins calling from a tree-top (Mar, PA).
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White-winged Crossbill, quiet waee calls between birds foraging on the ground (Apr, PA).
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The same call here preceded flight calls by birds leaving a spruce tree (Dec, PA).
A flock of 30 white-winged Crossbills feeding on hemlock cones. Calling often ceases while feeding (Mar, PA).
These calls were made by a female Purple Finch that was with fledglings. The fledgling calls are a yo-whee (4 out of the first 5 calls on the recording), but the other calls are by the adult bird. There is also a Song Sparrow and Yellow Warbler singing (July, ME).
There are four different calls made by the female, as shown in the following sonagrams (21-26s on the recording).
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to the left is the high-pitched call with the fledgling call under it
House Finch, several typical calls by birds in my backyard (Mar, PA).
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Interaction calls between a dozen birds feeding high in a sycamore, including two raspy trills (Nov, PA).
1 comment:
I was trying to find a bird call that I hear each morning this Spring just before dawn. It sounds most like the first sound byte on your entries here, by the American Goldfinch. We have a lot of finches here in Fresno, CA; this call is very different from the calls they make the rest of the day. Unlike the sound byte you have of this bird's call at the top, I think it's call is while it's stationary, roosting in a tree before dawn. I never hear this particular call after dawn. Comments? Tnx!
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