Dawn Chorus
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During late April through early June, if you can get to a nice natural habitat in an area without much background noise (from traffic, planes, talking, etc.), you often will be immersed in a wide variety of songs from many bird species. It is usually referred to as a dawn chorus, often most intense from 20 minutes before sunrise until about an hour or so after. There have been special times when I could hear about two dozen different singing species from where I stood listening. In this Cornell link the loudest birds being heard are Blue Jay, Wood Duck, Song Sparrow, and Robin. The video in that link includes a cool spectrogram of the bird calls.. just before the end is a rising whistle from a wood duck.
Bird song is often used as a 'relaxing background' for some during work, study, and rest. Maybe you could try to use a device to record 30 seconds of a mini bird song chorus using the Voice Memos app from Apple. If you emailed that to me I could try to help identify birds you heard. |
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This 1 minute recording of mine includes: Wood Thrush, Tufted Titmouse, Cardinal, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Eastern Wood Pewee, and Acadian Flycatcher.
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This 2 minute recording of mine includes: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Summer Tanager, Eastern Wood Pewee, Prothonotary Warbler, Wood Thrush, Common Yellowthroat, Cardinal, Acadian Flycatcher, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Carolina Chickadee, Carolina Wren, Tufted Titmouse, and White-breasted Nuthatch
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