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Alternating trills, musical or buzzy, often quite prolonged.
me me me me me -buzzz trill |
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little yellow and black faces
squeek squeek squeek whistle twinkle
It’s a fast, high-pitched sequence of sharp, tinkling notes, often rising in pitch to a quick jumble of concluding notes. Songs are typically a couple of seconds long but may go on for more than a minute |
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whine whine whine twinkle chirp
Song consists of two to four long, clear notes, followed by musical slurs and trills. Call notes include a sharp chirp. |
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Song a long series of warbled phrases, sometimes repeated.
fast and whoooey twinkles and can be some click sounds |
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zap zap zap long zappppp note
During breeding season, the male sings a three-part song that lasts 2 to 3 seconds: opening with a few quick notes; then a high, thin, insect-like buzzy middle; and, ending with a quick lower trill. |
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| "Sweet sweet I am so sweet." |
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wee woo weeeeeeeeee woohoowoo
1–6 pure whistles and descends to a series of 1–5 gurgling warbles.
pluk/chuupp sound call |
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| Song is a series of abrupt buzzy phrases and/or bell-like notes. Call is a short bell-like "tink." |
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shrill, rising squee that lasts about 0.8 second, with a metallic sound.
Brewer’s Blackbirds often make a tchup or chuk similar to the calls of other blackbirds |
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3 part song: 2 medium, 3-4 quick, then upward note. Like dial-up internet connection.
sings a loud, clanking song of 2–6 phrases that typically starts with abrupt, well-spaced notes and finishes with a buzz or trill. |
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Call a harsh, chattering "wock, wock wock-a-wock, wock, pjur, weer, weer."
queg-queg-queg, Quesh call |
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| Sing an even, musical trill of 7-23 notes that lasts up to 2 seconds. |
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| 'cheerio cheerio' repeated in low pairs, thrushy quality and notes interspersed. 3 groups of 3 notes, 1st two songs, then trilled. |
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Call a harsh whistled "cur-lee," rising on second note. Also rapid whistled "kli-li-li-li."
shorebird |
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| white crowned sparrow #15 |
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| One long, clear introductory note followed by variable buzzes and trills. |
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| scaipe sound outspread tail feathers creates the haunting hu-hu-hu winnowing sound, |
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give loud, rattling bugle calls, each lasting a couple of seconds and often strung together.
sounds like a door stopper/spring being flicked |
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| Soft bubbly popping, mixed with swishing sounds. |
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| yellow rumped warbler #20 |
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| Usually 2 parted. ending up or down. Looser, progressively louder then running out of steam. |
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| Variable harsh konk-a-REEEE |
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| pill-will-willet call rings out over its breeding territory in the morning and evening, |
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Fast, insect-sounding.
sing a long, dry trill of evenly spaced, almost mechanical-sounding chips. |
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| ring tailed tooey #24??????????? ask |
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| a series of loud caws. You may also hear a “subsong”: a mixture of hoarse or grating coos, caws, rattles, and clicks |
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Males and females both give a fast series of kek notes lasting 1–2 seconds during courtship displays.
squeeky |
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Song a rapid jumble of rising and falling notes, usually ending in an accented, higher-pitched note. "If I sees you, I will seize you, and I'll squeeze you till you squirt!"
eeeah eeah |
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ethereal flute. single intro note, upward spiral.
echo-like tones, described as oh, holy holy, ah, purity purity eeh, sweetly sweetly. It pauses between each phrase, and the song is about 1.5 seconds long. |
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fee-beee or fee feee fee beebee bees are lower
cheecheese burger |
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The flight call is a continuous chorus of shrill cries, hoarse honks, and high-pitched quacks, audible both day and nigh
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| sing a “twitter-warble” song during courtship and egg-laying, with a long series of continuous warbling sounds followed by up to a dozen rapid, mechanical-sounding whirrs. The song can last 4–20 seconds and is often introduced and followed by a chirp. |
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sing a liquid-sounding series of low gurgling notes followed by thin sliding whistles, lasting slightly longer than 1 second.
womwerklewee |
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| give a nasal peent or beer call while flying. When defending a nest, the female gives a hissing or throaty cluck. Courting males give a croaking auk auk auk call. |
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| Song has 3 basic elements: a vaguely 2-syllabled "prll-it" rising in frequency, a rough, low-pitched "prrdrrt," and a clear, high-pitched"pseet." |
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| The song lasts about 5 seconds. It starts with soft, high notes that accelerate into a musical twittering, and then abruptly shifts into a loud series of 2- or 3-parted notes. |
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| Song a series of repeated buzzy or musical phrases. Call a loud, dry trill, or a clear "tick-ear |
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| Song a harsh "fitz-bew" or "rrritz-bew," accented on the first syllable. Call note a mellow "whit." |
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| Squeaky toy noise or chatterlike hoise. |
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| Song a harsh "fitz-bew" or "rrritz-bew," accented on the first syllable. Call note a mellow "whit." |
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| Male gives single-noted whistle. Female gives shrill quack. |
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| black capped chickadee #43 |
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| Cheeseburger or sway-dee-dee-dee |
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| Gray Jays sing a “whisper song,” a series of soft melodious notes interspersed with quiet clicks, lasting up to a minute. |
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| Adults make a hoarse, screaming kee-eeeee-arr. |
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Klee-klee-klee call
merican Kestrels have a fairly limited set of calls, but the most common one is a loud, excited series of 3-6 klee! or killy! notes lasting just over a second. |
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| Their occasional calls tend to be high, weak, and whistled. Call a high yelp. |
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| Songs are a long, jumbled bubbling introduced by abrupt churrs and scolds and made up of 12-16 recognizable syllables |
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womn womn wededwdded rattly
Song rich, warbling, jumble, with high-pitched introductory notes, followed by a short, complex phrase started at a low pitch, then bursting into higher pitches. |
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| Song a gurgling, rattling trill. |
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| ethereal flute. continually spiraling upward |
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Tree Swallow songs are high-pitched and liquid, composed of three sounds—a chirp, a whine, and a gurgle—which they mix and match in a variety of patterns. Both males and females sing.
chirp gurgle chirp twerkle |
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| Robin-like but much burrier and slower; usually not in extended caroling sets. Simpler, burrier, often mixed with distinctive bud-a-beep call. |
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| Song a harsh, burry "pee-eer," descending in pitch. |
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A deep pumping "oong-ka-choonk."
water sounding dropping a rock in the h20 |
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| is a short, sharp peek note also make a rattle |
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| he song (or “perch-coo”) is given mainly by unmated males from a conspicuous perch. It’s a soft coo-oo followed by two or three louder coos. |
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| red breasted nutcracker #58 |
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| hornlike notes that sound like yank-yank. |
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| Call a harsh mewing "waah." Drumming a distinctive slow irregular tapping, easily imitated by tapping on a tree with a stick. |
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| Female calls include a nasal squeal or hiss-like alarm call, and a pete-pete-peta-peta call made before flushing |
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| use a rapid string of about 10 weet calls in the same manner as a song, for courtship and to communicate between pairs. |
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Rattling
give strident, mechanical rattles in response to the slightest disturbance. When threatened they may give screams, which males sometimes combine with harsh calls. |
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| Male's call is a loud, high whistle or a nasal bleat. Female gives loud, evenly spaced quacks. |
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| squawking roh-roh-rohs in a “landing call” when arriving at the nest. |
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The most common call is a raspy mew that sounds like a cat.
Sounds include whistles, squeaks, gurgles, whines, and nasal tones. |
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blue biirddd blue birrrd.
high then low lower high than low lower |
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| imilar to the sound of a whistling kettle taken rapidly off a stove. |
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| Alarm call a loud series of harsh "kak, kak, kak." |
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Call a long, high descending whinny. Also a two-noted "sor-AH" call, with second note higher.
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Ker-wee |
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| Song long and complex series of clear warbling notes. Call a high-pitched, ringing "tew." |
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| yellow headed black bird #72 |
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Males sing a few musical notes followed by a screeching buzz, rather like a heavy door swinging on a very rusty metal hinge.
check check calls |
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