My husband and I recently went on a crazy hunt for a kitten near a ravine, only to find a Gray Catbird looking at us 😅 Thank you for all these great mnemonic devices!
I remember hearing robins, cardinals, and chickadees since I was about 7 or 8 years old and they're such a nostalgic sound, like 8am on a summer morning, like nothing to look forward to, but all the time to play.
On my porch, 9 a.m., playing this on my phone as a refresher. A bright yellow oriole landed on the rail, not 4 feet away, looking puzzled. She stayed there till a white nuthatch landed on the back of my chair (cowardly compared to the red species, which habitually land on my head). My birds are brazen as heck, but they ARE fed well & I don't consume much meat. LOVE this particular video; the mnemonics help tremendously.
Thanks for this!! I enjoyed it and have heard and seen many in our backyard! Live in n.w. Illinois and we are now having bluebirds for the first time in my life, and I am 80 years old!
Thank you so much! For over 20 years I have wondered what this beautiful, almost mystical sounding bird was!! As soon as you used the word "ethereal" I knew it was going to be what I was looking for! The hermit thrush! It makes the most beautiful calls in the mid to late spring. It almost seems like it is never near by, always just out of reach. I can't believe I finally found out what that beautiful bird is!!
Cardinal, Robin, Song Sparrow, most common in our backyard here in Illinois....but Junco, Chickadee Tanager, and Blackbird can be heard on occasion. The first ones up in the morning are the Sparrow and Robin and Cardinal. I listen to them when my window is open right before sun up.
Northern DE, I’ve heard and seen white throated sparrow, house wren, chickadee, brown thrasher, Cardinal, Robin in my yard. Once a towhee. Heard the hermit thrush and flicker in the woods before! Thanks for this great list of reference!
A friend and I feed the birds at the edge of an industrial park near some railroad and Metro train tracks. Some of the birds shown here are regular "clients." They rarely sing near the space where we feed them, But sometimes they will sing at a distance before showing up. We have never heard the brown thrasher sing; I didn't know it had such an enthralling song. A favorite visitor pair are blue jays, who have begun showing up since we now put raw in-shell peanuts out. Crows and grackles will also take them.
This one was great, because I do indeed hear quite a few of these each morning! MANY Northern Cardinal calls, I'm not sure (yet) if I have one breeding pair coming around or more than that, but definitely there's at least one male-female pair that comes every day to poke around the yard. Also have two Brown Thrashers but if I can see them they're not calling, if they're calling I can't ever see them, sneaky things! But the Gray Catbird is the chattiest bird, and sassy too; I think I have a family group, though I'm not sure how "social" the birds are - but there are FIVE of them that come and forage, and they will frequently chase the squirrels away from the bird feeder, and just as frequently come to the feeder and holler if there's no seed there yet! They are quite the characters! Earlier in the spring I heard Chickadee and Eastern Phoebe, but I guess they were just passing through, because I don't hear or see them anymore. One of the neighbors has a chimney - so, every evening I get to see and somewhat hear them as they get ready to come back to their roost for the night. I'm very familiar with the Swift's calls tho, because years ago the house I was in also had a chimney, and we had Swifts, and at least one baby would mess up at fledging time and fall down into the house! But we could hear 'em always, chimneys being like they are. Wonderful video! I wonder if you might discuss some of the twilight birds (and other critters) that are common? Sometimes I've mistaken bats for Chimney Swifts, the high pitched calls seem really similar to me, and it's not until I catch sight and see the difference in flight pattern that I correct myself. I know it's really hard to accurately photo in that dim light but even just the calls could be really fascinating, I think!
I had a super chubby one that looked like a ball in my backyard last summer. It took over the water bowl I put out there all day long. Bathed, groomed, sat inside the bowl. So I put another one out for other birds. Then it started walking back and forth from both and tried to snuggled other birds away.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 I couldn't afford the 3rd bird bath last summer lol I wanted to have a sand bath for birth, too. I did make a hanging bath for smaller birds.
Wow, so many haters that must have nothing to do, so they spew nonsense here. Thank you for this! I recently moved from northern Nevada to Pennsylvania and this, including how to remember their calls is very helpful.
I know I have heard lots of these here including the cardinal, black capped chickadee, robin, junco, the various sparrows, red winged blackbirds to name a few.
This is meant as a learning tool for people who want to identify birds while they’re out in the field. If you wanna just listen to birds singing there are plenty of resources online for that, or just go outside.
There is a bird that has a very fast call, and it sounds like quesadillas,quesadillas, quesadillas! Always 3 in a row, and then it pauses and repeats. Have you ever heard this?
You mean "cheeseburger birds?" As they will now forever be known...? Mine make a special news broadcast song after the usual. They all know it. I don't know from where.
Ornithology of the songs, tweets, chirps, whistles, etc. is one of the things that I need to work on. I know some of the common bird calls in my area, northeast US. Thanks for this video, keep up the good work, cheers.
Can someone please tell me if the sound at 8:50-8:51 is really from tree swallows? Or is it a background noise from another bird? I am actually looking for a specific bird sound that I have loved hearing for a while now and I think it's this one, but I searched for tree swallows and haven’t heard the same sound again.
Thanks! These are great. Several of these songs are similar to each other, and now I know I've been mistaking the Thrasher for a Catbird. In my area we think of that Red Wing Blackbird call as sounding like a police whistle.
I have been hearing robins singing for weeks, especially in the morning and evening hours. Evening time comes around and I start hearing that "cheer up cheer up cheerily cheerily" song on repeat. I hear it a bit in the afternoon too, but like 6-8 PM and 4-6 AM is when I hear them the most.
Yes! I was shocked when I found that out. I actually went to an exhibition of his work as I think his artwork is incredible. But when I found out about his method I was saddened by it. I suppose though we may have to consider the era it was done and Also his work helped to keep record of the bird species and his studies contributed a lot towards science and has been beneficial to ornithologists.
There were multiple moments where I didnt know if it the was bird in the video or the birds outside making the calls, so I had to keep pausing to double check 😅 I also have one bird I'm still trying to figure out that's by my house, I never see it, but it always wakes me up at 5am >:T
After a solid 15 minutes, I finally found the bird! It was a Palm Warbler! Not a bird in this video but they migrate to the Midwest in the spring and up to Canada by summer
The issue is.. even if I somehow remembered some 30 different mnemonic devices- the fact they sound nothing like the bird calls they represent is like trying to look up the lyrics to a song I don’t know the name of.
I love my sparrows - I’ve got a billion of them. I still get plenty of other varieties as well. I keep a lot of feeders and trays out around the yard so everyone can find something.
The house sparrows crack me up! Extremely resourceful! I've seen them fly off w a 3 for long x 2 inch strip of plastic for a nest, and once a whole Oreo! They have a field day in my yard, as I'm a mass murderer (of flies). I swat them, and dinner is served.
Oh, the house wren may be that plucky little bird that sings 'all day,' not the warbling virio (vario?). And the northern flicker sounds like a monkey (rain forest). Thanks for the sounds of birds I cannot see. The wood thrush is my favorite, but the hermit thrush is also nice.
God bless you ! I never heard most of these birds before ! They were such a delight to listen to- can you post some bird call videos of south Florida port saint Lucie area back yard bird songs? Would love to hear
Thank you! I've been trying to figure out what makes that distinctive sound I kept hearing. It was the Brown Headed Cowbird "Bubble Z" but it's much prettier sounding in person.
Thank you very much for the anthology of spring birds and samples of their melodic sounds. 😊 However.... honestly, the provided sound interpretations are more distracting than helpful to this bird devotée.😢
Adding these human words to the songs does not actually help. I'd rather just hear the bird than some contrived message. Oh, wait, I thought I just heard a bird say 'vote for Trump!' And another one just said 'she'll be riding six white horses when she comes'. lol
Yeah…these are known mnemonic devices, not just random things I made up. If you wanna just listen to bird songs there are plenty of other resources online or just walk outside. This video is meant for people who want to learn the songs and be able to identify them by ear outside.
I live in Pennsylvania, today leaving work i heard a bird and it had a call that sounded like it was laughing.. cant say i have heard them around here a lot i guess the closes i have can think is the Flicker one .... but the bird i saw had a solid cream color belly... was looking for the type of bird.. i do love birds but i live in the city so... i love the cat birds they are Sssoooo social... i talk to them... the cardinals are bossy they sit at my door and yell at me when the food is gone...
Central BC, Canada here. My wife and I hear a bird (usually very early spring ... but not every year) that we jokingly call the Swedish bird. It goes something like this: Hurdy Verdy Gurdy .................................Hurdy Verdy Gurdy 😄 Have listened to many BC song bird sounds with no luck. And then in summer at night there is what we call the Monkey Owl - it sounds like an aggravated monkey , and then it ends in a soft, drawn out, owl "Whooooo" It's almost like some misplaced monkey is trying to convince us that they are actually an owl and so there is no need to investigate further. 😁
@@BadgerlandBirding Just listened to that after your suggestion; that is very close - so I think you are right - thanks! From what I am learning, not all birds of the same species do the EXACT same sound, and so I think the one around here has thrown in another sharper note or something.
