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!