BIO 554/754
Ornithology
Bird Vocalizations


Students should learn to identify the songs and calls of the following species of birds (a CD that includes all of these vocalizations will be provided for each student):

1 - Red-winged Blackbird
2 - Eastern Bluebird
3 - Bobolink
4 - Indigo Bunting
5 - Northern Cardinal
6 - Gray Catbird
7 - Yellow-breasted Chat
8 - American Crow
9 - Yellow-billed Cuckoo
10 - Dickcissel
11 - Mourning Dove
12 - House Finch
13 - Great Crested Flycatcher
14 - Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
15 - American Goldfinch
16 - Common Grackle
17 - Ruffed Grouse
18 - Red-shouldered Hawk
19 - Red-tailed Hawk
20 - Blue Jay
21 - American Kestrel
22 - Killdeer
23 - Eastern Kingbird
24 - Belted Kingfisher
25 - Eastern Meadowlark
26 - White-breasted Nuthatch
27 - Baltimore Oriole
28 - Orchard Oriole
29 - Barred Owl
30 - Eastern Screech-Owl
31 - Eastern Wood Pewee
32 - Eastern Phoebe
33 - American Robin
34 - Chipping Sparrow
35 - Field Sparrow
36 - Song Sparrow
37 - Brown Thrasher
38 - Wood Thrush
39 - Tufted Titmouse
40 - Eastern Towhee
41 - Red-eyed Vireo
42 - Ovenbird
43 - Yellow Warbler
44 - Common Yellowthroat
45 - Whip-poor-will
46 - Downy Woodpecker
47 - Pileated Woodpecker
48 - Red-bellied Woodpecker
49 - Carolina Wren
50 - House Wren


Recordings of songs and calls of various species are also available at:

http://www.naturesongs.com/birds.html

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/G_Kunkel/homepage.htm

http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~tony/birds/

http://www.virtualbirder.com/bbestu/

http://ww1.naturesound.com/webpages2/naturesound/birds/birds.html


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