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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: mrogalsky on June 08, 2015, 11:55:56 AM

Title: song ID
Post by: mrogalsky on June 08, 2015, 11:55:56 AM

Hello from a true novice in birdsong ID. I'm hoping someone would be interested in listening to seven examples of calls which I recorded at the Marshlands Conservation Area in Kingston yesterday. Most of them are quite distinctive but try as I might I have not been able to match them with other peoples' recordings. I didn't have good visuals for these birds.

There are 7 very short MP3s in this zip file from my DropBox (http://bit.ly/1JzfdRg).

Thanks if you can help!

Title: Re: song ID
Post by: Pat Hodgson on June 08, 2015, 02:50:33 PM

It is tough to listen to short clips out of context but my impressions are as follows.
1. American redstart - hardest of the batch for me, redstart is not very distinctive and sounds like bits of other warblers' songs
2. yellow warbler - only likely to be confused with chestnut-sided warbler
3. common grackle
4. yellow warbler
5. common yellowthroat
6. red-eyed vireo
7. song sparrow

A good web site to use for reference is http://www.natureinstruct.org/dendroica/spec.php/Dendroica+Canada.  It's free, but you're paying for it, if you know what I mean, so why not use it.

Title: Re: song ID
Post by: mrogalsky on June 19, 2015, 10:52:12 AM

Quote from: "Pat Hodgson"

It is tough to listen to short clips out of context but my impressions are as follows.

Thanks for taking the time!
Much appreciated. And thanks for the link.