Bird Songs

Red-tailed Hawk (call)

Keee-eeee-arrr 2-3 seconds

(sounds like what a bald eagle should sound like)

Wild turkey (call)

gobble gobble

(crazy)

Northern Bobwhite (call)

Bob-white! upward sweeping in pitch

(sounds like a whip, goes from low to high quickly in one easy stroke)

Mourning Dove (song)

soft coo-oo followed by two or three louder coos

(if u don’t know this one i can’t help u)

Great Horned Owl (hooting)

h’HOO-hoo-hoo

(the most basic owl call, sounds like a hiccup at first until it steadies out, like it wasn’t confident at first and stammered)

Barred Owl (hoot)

“Who cooks for you?”

(squeaky like a balloon or creaky door)

Eastern Whip-poor-will (song)

repeating whip-poor-will

(sounds a bit like a siren car, keeps repeating, quick at first and last beat whips in the air quickly)

Red-bellied Woodpecker (call)

kwirr

(sounds like if your phone is on vibrate but on a high pitch, or a cry of surprise, uniform lengths, a bit like a squirrel)

Eastern Phoebe (song)

fee-bee

(very high pitched, two steps, harsh on the ears)

Red-eyed Vireo (song)

Broken series of slurred notes alternating downslur then upswing like a question and answer

(sounds like it’s having a conversation with itself, agreeing, questioning, saying no, wait yes!)

American Crow (call)

Series of loud caws

(low pitched caw, like a bed spring or squeeze dog toy)

Tufted Titmouse (song)

Peter Peter

(four or six notes rapid, up down up down, piano notes from one note up to down)

Carolina Chickadee (song)

4 note whistle: fee-bee-fee-bay

(up, down, up steadyyyy, Car-o-lin-a)

Carolina Wren (song)

series of quick whistled notes, repeated a few times: teakettle or Germany

(pretty bird pretty bird pretty bird, 3 calls in rapid succession, harsh end)

American Robin (song)

cheerily, cheer up, cheer up, cheerily, cheer up

(sounds like what skipping feels like, repetitive)

Wood Thrush (song)

ee-oh-lay

(sounds like a cute robot coming to life, like a glitch moving from pitch to pitch very quickly until it falls together in a melodious conclusion)

Northern Mockingbird (song)

mimic sounds around them - repeat each phrase 2-6 times then new sound

(harsh trill, can be variable, only one note at once at the same time, mimics other birds)

Hooded Warbler (song)

loud ringing song weeta-weeta-weet-tee-o

(low 3 beats, then a higher beat that lasts longer, playing hopskotch until it lands on beat)

Pine Warbler (song)

fast trill 10-30 notes on one pitch

(high pitched trill with lots of notes, helicopter taking off)

Black-and-white Warbler (song)

wheesy-wheesy

(not harsh but high pitched, sounds almost like a fairy shaking pixie dust or bells ringing)

Eastern Towhee (song)

“Drink your tea!”

(medium-low-high trill, sounds like an enunciated command with a harsh ending)

White-throated sparrow (call)

“Oh, sweet, Canada, Canada”

(one of the slowest trills, like a train coming to a stop and the engine blowing)

Song Sparrow (song)

loud clanking song, 2-6 phrases, starts with spaced notes, ends with buzz or trill

(sounds like a mechanical object coming to life, glitchy at first and then more song-like at the end)

Northern Cardinal (song)

loud string of whistles speeds up, cheer, cheer, cheer

(sounds like loading a gun fast and then shooting it, pewwww pewww peewww, or sound effects like making snowballs and throwing them)

Indigo Bunting (song)

“What! What! Where? Where? See it! See it!”

(one note repeated twice, one note repeated twice, then a bunch of similar notes, “fire, fire, here, here, help, help”

Red-winged Blackbird (song)

Conk-la-ree!

(like it swallows and then shouts, or a plop of a stone in the water before a ripple extends)