Here I list all the birds that my wonderful environmental science teacher wanted us to learn, especially by their call. There's some notes on how they sound, too.

  • Northern mockingbird - repeats more than 3 times.
  • Brown thrasher — repeats once or twice
  • Gray catbird — harsh, non-repeating, squeaky, less melodic, meow
  • Downy Woodpecker — descending whinny
    • Call note - pick
  • Harry Woodpecker — lower, more evenly pitched
    • Call note - peek
  • Red-headed Woodpecker — raspy call; queer queer
  • Red-bellied Woodpecker — nasal trill; chirr chirr
  • Northern Flicker — wick wick wick
    • Call note - clear
  • Pileated Woodpecker — ki ki ki
  • Harry Woodpecker
  • Belted KingFisher - rattle
  • American Robin — lengthy carol, short up and down phrases; chirly cheer up
  • Scarlet Tanager — American robin; chick burr
  • Summer Tanager — similar in sing-songy ness; picky tucky tuck
  • Rose-breasted Grosbeak — rich tone, whistler, robin taking voice lessons; chink
  • Red eyed vireo - here I am, where are you?
  • Yellow throated vireo — three A ... three A
  • Cedar Waxwing - z, z, z, z, sounds like a fly or cricket
  • Brown Headed Cowbird — bubble bubble z,
  • Eastern Kingbird — sounds like electrical sparks between 2 wires
  • European Starling — sweaky, wolf whistle, clicks, talented mimic
  • Northern Cardinal — down slur, up slur, two repeated notes; down: cheer, cheer; up: “whee, whee”
    • two-syllable whistle: purdy, purdy
    • loud distinctive chip note
  • Tufted Titmouse - here, here, here
    • cheeba, cheeba, cheeba”
  • Northern Oriel - flute-like whistle
    • two-word phrase similar to titmouse and cardinal
  • Western Meadowlark - two down whistles, spring of thee year
  • Field Sparrow - trill, meadowlark pitch
    • ping pong ball dropping on a table
  • White-throated Sparrow - ohh said, pibbity pibbity, pibbity.
  • Great-crested Flycather - wheep, wheep; thri, thri, thri
  • Acadian Flycather - sharp, abrupt vocalization: pit-zi
    • nasal call – ank ank
  • White-crested Nuthatch - nasal call, repeated single note for song
  • American Woodcut - simple, repeated nasal sound
  • Green-backed Heron - skeow
  • Black-crowned Night Heron - sounds like a dog, “cwak” bird
  • Ring necked Peasant - loud two noted squawk, soft wing sound after
  • Bobolink - bubbly song, sings too many notes at once, gains complexity as it moves along
    • Call note: clink clink
  • House wren - loud impulsive bursts
    • characteristic scolding chattel–sound like a lawn mower
  • American Goldfinch - high pitch, pachicurry
  • Whippoorwill - repeated wippoorwill
  • Chockwill Widow - chock will widow, but repeated less
  • Black-capped Chickadee - chickadee, dee dee
    • “Phoebe” song
  • Carolina Chickadee - higher and faster, “Phoebe-pheebay” or “Pheobe-be-bay”
  • Eastern Phoebe - abruptly sounding his name
  • Eastern Wood Pewee - slow, plaintive whistle, pewerr
  • Killdeer - ki diiii, di di di
  • Northern Bobwhite - bob ... white!
  • House finch - raspy sounding notes, zree
  • Purple Finch - clearer song than house finch, lively song
  • Warbling Vireo - evenly measured tempo
  • Orchad Oriel - wheer near the end
  • Canada geese - barking of hound
  • American crow - caw caw
  • Bluejay - call: quidlili
  • House Sparrow - chuy chuy
  • Red-winged Blackbird - konkeree
  • Common Grackle
  • Song Sparrow - maids, maid, put on your kettle, ettle ettle
  • Black and White Warbler - wheeza wheeza
  • Oven Bird - teacher, teacher
  • Kentucky Warbler - churry churry
  • Carolina Wren - tea kettle tea kettle tea kettle, tea
  • Hooded Warbler - twheat, twheat, twheatio!
  • Common Yellow Throat - witchidy witchidy
  • Yellow Warbler - sweet, sweet, sweet, little more sweet
  • Black Throated Green Warbler - zee zu zee, zee zee
  • American Red Stark - zhi zhi zhi zhio
  • Wood Thrush - eoley
    • Call note: pit pit pit
  • Veer
  • Hermit Thrush
  • Ruffed Grouse - wings beating
  • American Woodcock
  • American Bittern
  • Chimney swip
  • White eyed Vireo - chick pie wheo, chick
  • Eastern bluebird
  • Roufous sided towhee - drink your teeee!
    • Call note: towhee!
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