Bird Song Mnemonics

Bird Song Mnemonics The following table contains a track listing and an abbreviated mnemonic or description. It is not a complete listing of the narration following each bird song recording on the audio CD. Please send your favorite bird song mnemonics to: john@ Click here for more info on the CD: Bird Song Ear Training Guide: Who Cooks for Poor Sam Peabody?

Track Title

Mnemonic or Description

1 Bittern, American

bloonk-a-doonk

Bittern, Least

poopoopoopoo

2 Blackbird, Brewer's

whiskey

Blackbird, Red-winged

konklaree

3 Blackbird, Rusty

rusty hinge squeak

Blackbird, Yellow-headed

don't you dare

4 Bluebird, Eastern

cheer, cheerful charmer

Bobolink

long and bubbling

5 Bunting, Indigo

fire, fire, where, where, here, here

Cardinal, Northern

what cheer, what cheer, cheer cheer cheer

6 Catbird, Grey

meaw

Chat, Yellow-breasted

whistles, grunts and rattles

7 Chickadee, Black-capped

chickadee-dee-dee and cheeseburger

Chickadee, Boreal

check the day

8 Chicken, Greater Prairie

blowing into Coke bottle

Coot, American

clucks and trumpety call

9 Cowbird, Brown-headed

bubble zee

Crane, Sandhill

resonant rattle

10 Creeper, Brown

high, thin, melodic whistle

Crossbill, White-winged

kip kip

11 Crow, American

crow or car

Cuckoo, Black billed

coo coo coo

12 Cuckoo, Yellow-billed

gutteral, rattling

Dickcissel

dick, dick, sizzle, sizzle

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Dove, Rock 14 Dowitcher, Short-billed

Duck, Wood 15 Eagle, Bald

Egret, Great 16 Finch, House

Finch, Purple 17 Flicker, Yellow-shafted

Flycatcher, Acadian 18 Flycatcher, Alder

Flycatcher, Great-crested 19 Flycatcher, Least

Flycatcher, Olive-sided 20 Flycatcher, Willow

Flycatcher, Yellow-bellied 21 Gnatcatcher, Blue-gray

Goldfinch, American 22 Goose, Canada

Goshawk, Northern 23 Grackle, Common

Grebe, Pied-billed 24 Grosbeak, Evening

Grosbeak, Rose-breasted 25 Grouse, Ruffed

Gull, Ring-billed 26 Hawk, Broad-winged

Hawk, Red-shouldered 27 Hawk, Red-tailed

Heron, Black-crowned Night

soft cooing and wing flaps rapid flight song what? what? what? cree, cree, cree hoarse croaks unrepeated phrases and veer paired phrases clear! pizza free beer creep chebek quick, three beers! fitz-bew killit thin, weezy notes potato chips and baby honking and barking repeated toy horn notes chack! cow, cow, cow, cowp, cowp House Sparrow chips metallic chink rhythmic thumping in pain aou, aou and demented laughinig tee-teeeeeee keeyur, keeyur, keeyur keeeyurrr barking guork

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Hummingbird, Ruby-throated 29 Jay, Blue

Jay, Grey 30 Junco, Dark-eyed

Kestrel, American 31 Killdeer

Kingbird, Eastern 32 Kingfisher, Belted

Kinglet, Golden-crowned 33 Kinglet, Ruby-crowned

Lark, Horned 34 Loon, Common

Mallard 35 Martin, Purple

Meadowlark, Eastern 36 Meadowlark, Western

Merlin 37 Moorhen, Common

Nuthatch, Red-breasted 38 Nuthatch, White-breasted

Oriole, Baltimore 39 Oriole, Orchard

Owl, Barred 40 Owl, Eastern Screech

Owl, Great-horned 41 Owl, Long-eared

Owl, Northern Saw-whet 42 Pewee, Eastern Wood

Pheasant, Ring-necked

rapid rattle jay, jay and tweedle-dee chuck chuck musical trills klee, klee, klee killdeer killdeer cheer, cheerful charmer uneven clattering begins very high fast ending, jidit accelerating tinkling warble maniacal yodeling quack quack chew spring of the year flutelike, lower pitch kikikikiki slowing clucks ink, ink, ink wah-wah-wah-wah her, here, come right here, dear complex, slurred ending who cooks for you, who cooks for you all? sustained tremolo hoo, hoo-hoo, hoo slow single hoots repeated whistles peewee cow cat

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Plover, Semipalmated 44 Rail, Sora

Rail, Virginia 45 Rail, Yellow

Raven, Common 46 Robin, American

Sandpiper, Baird's 47 Sandpiper, Pectoral

Sandpiper, Semipalmated 48 Sandpiper, Spotted

Sandpiper, Upland 49 Sapsucker, Yellow-bellied

Siskin, Pine 50 Snipe, Common

Sparrow, American Tree 51 Sparrow, Chipping

Sparrow, Clay-colored 52 Sparrow, Field

Sparrow, Grasshopper 53 Sparrow, Henslow's

Sparrow, House 54 Sparrow, Lark

Sparrow, Lincoln 55 Sparrow, Savannah

Sparrow, Song 56 Sparrow, Swamp

Sparrow, Vesper 57 Sparrow, White-throated

Starling, European

chewy, chewy laughlike whinny gidick, gidick, gididick typewriter tic-tic-tic, tic-tic baritone croaks cheerily, cheer up rolling trill churts and creeps tweedle dee dee repeated peets or wees unearthly slide whistle nasal meaw zreeee spooky ascending whinny high whistles mechanical fast trill zhee zhee zhee accelerating whistle tic-tac to see weak insect-like hiccup monotonous chirps rapid buzzes, whistles, trills sweet, wren-like take, take, take it easy maids, maids put on your tea kettle-lettle-lettle slow, even pitched trill here, here, where, where? all together now poor Sam Peabody wolf-whistle and mimicry

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Swallow, Barn 59 Swallow, Northern Rough-winged

Swallow, Tree 60 Swan, Trumpeter

Swift, Chimney 61 Tanager, Scarlet

Teal, Blue-winged 62 Tern, Black

Tern, Caspian 63 Tern, Forster's

Thrasher, Brown 64 Thrush, Hermit

Thrush, Swainson's 65 Thrush, Wood

Titmouse, Tufted 66 Towhee, Eastern

Turkey, Wild 67 Veery

Vireo, Bell's 68 Vireo, Blue-headed

Vireo, Philadelphia 69 Vireo, Red-eyed

Vireo, Warbling 70 Vireo, Yellow-throated

Warbler, Bay-breasted 71 Warbler, Black and White

Warbler, Blackburnian 72 Warbler, Blackpoll

Warbler, Black-throated Blue

wit wit trip trip long notes and twitters resounding trumpetingt fast chitters sore-throat robin, chickburr soft quacks rubber duck squeaks heron-like scream harsh kerrr drop it, drop it, pick it up, pick it up why don't you come to me? run to your home hear me flute-like eee-oh-lay peter peter peter drink you tea and towhee gobbles and wing flutter descending veer veer veer veer and veer! note cheedle chee chee cheedle chew See you, be-seeing ya, so long weaker, higher pitch here I am, over here, vireo when I see you I will squeeze you and I'll squeeze you till you squirt Three-a, three-a teasy, teasy, tease wheezy, wheezy, wheezy, wheezy zee zee zee tititi zeeee ti Ti TI Ti ti I am lazy or beer beer beer beer

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Warbler, Blue-winged 74 Warbler, Canada

Warbler, Cape May 75 Warbler, Cerulean

Warbler, Chestnut-sided 76 Warbler, Connecticut

Warbler, Golden-winged 77 Warbler, Hooded

Warbler, Kentucky 78 Warbler, Magnolia

Warbler, Mourning 79 Warbler, Nashville

Warbler, Ovenbird 80 Warbler, Palm

Warbler, Parula Northern 81 Warbler, Pine

Warbler, Prothonotary 82 Warbler, Redstart

Warbler, Tennessee 83 Warbler, Wilson's

Warbler, Worm-eating 84 Warbler, Yellow

Warbler, Yellowthroat Common 85 Warbler, Yellow-rumped

Warbler, Yellow-throated 86 Waterthrush, Louisiana

Waterthrush, Northern 87 Waxwing, Bohemian

Waxwing, Cedar

bee buzz chip chip dippety chipety dip seat seat seat beer beer beer si si zee pleased pleased pleased to meet ya tip tupa teepo tupa teepo or whip it, whip it up, whip it good bee buzz buzz buzz twee twee twee-teeo cheree cheree cheree sweeter, sweeter, sweetest chury chury to meet you seebit seebit seebit seeseesee teacher teacher teacher buzzy zzizzizzizzizzizzi zeeee-up and da-da-da-that's all folks! slow musical trill sweet sweet sweet seeseeseeit and chiva chiva chiva take-take-take-a-swig swig swig chchchchug chchchchchchew insect-like trill sweet sweet little more sweet witchety, witchety, witchety variable trill seea seea tutu tu-ee see you, see you, nice to meetya, chao nice old ladies don't chew lower trill very high thin whistle

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Willet 89 Woodcock, American

Woodpecker, Downy 90 Woodpecker, Hairy

Woodpecker, Pileated 91 Woodpecker, Red-bellied

Woodpecker, Red-headed 92 Wren, Carolina

Wren, House 93 Wren, Marsh

Wren, Sedge 94 Wren, Winter

Yellowlegs, Greater 95 Yellowlegs, Lesser

descending ha ha ha, ha ha ha paint pick peek loud repeated call sure low croaks chewy chewy chewy rich complex chatter reedy rattle chat chit chat chachachachacha rapid stream of clear notes dear dear dear you you

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