Search Recordings by Chapter
Expand the series of chapter and subchapter headings to find the species discussed there.
- 2: Birds and Their Sounds
- 3: Why and How Birds Sing
- 4: How a Bird Gets Its Song
- 5: More about Song Learning
- 6: Song Learning Often Creates Complex Songs and Large Repertoires
- 7: When to Sing, and How
- 8: How Songs Change over Space and Time
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9: Music to Our Ears
- The music in birdsong
- A chorus of singers, at dawn
- Ritardando—canyon wren
- Accelerando—field sparrow
- Pitch-shifting, retaining melody—black-capped chickadee
- Contrast—hermit thrush
- Crescendo—ovenbird
- Diminuendo—indigo bunting
- Theme and variations—brown thrasher
- Improvising—sedge wren
- Dissonance—varied thrush
- Metronome—loggerhead shrike
- More music to our ears
- Music to my ears—author's choice
- The music in birdsong
- 10: More birds! More Sounds!
Search Recordings by Species
Expand the taxonomic groupings to find your species.
- Ducks, geese
- Quail, chicken, grouse, turkey, chachalaca
- Grebes, pigeons, doves
- Nightjars
- Swifts, hummingbirds
- Rails, limpkin, cranes
- Shorebirds, gulls
- Loon, shearwater
- Cormorants, anhingas
- Herons, hawks, owls
- Woodpeckers, falcons
- Flycatchers
- Tyrannidae
- Great crested flycatcher, 477-478
- Couch's kingbird, 612-615
- Western kingbird, 612-615
- Eastern kingbird, 612-615
- Olive-sided flycatcher, 379-381
- Western wood-pewee, 606-611
- Eastern wood-pewee, 606-611
- Yellow-bellied flycatcher, 630-639
- Acadian flycatcher, 630-639
- Alder flycatcher, 140-147,630-639
- Willow flycatcher, 140-147,576-578,630-639,640
- Least flycatcher, 361-362,630-639
- Hammond's flycatcher, 630-639
- Gray flycatcher, 630-639
- Dusky flycatcher, 630-639
- Pacific-slope flycatcher, 630-639
- Cordilleran flycatcher, 630-639
- Black phoebe, 382
- Eastern phoebe, 111,148-154
- Say's phoebe, 383-385
- Tyrannidae
- Shrikes, vireos
- Jays, crows
- Larks, swallows
- Chickadees, titmice
- Bushtit, nuthatch
- Wrens
- Kinglets, wrentit
- Thrushes
- Turdidae
- Eastern bluebird, 479-480
- Mountain bluebird, 544
- Townsend's solitaire, 373-376
- Veery, 12-13,462
- Gray-cheeked thrush, 533,661-662
- Swainson's thrush, 461,659-660
- Hermit thrush, 396-399,647-648
- Wood thrush, 116-119,439-444,458
- American robin, 14-21,129,437-438,640
- Eurasian blackbird, 687
- Varied thrush, 120,653-656
- Turdidae
- Mockingbirds, catbirds, thrashers, starlings
- Waxwings, house sparrow
- Finches, longspur
- Sparrows
- Passerellidae
- Olive sparrow, 702
- Spotted towhee, 420-424
- Eastern towhee, 420-424
- Rufous-crowned sparrow, 703-704
- Cassin's sparrow, 427
- Bachman's sparrow, 426
- American tree sparrow, 271-281
- Chipping sparrow, 188-199,497-498
- Clay-colored sparrow, 506-508
- Brewer's sparrow, 501-505
- Field sparrow, 499-500,643
- Vesper sparrow, 291-297
- Lark sparrow, 96-97
- Black-throated sparrow, 425
- Lark bunting, 549
- Savannah sparrow, 388-390
- Henslow's sparrow, 130-131
- Seaside sparrow, 698-701
- Fox sparrow, 282-290,590-598
- Song sparrow, 169-170,640
- White-throated sparrow, 171-172,182-183,298-307
- White-crowned sparrow, 240-254
- Golden-crowned sparrow, 697
- Dark-eyed junco, 186-187,370
- Passerellidae
- Blackbirds
- Icteridae
- Yellow-breasted chat, 433-434
- Yellow-headed blackbird, 88-89
- Bobolink, 308-314
- Eastern meadowlark, 616-618
- Western meadowlark, 550-552,616-618,620-629
- Montezuma oropendola, 711-712
- Orchard oriole, 491-493,640
- Baltimore oriole, 54
- Scott's oriole, 663-665
- Red-winged blackbird, 55-56,325-329,494-496,640
- Brown-headed cowbird, 125-128,330-332
- Common grackle, 691-693
- Great-tailed grackle, 459,680-681
- Icteridae
- Warblers
- Parulidae
- Ovenbird, 534-535,555-559,649
- Tennessee warbler, 176-177
- Connecticut warbler, 532
- Common yellowthroat, 24-26,210-221,640
- American redstart, 178-179,560-566
- Magnolia warbler, 180-181
- Yellow warbler, 489-490,640
- Chestnut-sided warbler, 567-572
- Black-throated blue warbler, 85
- Red-faced warbler, 666-667
- Parulidae
- Cardinals, tanagers, grosbeaks, buntings
- Cardinalidae
- Summer tanager, 599-605
- Scarlet tanager, 599-605
- Western tanager, 599-605
- Northern cardinal, 57-60,121-124,224-226,400-404,464-476
- Pyrrhuloxia, 224-226
- Rose-breasted grosbeak, 61-62,98-99
- Black-headed grosbeak, 485-488
- Blue grosbeak, 695
- Lazuli bunting, 200-209
- Indigo bunting, 173-175,200-209,650
- Painted bunting, 371
- Dickcissel, 87,259-270
- Cardinalidae
- Australian specialties
Search Recordings by Number
Find your number in the following outline of the book:
- 1-26, Birds sing and call
- 1-5, Black-capped chickadee
- 6-11, White-breasted nuthatch
- 12-13, Veery
- 14-21, American robin
- 22-23, Gray catbird
- 24-26, Common yellowthroat
- 27-38, Birds without a song just call
- 27-29, Canada goose
- 30-31, Mallard
- 32, Chimney swift
- 33-34, Killdeer
- 35, Double-crested cormorant
- 36-38, Red-shouldered hawk
- 39-41, Song or Call?
- 39, Red-bellied woodpecker
- 40, American wigeon
- 41, Pied-billed grebe
- 42-62, Female song and duets
- 42-46, Sandhill crane
- 47, Sooty shearwater
- 48, Anhinga
- 49-50, Carolina wren
- 51-53, Wrentit
- 54, Baltimore oriole
- 55-56, Red-winged blackbird
- 57-60, Northern cardinal
- 61-62, Rose-breasted grosbeak
- 63-78, Mechanical (non-vocal) sounds
- 63, Mourning dove
- 64, Ruddy duck
- 65, Common nighthawk
- 66-67, Broad-tailed hummingbird
- 68, Wilson's snipe
- 69, Northern flicker
- 70-71, Pileated woodpecker
- 72-78, The sapsuckers
- 79-89, Why sing?
- 79-81, Eastern whip-poor-will, Mexican whip-poor-will
- 82-83, Virginia rail, sora
- 84, Brown thrasher
- 85, Black-throated blue warbler
- 86, Wild turkey
- 87, Dickcissel
- 88-89, Yellow-headed blackbird
- 90-99, Courtship songs
- 90-93, House finch
- 94-95, Cassin’s finch
- 96-97, Lark sparrow
- 98-99, Rose-breasted grosbeak
- 100-115, Singing in the brain
- 100-106, California thrasher
- 107-108, Marsh wren
- 109-110, Carolina wren
- 111, Eastern phoebe
- 112, California quail
- 113, Western gull
- 114-115, Sage thrasher
- 116-129, Not one, but two voice boxes
- 116-119, Wood thrush
- 120, Varied thrush
- 121-124, Northern cardinal
- 125-129, Brown-headed cowbird
- 130-135, What birds hear
- 130-131, Henslow's sparrow
- 132-133, Pacific wren
- 134, Rock pigeon
- 135, Red junglefowl
- 136-154, Inborn songs
- 136, Northern bobwhite
- 137-138, Mourning dove
- 139, Eurasian collared dove
- 140-147, Alder flycatcher, willow flycatcher
- 148-154, Eastern phoebe
- 155-161, Improvised songs
- 155-158, Red-eyed vireo
- 159, Sedge wren
- 160-161, Gray catbird
- 162-187, Learned songs of songbirds, and babbling
- 162-163, Warbling vireo
- 164-165, Red-eyed vireo
- 166-168, Carolina wren
- 169-170, Song sparrow
- 171-172, White-throated sparrow
- 173-175, Indigo bunting
- 176-177, Tennessee warbler
- 178-179, American redstart
- 180-181, Magnolia warbler
- 182-183, White-throated sparrow
- 184-187, Carolina wren
- 188-221, Big decisions: When, where, and from whom to learn
- 188-199, Chipping sparrow
- 200-209, Indigo bunting, lazuli bunting
- 210-221, Common yellowthroat
- 222-239, Song (and call) matching
- 222-223, Common raven
- 224-226, Northern cardinal, pyrrhuloxia
- 227-233, Marsh wren
- 234-237, Brown thrasher
- 238, Northern mockingbird
- 239, Oak titmouse
- 240-334, Song (and call) dialects
- 240-254, White-crowned sparrow
- 255-258, Black-capped chickadee
- 259-270, Dickcissel
- 271-281, American tree sparrow
- 282-290, Fox sparrow
- 291-297, Vesper sparrow
- 298-307, White-throated sparrow
- 308-314, Bobolink
- 315-324, Anna’s hummingbird
- 325-329, Red-winged blackbird
- 330-332, Brown-headed cowbird
- 333-334, Red crossbill
- 335-360, Mimicry
- 335-342, Northern mockingbird
- 343-346, European starling
- 347-351, White-eyed vireo
- 352-355, Steller's jay
- 356-360, Blue jay
- 361-378, Song complexity
- 361-362, Least flycatcher
- 363-368, House sparrow
- 369, Cactus wren
- 370, Dark-eyed junco
- 371, Painted bunting
- 372, House wren
- 373-376, Townsend's solitaire
- 377-378, Sage thrasher
- 379-419, Small to large repertoires
- 379-381, Olive-sided flycatcher
- 382, Black phoebe
- 383-385, Say's phoebe
- 386-387, Ruby-crowned kinglet
- 388-390, Savannah sparrow
- 391-392, Tufted titmouse
- 393-395, Carolina chickadee
- 396-399, Hermit thrush
- 400-404, Northern cardinal
- 405-406, Rock wren
- 407-410, Sedge wren
- 411-419, Brown thrasher
- 420-444, How a repertoire is delivered
- 420-424, Eastern towhee
- 425, Black-throated sparrow
- 426, Bachman's sparrow
- 427, Cassin’s sparrow
- 428-429, Red-eyed vireo
- 430-432, Philadelphia vireo
- 433-434, Yellow-breasted chat
- 435-436, Yellow-throated vireo
- 437-438, American robin
- 439-444, Wood thrush
- 445-456, What? "Songbirds" with no song?
- 445-446, Cedar waxwing
- 447, Evening grosbeak
- 448-450, American crow
- 451-452, Pinyon jay
- 453-455, Chestnut-backed chickadee
- 456, Bushtit
- 457-458, How birds go to roost and awake: Going to roost
- 457, Pileated woodpecker
- 458, Wood thrush
- 459-476, How birds go to roost and awake
- 459, Great-tailed grackle
- 460, Blue jay
- 461, Swainson's thrush
- 462, Veery
- 463-476, Northern mockingbird
- 477-508, Energized dawn singing
- 477-478, Great crested flycatcher
- 479-480, Eastern bluebird
- 481-484, Horned lark
- 485-488, Black-headed grosbeak
- 489-490, Yellow warbler
- 491-493, Orchard oriole
- 494-496, Red-winged blackbird
- 497-498, Chipping sparrow
- 499-500, Field sparrow
- 501-505, Brewer's sparrow
- 506-508, Clay-colored sparrow
- 509-535, Night singing
- 509-510, Chuck-will's-widow
- 511, Barred owl
- 512, Limpkin
- 513, Great blue heron
- 514-515, Purple martin
- 516-531, Northern mockingbird
- 532, Connecticut warbler
- 533, Gray-cheeked thrush
- 534-535, Ovenbird
- 536-552, Songs and calls in flight
- 536, American woodcock
- 537-538, Willet
- 539-541, Red-tailed hawk
- 542-543, Tree swallow
- 544, Mountain bluebird
- 545, Common redpoll
- 546-547, American goldfinch
- 548, McCown’s longspur
- 549, Lark bunting
- 550-552, Western meadowlark
- 553-572, Each individual has its own song
- 553-554, Red junglefowl (chicken)
- 555-559, Ovenbird
- 560-566, American redstart
- 567-572, Chestnut-sided warbler
- 573-598, Each species has its own song
- 573-575, Ruffed grouse
- 576-578, Willow flycatcher
- 579-580, Warbling vireo
- 581-585, Bewick’s wren
- 586-589, Sedge wren
- 590-598, Fox sparrow
- 599-639, Song changes over evolutionary time, from species to species
- 640-657, The music in birdsong
- 640, A chorus of singers, at dawn
- 641-642, Ritardando—canyon wren
- 644-646, Pitch-shifting, retaining melody—black-capped chickadee
- 647-648, Contrast—hermit thrush
- 649, Crescendo—ovenbird
- 650, Diminuendo—indigo bunting
- 651, Theme and variations—brown thrasher
- 652, Improvising—sedge wren
- 653-656, Dissonance—varied thrush
- 657, Metronome—loggerhead shrike
- 658-669, More music to our ears
- 658, Purple finch
- 659-660, Swainson's thrush
- 661-662, Gray-cheeked thrush
- 663-665, Scott's oriole
- 666-667, Red-faced warbler
- 668-669, Upland sandpiper
- 670-686, Music to my ears—author's choice
- 670-672, Common loon
- 673, Bell's vireo
- 674-676, Barn swallow
- 677-679, Cliff swallow
- 680-681, Great-tailed grackle
- 682-684, Winter wren
- 685-686, Bewick’s wren
- 687-734, More birds! More Sounds!
- 687, Eurasian blackbird
- 688-690, Red-breasted nuthatch
- 691-693, Common grackle
- 694, Black-crested titmouse
- 695, Blue grosbeak
- 696, Golden-crowned kinglet
- 697, Golden-crowned sparrow
- 698-701, Seaside sparrow
- 702, Olive sparrow
- 703-704, Rufous-crowned sparrow
- 705, Blue-headed vireo
- 706-709, Black-capped vireo
- 710, Plain chachalaca
- 711-712, Montezuma oropendola
- 713, Plumed whistling duck
- 714-718, Tooth-billed bowerbird
- 719, Green catbird
- 720, Red-backed fairy-wren
- 721, Bell miner
- 722, Scarlet honeyeater
- 723-724, Chowchilla
- 725-726, Eastern whipbird
- 727-729, Golden whistler
- 730, Rufous whistler
- 731, Rufous fantail
- 732, Willie wagtail
- 733, Forest raven
- 734, Tasmanian devil
Explore
Invitations to explore the world of bird song: 77 projects designed to immerse you in our singing planet
- 1-10
- 1. Chick-a-dee calls of North American chickadees.
- 2. White-breasted nuthatch songs.
- 3. American robin songs.
- 4. Mallard quacks and rab-rabs.
- 5. When and why do chimney swifts twitter?
- 6. Red-shouldered hawk counting games.
- 7. Duets by Carolina wrens and wrentits.
- 8. Listening to female red-winged blackbirds.
- 9. Singing from the nest by cardinals and grosbeaks.
- 10. Whistling wings of mourning doves.
- 11-20
- 11. Peenting and VROOMing common nighthawks.
- 12. Winnows of Wilson’s snipe.
- 13. The “double-strike” of sapsuckers.
- 14. Indefatigable, bachelor males advertising for a mate.
- 15. Singing for more and more mates.
- 16. Listening for courtship songs.
- 17. The puzzling case of the California thrasher.
- 18. Bird brains and special song control neurons.
- 19. Memories of birds and human listeners.
- 20. Seeing the two voices of birds in sonagrams.
- 21-30
- 21. Playing songs at slower speeds, lower frequencies.
- 22. No dialects in the innate songs of flycatchers, doves, etc. .
- 23. Improvised songs of red-eyed vireos.
- 24. The practice singing of young songbirds.
- 25. Listening for practice singing during spring.
- 26. Neighboring male songbirds learn from each other.
- 27. Call matching by ravens, jays, and other corvids.
- 28. Song matching by neighboring western male marsh wrens.
- 29. Song matching by titmice.
- 30. Dialects in black-capped chickadee songs.
- 31-40
- 31. Bicycling among dickcissel song dialects.
- 32. A road-trip through white-throated sparrow song dialects.
- 33. Call matching by male red-winged blackbirds.
- 34. Mockingbird mimicry.
- 35. Tuning your ears to hear mimicry.
- 36. Scaling song complexity.
- 37. How phoebes use their two to three songs.
- 38. Songs of ruby-crowned kinglets.
- 39. Seeing the magnificence of hermit thrush songs.
- 40. Getting to know song repertoires of individual birds.
- 41-50
- 41. Patience in listening to songs of a brown thrasher.
- 42. Once you are attuned, every singing bird becomes interesting.
- 43. Song packages of the Philadelphia vireo.
- 44. Listening for chat song packages.
- 45. Song packages of yellow-throated vireos.
- 46. Listening for patterns in how songbirds present their song repertoires.
- 47. What do songless songbirds do during the dawn chorus?
- 48. Dawn calling choruses in Swainson’s thrushes and veeries.
- 49. Mockingbird calls at dusk and dawn.
- 50. Cardinals awaking—13 mornings to explore!
- 51-60
- 51. Exploring horned lark singing with Raven Lite.
- 52. Warbler dawn choruses are special.
- 53. Individuality among red-winged blackbirds.
- 54. An extreme blackbird challenge for you!
- 55. The thrill of dawn-singing Brewer’s sparrows.
- 56. You can unravel the case of clay-colored sparrows.
- 57. Choose your own dawn chorus experience.
- 58. Night singers!
- 59. Owling.
- 60. Purple martin song flights.
- 61-70
- 61. Sage thrasher songs, through the night.
- 62. Flight songs of ovenbirds.
- 63. Get to know the American woodcock.
- 64. Dawn song flights of tree swallows.
- 65. Prairie flight songs.
- 66. Just when do birds sing in flight?
- 67. Recognizing individuals by their songs.
- 68. Discovering new species by their songs.
- 69. Just what is a “species”?
- 70. The joy of western meadowlark songs.
- 71-77