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