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With increased agitation, it is given at a more rapid rate (Apr, PA).
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A higher version (June, NJ).
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(Nov, PA).
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Here the often doubled high-pitched calls are by a female and seem to be in response to a hawk, as a sharp-shinned hawk flew by at 125s (louder callsby male, Mar, PA)
Another common call sounds more like a tsik (Oct, PA)
(Nov, PA)
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These rising calls by Northern Cardinals can sound similar to some of the rising warbler calls, for example Ovenbird.
In this case some of the calls were two or three-parted (Sep, PA).
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This lower call was in response to a cat (Aug, PA)
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The calls by this agitated female cardinal include the above lower call in rapid series, and a soft, low whip at 7, 9 and 20s (July, PA).
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These notes were given in rapid series by either a female or juvenile (July, PA).
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The took call is a quiet call given in close encounters, as when approaching the nest with food or in courtship feeding. In this case, it was birds at a feeder (Jan, PA).
Two birds are chasing each other (Apr, PA).
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The took call is associated with a soft high call. Here a male and female were perched close to each other. I couldn't determine which bird was calling (Dec, PA).
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Scolding call by a male towards another male at a feeder (Feb, PA).
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The alarm call of the Indigo Bunting is a dry twik (female, Jul, NJ).
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Another example on breeding grounds (Jun, NJ).
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Indigo Buntings have a higher, metallic pink call, given when in a high state of agitation (male, June, NJ).
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The Blue Grosbeak call is fairly similar in sound and sonagram to the call of the White-crowned Sparrow, but a little lower and less metallic (July, DE).
(May, NJ)
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(Aug, NJ)
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The Dickcissel alarm call is a whit, recalling Willow Flycatcher (Oct, PA).
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The Rose-breasted Grosbeak has a unique squeaky contact call, it sounds like a sneaker in a gym. The Rose-breasted Grosbeak also has a wide range of other calls that are given during nocturnal migration (Oct, NJ).
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The alarm call of the Scarlet Tanager is the well-known chick-burr (May, PA). The chick-burr call (sometimes abbreviated to just the "chick") is also incorporated into the dawn song, see
Tanagers, Buntings and Grosbeaks : songs.
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The chick call is similar to the chup call of Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warblers but more forceful (Sep, PA).
(Sep, PA)
(female, with Red-eyed Vireo, May, PA).
Same call, by a male collecting food for a Brown-headed Cowbird fledgling, heard in the background (June, PA)
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Scarlet Tanager female on nest being fed by male, contact/begging calls (hu-dee call of Evans and O'Brien, more or less identical to juvenile begging call, May, PA).
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Another example of this call at dawn by a perched migrant. This call is the same as the begging call of fledglings and is similar to some calls of Veery (Sep, PA)
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Summer Tanager pi-ti-tuck alarm call (May, NJ).
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Alarm call followed by a pew call (May, NJ).
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