[TN-Bird] Re: Montgomery Bell SP, Apr 18, 2012

  • From: kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: Tennessee Birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:22:37 -0400 (EDT)

The best way (in my opinion) to learn bird songs is to spend time in the 
field and track down birds singing songs you don't recognize.

Having said that, I spend a lot of time like Jack Black's character in 
"The Big Year", listening to bird songs on my phone at work... and get 
much the same response he did.

A lot of the bird song collections spend limited time on song variations 
and call notes.  Cornell many years ago put out a collection just of 
warblers with many examples of A and B songs, variations, and call notes.
It was hard/impossible to find for a long time but is now available 
electronically (MP3 download) from Cornell's MacCaulay Library website
for $14.99...

http://macaulaylibrary.org/guides  

Most species have 4-6 tracks of song examples plus a track just of call 
notes.  It also includes rarities like Fan-tailed Warbler, Golden-crowned 
Warbler, etc.

Unfortunately, it doesn't help with my biggest problem area... vireos.  
Red-eyed, Philadelphia, Blue-headed, Yellow-throated, Black-whiskered, 
Cassin's, Plumbeous, Gray... those stupid things all sound alike to me.


Dean Edwards
Knoxville, TN


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