Hi everyone-I made a few mistakes! Firstly, the bird pictured at slide #8, labelled as a Carolina Chickadee, is actually a Black-capped Chickadee, as I have been informed and then confirmed for myself (the calls are all correct though!). Second, the image on slide number #68 displays a Spotted Towhee, not an Eastern Towhee as it is labelled (again, the calls for this bird are correct!). Lastly, slide #28 shows the image of a Northern Flicker, which is the correct species; however, this species contains two subspecies: the yellow-shafted flicker of the east, and the red-shafted flicker of the west. The flicker shown is the red-shafted subspecies which would not occur in the east as is the theme of this video. That is all! If you notice any more mistakes in the video, please do not hesitate to let me know! We are a community of learning, and as such, we should not be afraid to offer constructive criticism for the good of another. Thank you all for your understanding!
I also think that 7:48 fits better for a Lincolns sparrow than a song sparrow- streaking is finer and black, the bird has yellowish tinge above the malar strip- also seems to have a buffish upper breast.
@@Revelationscreation Thanks for your input! Looking back, I realize that probably isn’t the best picture I could’ve used, but I do still believe it is a song sparrow. You could be right though! These species can be tricky to distinguish.
Love Crows and the Black Birds singing in the dead of night, like Paul McCartney sang out with joy, "all your life you were only waiting for these moments to be Free", Black Bird Fly..., Ruby Throated Sparrows near by
This was a lot of fun; I love to test my birdsong recognition skills. I am certain, though, that the bird pictured as number 8 is a Black-capped Chickadee, not a Carolina. Black-capped Chickadees have that olive color on their backs, white edges on the shoulder feathers and a slightly washed-out orange on the belly. Carolina Chickadees are more a uniform gray on the wings with a white belly.
Good eye! Thank you for pointing that out. I was scanning through a list of Carolina Chickadee pictures and didn’t think twice about the possibility of black caps being thrown in there when I saw that adorable photo.
I'm in the Wash DC area where I see Carolina Chickadees daily and the bellies are always white, never yellowish. My ear is not that good to distinguish but for #8 I'm upping my score for visual ID by one. : )
I live in western PA and have seen all but maybe 15 or so of these birds. Also about 25 yrs ago I rescued a peregrine falcon in downtown Pittsburgh. Found a baby laying on the sidewalk that had fallen out of its nest. I'm surprised it survived the fall and that no one had stepped on it. After contacting the right people it was placed back in the nest.
My wife and I were raised in Western Maryland and spent a lot of time in PA and Ohio. This video was a real walk down memory lane for us both. We got about 80% correct between us, maybe 50% from voice alone. I must say that some of the songs brought on a very emotional response - like the Wood Thrush. Thank you so much for your time and effort in compiling this. We will definitely listen numerous times more (as we now live in Tucson, AZ) and we miss hearing our Eastern birds.
I am from Baltimore County and have travelled extensively in Western Maryland and on the Delmarva Peninsula. I also summered in Maine. I got about 80% by sight and 20 % by song. I miss visiting Western MD, West Virginia, and Winchester, VA, and of course Delmarva. I am 76 yro and my Dodge Caravan is 21 yro. with only 150,000 miles. I only travel locally due to the age of my trusty Dodge. I brought back some Maine White pine from a dead mature tree and carved and painted 7 birds. The wood was as easy to carve as a bar of Ivory Soap. The first bird I carved and painted was a Loon that resided on China Lake, Maine.
The wood thrush is my favorite sound. I only hear them in the woods in summer on my hikes. They are shy and don’t come down from the treetops too often! I live in central Maryland. 🥰
Yes, it's emotional. I listened to this hoping I could find and identify the bird that makes my favorite sounds, and song and it's this Wood Thrush (23:18) and (I numbered them as they play) so, also # 17, the Song Sparrow (7:24) (which may not be the right name according to one viewer. Lincolns Sparrow?) Going to try looking them up or finding a compellation. When I hear it, I'm a young girl standing in the sunlit woods of upstate New York. Memories & pure happiness. Moved away from NY years ago and miss the birds and their singing so much it's painful. Birdsong is healing. ༄❥
Totally delightful! Thank you for all the time you took to put this together, I'm amazed at what I knew by sound, knew by sight and still missed some I'm not familiar with in my area! LOVE THIS!
Wow !!! ❤❤🤗🤗🙂🙂 This list is the most comprehensive and quite lovely bird list/test I've seen yet. So many wonderful birds, with great audio, and lovely photos. Several birds I'm now able to identify because of this list. Glad to see so many of my favorite birds included: crows, ravens, grackles, cardinals, woodpeckers, etc. Thank you so much for posting !! 👍👍🥰🥰
This is such a good video! Thanks for sharing! In the spring I kept hearing the weirdest sounds from some bird in the yard. With your video I can confirm it was definitely the grey catbird. So fun to see where the bird sounds are coming from! Ps the loon sound is so freaky...
Thank you! I’m so glad it helped you figure out who’s been staying in your backyard! It really is fun to be able to identify the birds in your area-especially in the beginning when you’re making your first sightings!
This came up in my youtube feed, and I'm so glad it did!! I feel like this video is an early solstice present for me! Thank you so much! I'm going to use it as a tutorial and continue to study all these beautiful birds and their wonderful music. Thanks again!
Thank you! Your comment is a present in itself! I’ve always found that when I throw myself out in nature I come across so many joys I could not expect. I trek out to the woods with the expectation to observe the birds, but find many of them instead flitting over to observe me! It’s always the small ones especially, such as the chickadees and kinglets, and it’s ethereally precious to see their crumb-sized eyes scrutinise you in their tiny wiseness.
@@unipigstudios7794 I know just what you mean! They are quite intelligent and sentient! I wish more humans would recognize that! I had the great pleasure, when I lived back east, of having the chickadees eat out of my hand. It was truly a profound joy for me! Now that I'm back in California, I find I miss them! Brave little sweethearts that they are! (of course, many amazing birds here too!) Thank you again!!
Thank you for posting this! For years I'd hear a bird song a few weeks out of the summer in northern Wisconsin. Nobody knew the name of the bird that sang it. It haunted me! As soon as I heard # 30, I knew I found it. White throated Sparrow! Thank you!
The white-throated sparrow remains a mystery bird for so many people! His humble little doings in the underbrush of the woods combined with his rather simple appearance often leaves him unnoticed by many. I’m glad I could help you solve your little mystery!
I loved hearing the songs again, from the sweet high pitched Willow Tit to the deep crackle of the ravens!. Quite a few of these birds are in the Northwest also. I lived in Minnesota and saw the Red-winged Blackbirds, Orioles, cardinals, and my favorite the Loon whose song echoed over the lakes in the evenings. Lived in Washington state too with the crows and especially the loud ravens who were arrogant and made themselves seen roaming the parking lots looking for handouts. Love them all. Such a beautiful video in every way, I commend your attention to detail and perfect design.
Love the way you put this together. I hear the White throated Sparrow #30 and the Woodcock #60 constantly here in Northern Ontario. And many more of the smaller birds I haven't identified yet... Thank-you!
Thank you for all of your work to create this wonderful birding guide. I grew up in Lancaster County but have lived in Colorado for the past 40 years. Some crossover in birds, seemingly more so in the last few years, but plenty of unique species too. Well done you.
I so much enjoyed this! I was able to identify 84 birds and I was surprised at how many I recognized just by their songs. My weakness was some of the water birds, the mergansers, and some of the vireos and warblers.
Thank you for putting this video together in perfect manner!! I love that I could test my knowledge of bird songs, then see your beautiful bird images! This will always be one of my favorite videos and reference ❤
This was wonderful! I was not very good with song identification but did fairly well with sight. Im going to share with my bird nerd friends...thanks for taking the time to put this together!
Having moved to Japan over 30 years ago, I was amazed at how many songs I recognized from the woods of western PA. Thank you for reminding me of those wonderful summer mornings and afternoons spent out hiking.
There were a couple I could name by sound alone. Blue jay, catbird, mourning dove, cardinal, mallard. I knew more than I expected to. Thanks for an interesting video. I really enjoyed it.
Thank you so much for putting this together! I moved to New York recently from South Dakota where I lived my whole life, and I am hearing a lot of bird songs I don’t recognize. This is great!
Thank you ever so much for putting this video together! I did know quite a few by sound alone, surprising myself! But I also need to learn quite a number! This is a fabulous teaching tool!
Thank you for this video compilation. Last summer i heard at least 2 new bird sounds in my city neighborhood but never saw the birds making the sounds. Wish i had had this to attempt identification, as my ancient brain has not retained the sounds!
I really surprised myself at how many I knew, and I'm just a bird feeder birdwatcher (plus some commonly known). I got 56 by sight and 19 by sound. This a is a great reference. I'll be watching it again, several times.
Great video! I recognized just about half of them, but only a few, maybe 8-10 by song (mostly the easily recognizable ones like the Canada goose, mallard, red-winged blackbird, but I also have taken note of Carolina wrens song and the Easter Pe-wee). There were other. songs I recognized as hearing in my woods (western PA) and then recognized the common visitor from the picture. Bonus, the sounds are great soothers for my 4-month old twins to nap to. I will definitely be studying this video in the future!
Thank you! I’m glad you found the video useful. It’s very sweet to hear about your twins! Bird songs make for some of the most soothing music this world has to offer!
This is fun! Thanks! I haven't done it all yet, but will enjoy doing the rest at another time. Being a little rusty at the moment since I haven't been birding in quite some time, I didn't think I would do very well. I am not so familiar with Eastern as Western birds, having lived in the west all my life and done a great deal of birding in Arizona, California, Texas, etc. But out of the 40 I watched, I missed only 5 (a few I just couldn't think of the name, but knew the birds). A good many I knew simply by the song. So I felt pretty good that I remembered this many at my advanced age! I imagine many of the birds will be more difficult the farther along I get. A great video to learn from and practice with. (Good "armchair birding"! LOL).
I surprised myself. I could identify about 1/3 of the birds just by their calls. And I knew about another 1/3 by sight. This is a wonderfully useful video. Thank you.
I loved this!! I could name quite a few by sound alone and then knew most by sight. I was surprised you didn't have the Sandhill Crane, I love hearing those when they return in the spring.
This was Beautifully done! Wow. I guessed all but 11 by song and 6 I couldn't identify. I've been living in Florida for 30 years and only a small amount of these precious birds migrate this far south. So I think I did pretty well.❤ Thanks.
We are coming from Germany . Spend a few birding holidays in Texas. Love this test. We got about 90% of the pictured birds , but only about 20% by sound. It is very difficult remembering the sounds when you don’t hear them often. But it was great fun doing the test. We will do it again before we fly to Texas in April. Thanks a lot.
I live in upstate NY near the Adirondacks, I hear so many of these but my absolute favorite is the common loon call. Hearing that early in the morning out on the water is so magical.
That WAS a lot of fun! I think about 15% were unknown to me. Some I've seen but not heard. Others, I've heard, but not seen. One of my favorite calls is the hermit thrush. I'd hear it in the summer growing up, but I never knew what is was. My favorite category is the thrush family. They all have beautiful songs. I used to hear that grouse trying to start its motor flowed later by the sound of an ax. I learned why that chainsaw never started but I couldn't figure out what made the axsound, but it wasn't an ax. One of the creepiest was the Loon; especially at night in the dark. It was like being in a jungle when camping. Anyway, thanks again for a fun time, and an opportunity to learn.
It sounds like you have some very fond memories with the birds; thank you for sharing! I’ve longed to hear a hermit thrush sing in person, however I’ve only had the chance to observe him in the quietude of his winter grounds here in southern PA. The grouse aren’t so common here as they used to be-it must have been splendid fun to learn the truth about that conking out motor. I seldom see loons, but when I do it’s during migration when they stay for a rest on our vast, open lakes. Have a wonderful day!
Oh, but I did include it! It’s #39 in the video. Yes, what sweet mystery he must evoke when his song sweeps the forest! I heard recently a veery sing by the lake in our easterly woods and, my, how ethereal it sounds when it echoes on the water!
I absolutely love this video! It was so fun and informative! I got about 98% of the visual identification. Think about 30% of sound identification. I will be watching this again! Great way to test and enhance your bird identification knowledge! Thanks for sharing!
Overall, a fine job. I've learned a great deal. Living in the Northwoods of Pa., I'm familiar with many of these birds but always have trouble matching the call with the species. This, therefore, is a great resource. A huge thank you!
i got 37 by voice alone....had to remove 6 from the recordings as these species are not present in my area...however in terms of visualizations I could identify all 94 of the 100 bird species present in my area. Great job, you did on putting this together, excellent photos and a wonderful concept...I really enjoyed it!
There's a song by Bathory named Ring of Gold and I have been looking for the name of the bird that you can hear in the intro. It's the Common Loon! Thank you for this 💚
The grackles or starlings I see and hear in my yard (in southern Ontario, Canada) remind me so much of an _old-fashioned clothesline_ sliding along on pulleys between a house and a post in the yard, that I call out to the bird(s), *"Hi, Clothesline!"*_ 😊 I do bird calls by whistling and vocalizing, and the birds soon fly into my yard and straight to the 6 feeders, chirping and sounding their arrival. Sometimes they're already waiting on the branches or deck railing by my door in the morning or afternoon. Today, I played a continuous recording of a *cardinal* for the first time to see if it would attract the _cardinal couple_ (that I call *Cardi B & Mista C),* and the male showed up first, and ate at the feeder closest to the speaker, then moved to the one at the back, where it was still audible. Half an hour later, the female arrived to feed and _Mista C_ was likely back at the nest, feeding their nestlings. I'm going to play _this_ recording out back now, to see who it'll attract. mostly, there are _house sparrows, the 2 cardinals, starlings, mourning doves and rock doves._ I'd like to see and hear more variety of birds.
Wonderful!! I am going to listen to this again and again, to help with the birds I did NOT know. I love that you include several calls for many of the birds. So helpful!
I didn't expect to identify any by sound alone but got maybe 12. My faves are Hermit Thrush and Wood Thrush. And who wouldn't love the haunting sound of the Common Loon. I miss New England whenever I am not there and realize now the power of bird sounds heard since my childhood. Thank you for this!
Thank you so much! This was great fun and will be again in the future! Great idea! Very well carried out! Keep up the good work! Greetings from Germany!
Great video. I really loved it. I will keep it for reference. I would say i got about half of them by sound, about 75 by photo some I've never heard of. Excellent video. Thank you. ❤
That was a wonderful birding refresher. You used some very good pictures, thank you for taking the time to find good ones. I will definitely be re-watching to learn the bird song better as that is my weakness. Thanks!
Very well done. I didn't keep score on the sounds but would say 75% and 100% on the pictures. Thank you. It was great for my wife also who is a beginner.
