Cassin’s finch
Chapter 3: Why and How Birds Sing
Subchapter: Courtship songs
From page 31 in the book.
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Photo by Laure Wilson Neish
♫94. Normal song, rather similar to that of the closely related house finch. Hear the imitated call note of the western tanager at 0:05.4? May 30, 2009. Lava Hot Springs, Idaho. (2:12)
♫95. Song of a male apparently courting a female, muted, punctuated with high, intense notes. Listen for the mimicry of the northern flicker (0:04, 0:12) and ruby-crowned kinglet (0:02, 0:12). If you check this song out in Raven Lite, look carefully at 0:04.8 (almost five seconds into the recording), where two different sounds used simultaneously reveal that he's using his two voice boxes here. June 2, 2009. Old Faithful, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. (0:18)
For model sounds of the tanager, see ♫602; for the flicker, ♫335; for the ruby-crowned kinglet, ♫387.