Search Results matching tag 'calls'

What owl is this in Ohio? Or other bird?

mobailey34 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:58:53 GMT

Trying to attach an MP3...I hope it works. These two were calling to each other in my yard the other night just after dusk. May have to turn up the volume to hear them. Someone thought maybe they were coyote pups, but I got very close to the tree it was in and whatever it was, it flew over me to another tree. So it's definitely not a coyote!

Thanks for any info/thoughts,

maureen

Another 'bird I can hear but not see' question

sandyrvrsd — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:51:03 GMT

I am in So. CA (suburban Riverside County). This bird(s) just appeared this week. It makes the same short whistle sound, that repeats every 2 seconds or so. This goes on for hours. Searched my guides and the Net but can't figure out what it is. Any ideas?

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.

Unknown rainy day bird call

Steve0701 — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:19:20 GMT

Here is a 40 second sound clip from a happy bird that I heard, but never saw at first light this morning. I am in suburban Philadelphia, PA and it was raining lightly with the temperature in the mid-40s. It reminds me of a robin in certain ways, but with an extra warble- at least I think that's the word for it. I'll just apologise ahead of time in case it's some kind of sparrow. All comments welcome. Thanks.

Birds that Growl

kgrindle — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 06:01:04 GMT

My friend is convinced there is a bear in the woods outside his house. He hears it growl late at night and it scares the beejeezus out of him. I have assured him that it's not a bear, but he doesn't believe me. I think the sound he hears is a bird. Perhaps an owl, nightjar or egret (shorebird). Can anyone help identify this mysterious bear-bird? What bird might make a sound like a growling bear?

unknown bird call in northern California

katulka — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:41:09 GMT

Please help a beginner - I can't get this song out of my head without learning what it is!

I heard a very distinctive but unidentified bird call 2 weeks ago at Point Reyes National Seashore, near the Fivebrooks trailhead. The call was coming from near the top of trees in mixed forest (willow, spruce, bay, etc.) between a small pond and a trickling stream.

The call was undulating in tone, rising and increasing in tempo. Something like this:

                                REEE
                          re
                            re
                     re
                     re
re     re
   re       re

The sound was similar to Swainson's Thrush but not it. The final note almost had an echoing quality.

In the same area, I did see another bird for only a moment and thus could not ID it precisely. It looked to me like a vireo (gray/olive with eyering and relatively large bill) and was eating berries. Could this bird have been the one singing?

Thank you for any suggestions!
Kate

new bird call

maggie2 — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:14:13 GMT

i recently heard a new bird call. i heard it for 3 days and then nothing. the call sounded like teacher tia teacher tia tia teacher. some one sugested it was an ovenbird. but i listened to the call of an oven bird and it was nothing like it. i live in wetern pennsylvania in the country. the call was very distinctive.

Please help ID bird by it's call

momma s — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:23:25 GMT

Hello. There is a bird that favors the tree right outside our bedroom window, and is the first one up each morning. My home backs to a mile-wide section of woods along the Potomac River in Loudoun, VA. I've never seen it, but I stumbled upon it while listening to bird calls (trying to find my mystery bird!). It's in the background of this bird call for a painted bunting, at about 6 seconds then again at 16 seconds into the recording:

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Painted_Bunting.html#sound

If anyone can help me find out what this bird is, I would greatly appreciate it!

Mewing Bird

Mew1298 — Thu, 03 May 2007 19:05:00 GMT

I am in the North Georgia mountain area in light woods. I keep hearing what sounds like a cat crying in the afternoons. I think it's a bird because the sound seems to move but I have never seen anything. Help!

Help Identify a Common Call

Acajjou — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:58:31 GMT

Hello!

Thanks for such a great site! I know almost nothing about birds, but it was a great interest of my grandparents. Many happy memories watchng killdeer guard their nests in their front yard!

My question might be fairly difficult, since I didn't get to see the bird at all. I live in Indianapolis, Indiana - urban area, but our apartment is bordered by a thin ring of wooded area, which surrounds a small creek that feeds into a man-made pond. I heard the call this morning, around 9 am - there is snow on the ground and it is COLD!

The call was very consistent - two-three identical longer notes sounding somewhat lower pitched followed by three-four short staccato higher pitched trills.

I know this is not a lot to go by, but I thought I'd give it a shot. This is a call that I've heard a lot in our area, so it is probably a fairly common Indiana bird.

Thank you!