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Bird call help

ariana11 — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:26:37 GMT

Ok, there's this bird call that's like: "Pee-yo-pee-yo" and sometimes "Pee-yo-pee-yo-pee-yo". My sister heard it as more of a "Hear-hear". The voice is sort of medium -toned, kind of like the Whip-poor-will's.It's a two-tone bird call and it's falling on the "yo" or "ar"(of hear).

I heard it in Massachusetts, near a forest. I've done the bird search a lot and had no luck. Any ideas?

Re: Seattle - Bizarre single-tone birdcall we only hear this time of year

eagledawg — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:52:46 GMT

You & the others with varied thrush are correct, thank you! I wonder why they only hang out around the evergreens (not enough to call an urban forest) now when the range map has them in Western Washington all year.

This blurb is certainly accurate from http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/200/_/Varied_Thrush.aspx

The best clue to this bird's presence is usually its song, which often seems to emanate from the forest itself, and is generally unhelpful to observers wishing to locate the singer.

I hope one day we'll see one of them!
~Nikki

Seattle - Bizarre single-tone birdcall we only hear this time of year

eagledawg — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:48:35 GMT

I am brand new to birding with our 6-year-old son as part of Cub Scouts and I have to start with saying how valuable this site is with information that has easily helped us identify all our backyard feeders so far... thanks!

Unfortunately none of the suggestions in searching by Washington, unusual, flat, trill etc for the calls are coming up with anything close to the unseen birds we hear for less than a month or so each year that arrived last week. We live in an area of the city with loads of evergreen trees and they're quite good at hiding in there!

They call in a single continuous tone that is sustained for a long time, doesn't really trill or warble, and doesn't vary in pitch except slightly at the end where once they'll drop down a few notes, then with the next call they'll go up a few. It is such a distinctive sound, almost like someone holding down a key on a keyboard set to some strange electronic synthesizer effect.

Does this sound familiar at all to anyone? Every year I've wondered what these are but now I'm on a mission to find the answer!

Thank you,

~Nikki

S.Carolina Bird Call -- any guesses??

lisaski — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:20:12 GMT

Hi there. I have a kind of bird near my house (out in the country, near ponds and swamps, next to a forest, about 20 miles inland from the beach) that I hear but never can see. I think they might be mating right now (Oct.), as they seem to be calling to each other quite often throughout the day. I can't tell if they are in the trees or on the ground.

The sound they make is like a high-pitched laughter, rapid, starting out with a low note on the first couple of "ha's" and then into a higher note, and the speed winds down a bit toward the end. Ahhh-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha or ah-aa-aa-aa-aa... If I mimic it, it is nasal in sound. Also it makes a similar sound, rapid, but not as high in note, maybe like er-er-er-er-er-er-er...

Any guesses as to what it might be? It's making me so crazy because I can hear them but never see them. It sounds like a rain forest around here.

NOTE: Sounds sort of like a Prairie Falcon, but more of a uniform call.

Sound only

montanagal — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:00:01 GMT

Is there a bird in the western U.S. that has or can have a call that sounds similar to a siren or an alarm?

I'm asking this for a friend who was camping recently in a remote forest area in western Montana, the state where we live. She said she heard it nearly every morning during the week they were camping but couldn't see the bird because of the thick forest. I even asked if maybe it was a car alarm but she said no, there were no other campers near them...it was a very isolated area.

Sorry that's all I have to offer as far as identifying but I said I'd try to help. I know that sometimes blackbirds can mimic but I wasn't sure if the red-wing and yellow-headed blackbirds in the area could do that. Thanks for any help.

Is there software that will "match" a bird song/call?

Moccasin — Mon, 26 May 2008 16:30:05 GMT

In this age of computers, I'm wondering if there is any software that will help me try to match a bird song or call. What I'm looking for is a CD or on-line site, like the whatbird.com songs & sounds software, that will offer an interactive option of "sounds like..." calls.

As an example: I live in east-central Alabama, so we have lots of resident songbirds and plenty of seasonal migrants. We live in a rural area of mixed hardwoods with pockets of forest vs. open fields. This means we frequently hear birds that we are unable to spot. My husband and I are not experts, but we are familiar with most of our resident and common migrant populations. Still, we hear bird songs and calls that we don't recognize.

I want a way to identify an unfamiliar bird call by looking up one that is similar, listening to that call, and if it's not the same as what I've heard, I want a link to similar-sounding calls, or "call is easily confused with" calls. This would be like an audio version of the "similar species" descriptions in a birding book. Does that make sense? Does anyone produce such software for the bird-watching consumer?

Moccasin