Birding By Ear

Hawks Vs. Eagles

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Other helpful links include:
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/
https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds/
https://xeno-canto.org/
Music is Called Good Thoughts by Diana Taylor from https://taketones.com/track/good-thoughts
 
 

Gulls Are Birds Too

That's right today we are listening to the somewhat grating sounds of SeaGulls, aka Gulls. Most of my information came from these two blog posts: 
https://earbirding.com/blog/archives/4538
https://earbirding.com/blog/archives/3994
 
We divide gulls into four groups, based on their long calls: High Yelpers represented by the Herring Gull (6:30), Low yelpers represented by California Gulls (7:45) Slow Squealers represented by the Ring-Billed gull (9:02) and Nasal represented by Franklin's Gull (10:30). 
 
Feel free to email me at birdingbyearpodcast@gmail.com or through Facebook at BirdingByEarPodcast. 
Other helpful links include:
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/
https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds/
https://xeno-canto.org/
Music is Called Good Thoughts by Diana Taylor from https://taketones.com/track/good-thoughts
 
 

Crossbills Have You Cross-eyed?

This is the most intimidating episode I’ve attempted to make to date. So please remember I’m not an expert birder i put these episodes together to help me learn  I which means I’m still learning. Today we are going to tackle one of the harder bird sound identification challenges there is. Today we’re talking about crossbills.
White Winged Crossbill (5:35) Red Crossbills (8:28) Flight Calls starting at (11:20) Cassia Crossbill (14:00). 
A lot of the information I share come from the following articles. 
https://earbirding.com/blog/archives/31
https://earbirding.com/blog/archives/193
Ebird Article
 
Sound Credits: 
From Xeno-canto.org Andrew Spencer and James Bradley
From Macalay Library:
277597731 Audio Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra Andrew Spencer
184515141 Audio Cassia Crossbill Loxia sinesciuris Charlie Wright
162143401 Audio Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra Dave Slager
108050621 Audio Cassia Crossbill Loxia sinesciuris Tom Johnson
77548081 Audio Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra Chris Benesh
71525571 Audio Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra Matthew Young
67240981 Audio Cassia Crossbill Loxia sinesciuris Stephen Fettig
65099811 Audio White-winged Crossbill Loxia leucoptera Andrew Spencer
65099031 Audio White-winged Crossbill Loxia leucoptera Andrew Spencer
64431691 Audio Cassia Crossbill Loxia sinesciuris Andrew Spencer
64374301 Audio Cassia Crossbill Loxia sinesciuris Andrew Spencer
42530661 Audio Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra Timothy Spahr
138318 Audio Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra James Goetz
112167 Audio Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra Charles Duncan
111103 Audio Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra Thomas G. Sander
63083 Audio White-winged Crossbill Loxia leucoptera Dave Herr
103203 Audio White-winged Crossbill Loxia leucoptera Matthew D. Medler
112177 Audio White-winged Crossbill Loxia leucoptera Charles Duncan
137497 Audio Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra Gregory Budney

Mountain Finches

This episode focuses on Mountain-ish, Finch-ish birds. We listen to Pine Siskin (00:48) Cassin's Finch (4:27) Evening Grosbeak (7:15) Pine Grosbeak (13:45), review (17:12). 
Feel free to email me at birdingbyearpodcast@gmail.com or through Facebook at BirdingByEarPodcast. 
Other helpful links include:
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/
https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds/
https://xeno-canto.org/
Music is Called Good Thoughts by Diana Taylor from https://taketones.com/track/good-thoughts
Addition song recordings are from Macaulay Library
273706751 Andrew Spencer
192487 Bob McGuire
125248  Mike Andersen
130769  Nathan Pieplow
125382  Thomas G. Sander

MoCrow or No: Mountain Corvids

Last time we talked about crows, raven and magpies. This episode we talk about mountain corvids, well mountainish; including Pinyon Jay (0:47), Clarks Nutcracker (4:05), Canada Jay (6:20) and Steller's Jay (9:13) and we finish with a review of all the corvids so far at (11:30). 
If you missed the episode mountains vs valleys you can check it out here https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-cghrj-14182ec
 
Feel free to email me at birdingbyearpodcast@gmail.com or through Facebook at BirdingByEarPodcast. 
Other helpful links include:
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/
https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds/
https://xeno-canto.org/
Music is Called Good Thoughts by Diana Taylor from 
https://taketones.com/track/good-thoughts
 

Crow or No

Crows caw and Ravens croak but what does that really mean? In this episode we discuss to two sepecies of raven including the Common Raven (1:33), and the Chihuahuan Raven (4:34), two species of crows including American Crow (7:08) and Fish Crow (8:46) and two species of magpies including Black Billed Magpie (10:36) and Yellow Billed Magpie (14:13). 
 
Feel free to email me at birdingbyearpodcast@gmail.com or through Facebook at BirdingByEarPodcast. 
Other helpful links include:
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/
https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds/
https://xeno-canto.org/
Music is Called Good Thoughts by Diana Taylor from https://taketones.com/track/good-thoughts
 

Warblers: Virginia, Lucy, Nashville, Black-Throated Gray

Virginia's Warber: 1:15
Lucy's Warber: 4:09
Nashville Warbler: 6:50
Black-throated Gray Warbler: 10:00 
Review: 13:00 
 
Feel free to email me at birdingbyearpodcast@gmail.com or through Facebook at BirdingByEarPodcast. 
Other helpful links include:
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/
https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds/
https://xeno-canto.org/
Music is Called Good Thoughts by Diana Taylor from https://taketones.com/track/good-thoughts

Wonderful World of Wrens Wrap Up

In this episode we finish up learning about the common wrens in the ABA area. Including Rock Wren (1:30), Bewick's Wren (4:17), Cactus Wren (8:30), Canyon Wren (10:34), Marsh Wren (14:12), Sedge Wren (16:33), and their calls (18:10). 
Feel free to email me at birdingbyearpodcast@gmail.com or through Facebook at BirdingByEarPodcast. 
Other helpful links include:
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/
https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds/
https://xeno-canto.org/
Music is Called Good Thoughts by Diana Taylor from 
https://taketones.com/track/good-thoughts
 

Wonderful World of Wrens: Neighborhood Wrens

Part one of two all about wrens. This episode focuses on Neighborhood wrens including: House Wren (1:05), Pacific Wren (4:45), Winter Wren (6:08), and Carolina Wren (8:35), Calls are at (11:08). 
Feel free to email me at birdingbyearpodcast@gmail.com or through Facebook at BirdingByEarPodcast. 
Other helpful links include:
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/
https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds/
https://xeno-canto.org/
 
 

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