Unknown Call

[Cody]

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.

[Brian Bailey]

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.

BB

[Cody]

Thanks for the suggestion! I spent the past hour trying going through different calls, and it turns out it was an Indigo Bunting.

[Brian Bailey]

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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