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
- Harry Woodpecker — lower, more evenly pitched
- Red-headed Woodpecker — raspy call; queer queer
- Red-bellied Woodpecker — nasal trill; chirr chirr
- Northern Flicker — wick wick wick
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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!