Birding By Ear

Shorebirds LookAlike

This episode of shorebirds features two sets of look alike birds. First Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, and then Short and Long-Billed Dowitchers. 
 
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
 

Shorebirds Common

This is a second episode in a series all about shorebirds. Today we talk about common shorebirds. First the Sandhill Crane, then American Avocet, then Black-Necked Stilts, the Spotted Sandpiper, and finally Solitary Sandpiper. 
 
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
 
 
 

Shorebirds Name Sayers

This is the first in a series of episodes all about shorebirds. We start off easy with just three birds that say their own name. Today we talk about Killdeer, Willet, and Long-billed Curlew. 
 
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
 

Trailer 2026

I love hearing from you. Write me a review and I'll mail you a sticker with the logo for this podcast for free. You can reach me at birdingbyearpodcast@gmail.com or on facebook at birdingbyearpodcast.facebook.com Next week will be the first new episode of 2026
Music is Called Good Thoughts by Diana Taylor from https://taketones.com/track/good-thoughts

Hawks Vs. Eagles

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
 
 

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