BIO 554/754
Ornithology

Bird Vocalizations


Students should learn to identify the songs and/or calls of the following species of birds:

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


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

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

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

http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/songlist.html


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