Evening grosbeak
Chapter 6: Song Learning Often Creates Complex Songs and Large Repertoires
Subchapter: What? "Songbirds" with no song?
From page 104 in the book.
Photo by Robert Royse
♫447. Two call notes are often heard from these grosbeaks: a loud, piercing, down-slurred cheer, or peeer, and a quieter, raspy trill. In this pre-breeding flock, in a tree above a feeder, several birds are involved giving a variety of renditions of these two calls. In the background you can hear two tufted titmice matching each other's songs (especially audible from 1:14 to 1:34). April 4, 2012. Cricket Hill, Conway, Massachusetts. (9:52)