Outdoor Ontario
Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Cody on May 17, 2010, 07:31:45 PM
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Tonight while walking my dogs I heard this bird calling, and I had no idea what it was. It was in a forest area very close to the escarpment.
It was very fast and hard a very sharp ending
Something like this:
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I was on allaboutbirds.org and I think it sounds like a Cerulean Warbler, but any other suggestions would help.
Not too good of a description but hopefully someone knows.
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It's more likely to be a Northern Parula. Their call is variable, but it's always buzzy and usually ends with a down note. It can be rolling or just a single buzz.
Ceruleans are a lot less common. Their song is very similar, but in my experience, it always starts out slow and picks up speed and rises in pitch at the end. I have heard Parulas do an almost identical call.
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Thanks for the suggestion! I spent the past hour trying going through different calls, and it turns out it was an Indigo Bunting.
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Indigo Bunting songs are tricky because they don't seem to have much pattern. There is a pattern though: they tend to repeat phrases in pairs. They make one sound, repeat it, and then move on to the next, repeat it, ...
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