Birding By Ear

Learning to Bird by Ear. Come with me as I learn to bird by ear. I created this podcast to help me learn how to identify birds by the sounds they make. So if you want to learn how to bird by ear too come along and lets learn some bird sounds together. I will focus specifically on birds that live commonly in my area, which is northern Utah.

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Episodes

7 days ago

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

Tuesday Apr 22, 2025

Tuesday Apr 22, 2025

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

Tuesday Apr 08, 2025

Tuesday Apr 08, 2025

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
 

Wednesday Apr 02, 2025

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

Tuesday Mar 25, 2025

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
 

Tuesday Mar 18, 2025

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/
 
 

Tuesday Mar 11, 2025

A quick preview for this years upcoming new episodes. 

CBC Special Part One

Wednesday Dec 11, 2024

Wednesday Dec 11, 2024

Are you participating in your local Christmas Bird Count? Today I have a special episode dedicated to the annual CBC. I review three common birds you will likely hear on your own CBC. And then go over three birds most of us will only find in the winter. I discuss Snow Buntings, Common Redpoll, and American Tree Sparrow. 
 
For more information about the CBC and how you can join in check out https://www.audubon.org/conservation/science/christmas-bird-count
 
Send me an email at birdingbyearpodcast@gmail.com

Wednesday Dec 04, 2024

This is a special episode just for this time of year. Around Christmas time volunteers all over the country go out and count all the birds they can find in their local area. This is the second episode I made for to help with the Christmas Bird Count (CBC). I talk about three common birds most people will see on their own CBC the Mallard (1:43) the Canada Goose (3:48) and the Cedar Waxwing (6:39). Then I talk about three not so common species most of us will only get the chance to see in the winter months our winter specialties. This time the winter specialties are Longspurs starting at (9:38). 
 
You can find me on Facebook at birdingbyearpodcast or send me an email at birdingbyearpodcast@gmail.com
Thanks for listening. 
 

Total Towhee Tour

Monday May 06, 2024

Monday May 06, 2024

In this episode we listen to all six species of Towhee that live in the Unite States and Canada. We begin with Spotted Towhee at 01:54, Green-Tailed Towhee at 03:23, Abert's Towhee 06:05 California Towhee at 07:30 Canyon Towhee at 10:41 Eastern Towhee 11:52 Calls 14:12 and a recap starts at 20:12. 
 
You can let me know what you think by leaving a review or sending me an email to birdingbyearpodcast@gmail.com
 
Happy Spring and Happy Birding. 

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Birding By Ear

Welcome.  My name is Beth and I live outside of Salt Lake City Utah.  I've been birding now for over two decades but several years ago I really wanted to take my birding skills to the next level, so I started to seriously study how to identify birds by sound alone.  All their songs, calls, chips, sips, tweets, and cherps.  At the time I wished there was a podcast that would read a description of the bird song or sound, maybe a mnemonic or two and then play the sound.  Then I could be studying bird sounds while working, driving, doing the dishes, folding laundry all the things I do while listening to podcasts.  Birding by ear is such an auditory experience its perfect for a podcast.  But I couldn't find a podcast like that so I decided to create one myself.  I'm not an expert birder but a fellow student learning to bird by ear so if you want to learn too come along and lets learn some birds sounds together.  

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