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Belted Kingfisher
-dry rattle
-starts with "twee" and then does into rattle for ~2 sec |
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Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker
- its drum is 2-3 rapid beats followed by irregular double/triple beats
- sounds like a cat "mew"-ing --> very short and whiny/nasally call |
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Downy Woodpecker
- lots of high shrieking notes all in a row that go down at the end
- "pik pik pik pik piikkk"
- drum is short and rapid |
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Hairy Woodpecker
-lower, longer notes compared to Downy
- "peeek peek peek peek" --> sounds like squeak
- drum is low, rapid, hollow |
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Northern Flicker
-loud repetitive call lasting 7 to 8 sec
- goes "wick wick wick wick wick wick"
- or, one note that goes "dee-ur" |
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Eastern Phoebe
-says its name "fee-bee" |
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Blue Jay
-makes "jeer jeer"
-"jay jay jay"
- high pitched "deedle deedle deedle" |
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Black-Capped Chickadee
-one sharp note than lower "dee-dee-dee"
-or, sounds like "hey! sweetiee"
- listen for dee dee dee |
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Tufted Titmouse
-repeats "peter peter peter"
- or sounds like "here here here"
- also gives one nasal shriek |
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Red-Breasted Nuthatch
-sounds like its tooting a horn
-" yank yank yank"
- nasally |
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White-Breasted Nuthatch
-lower than red-breasted
- more like a "wa wa wa wa wa wa" repeated over and over |
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American Robin
- very pretty, what you usually hear in the morning
- "cheerily cheerily"
-bunch of different notes at different pitches |
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Gray Catbird
-bunch of random disjointed notes all thrown together
- call is long "meoww" |
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European Starling
- long sound with weird notes all thrown together
-listen for very high pitched whistle
- kind of sounds like something is dying |
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Cedar Waxwing
- really high pitched whistle
-"zee zee zeeeee"
or trilled "bzeee" |
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House Finch
-lively warble of down and up notes
- listen for slurred "zree" thrown in there, usually at end |
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Purple Finch
- sounds just like house finch, but no slur at the end
- just ends abruptly in single note |
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American Goldfinch
- longish twitter of notes
- listen for "po-tato-chip" |
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Song Sparrow
-"twee twee twee triiillll"
- need to listen for 2-3 introductory notes before trill |
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Northern Cardinal
- "too-weeee too-weee too-weee" that is uplsurred at end
- or, makes "cheer cheer cheer" downslurred at end
- almost sounds like fire truck |
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House Sparrow
- nonmusical, just chirps
- just series of one note over and over "cheeriip cheeriip" |
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