Bird Sounds and Calls WITH AUDIO

Carolina Wren (song 2)

"teakettle, teakettle, teakettle" or "chirp-idy-chirp-idy"

Carolina Wren (song 1)

"teakettle, teakettle, teakettle" or "chirp-idy-chirp-idy" with female rattle

Carolina Wren (call)

descending trilling cheeer

Eastern Bluebird (song)

Quiet burbling song

Northern Cardinal (song 1)

Rising "birdie, birdie, birdie" followed by falling "sheep herder sheep herder sheep herder"(according to prof?)

Northern Cardinal (song 2)

Rising "birdie, birdie, birdie" followed by falling "sheep herder sheep herder sheep herder" (according to prof)

Northern Cardinal (call)

metallic tink call

Carolina Chickadee (song 1)

4 note whistle, sounds like "Fee-Bee-Fee-Bay"

Carolina Chickadee (song 2)

4 note whistle, up-down-up-down, sounds like "Ca-ro-li-na" or "Fee-Bee-Fee-Bay"

Carolina Chickadee (call)

Rapid, raspy, dee-dee-dee

American crow (call)

loud, horse caw (dog bark according to ivan)

Fish crow (call)

short, nasal caw (frog croak according to ivan)

Mourning dove (call)

Mournful coo

House finch (song)

Quick and melodic jumbled notes

House finch (song 2)

Quick and melodic jumbled notes - 2

Canada goose (call)

Screech Honk

Red-shouldered hawk (call)

Several second screech

Blue jay (call)

Variable harsh sounds

Northern mockingbird (song 1)

Series of mimicked songbird calls repeated more than twice

Northern mockingbird (song 2)

Series of mimicked songbird calls repeated more than twice,

White-breasted nuthatch (song)

rapid, nasal, fairly low-pitched wha-wha-wha

White-breasted nuthatch (call)

Short nasal yank repeated at variable speed

Eastern phoebe (call)

raspy, two-parted song of their name

American robin (song)

Rhythmic cheerily, cheer up, cheer up, cheerily, cheer up song

American robin (song 2)

Rhythmic cheerily, cheer up, cheer up, cheerily, cheer up song 2

Song sparrow (song)

loud, clanking song of 2-6 phrases that typically starts with abrupt, well-spaced notes and finishes with a buzz or trill

Song sparrow (song 2)

loud, clanking song of 2-6 phrases that starts with abrupt, well-spaced notes and finishes with a buzz or trill

Brown thrasher (song)

Series of mimicked songbird calls with each phrase repeated twice

Tufted titmouse (song 1)

Sweet peter-peter-peter

Tufted titmouse (song 2)

Sweet peter-peter-peter

Tufted titmouse (call)

scratchy tsee-day-day-day

Eastern towhee (song)

drink-your-tea song with extended trilling tea note

Eastern towhee (call)

two syllable call

Downy woodpecker (call)

high pitched pik or chik

Red-bellied woodpecker (call)

Rolling churr, chucking cha call

Red-winged Blackbird (song)

conk-la-ree! song starts with an abrupt note that turns into a musical trill.

Blue-gray gnatcatcher (call)

A sharp, mewing zeee, or chay contact call is uttered in bursts of 2 to 6 notes about a second apart

Blue-gray gnatcatcher (song)

long, squeaky series of 4-8 short, soft phrases

American goldfinch (call)

"Watch me go" (sometimes known as potato chip)

Common grackle (call)

a very short, harsh chaa or chitip call

Belted kingfisher (call)

strident, mechanical rattles

Ruby-crowned kinglet (call)

harsh, fast, two-parted scold

Ruby-crowned kinglet (song)

soft, high notes that accelerate into a musical twittering, and then abruptly shifts into a loud series of 2- or 3-parted notes.

Ovenbird (song)

rapid, resounding tea-cher, Tea-cher, TEA-cher growing louder over the first few repetitions

Barred owl (call)

"Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you-all?"

Chipping sparrow (song)

long, dry trill of evenly spaced, almost mechanical-sounding chips

House sparrow (song)

simple song of one or a series of cheep or chirrup notes

White-throated sparrow (song)

a pretty, thin whistle that sounds like Oh-sweet-canada-canada or Old-Sam-Peabody-Peabody

European starling (song)

Diverse songs with loud whistles or softer, jumbled warbling - can imitate meadowlarks, jays, and hawks

European starling (song 2)

Diverse, variable songs with loud whistles or softer, jumbled warbling containing some mimicry

Hermit thrush (song)

oh, holy holy, ah, purity purity eeh, sweetly sweetly

Yellow-rumped warbler (song)

slow, soft, sweetly whistled warble or trill, 1-3 seconds, mostly even pitch

Yellow-throated warbler (song)

a series of clear notes that roll into each other, dropping slightly in pitch

Pileated woodpecker (call)

high clear piping calls that last several seconds

Louisiana waterthrush (song)

starts with 2-4 sweet clear descending whistles