I went to Oregon the weekend before last to visit my friend Mary. I scavenged her computer for blog-worthy content, and came across these sound clips of bird calls. Mary is doing an internship researching wildlife for Tallgrass National Prairie Preserve in Kansas, and the director of her program sent these to her. These will be calls she has to be familiar with to locate these birds in the field to monitor their habits and migration patterns.
American Crow Baltimore Oriole Bobolink Brown-headed Cowbird
Clay-colored Sparrow Common Grackle Common Nighthawk Common Yellowthroat
Dickcissel Eastern Kingbird Eastern Meadowlark Eastern Phoebe European Starling
Field Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Indigo Bunting Lark Sparrow Least Flycatcher
Marsh Wren Mourning Dove Northern Bobwhite Orchard Oriole Red-tailed Hawk
Red-winged Blackbird Savannah Sparrow Scissor-tailed Flycatcher<- OK’s state bird.
Sedge Wren Song Sparrow Swainson’s Hawk Turkey Vulture Upland Sandpiper
Western Kingbird Western Meadowlark
It was really interesting to listen to the songs of the birds that I had thought foreign to me. Upon listening to some of them, I recognized them and could then match the song to an image, in my head, of a bird that I had seen. Even more interesting, was to imagine the birds whose songs were entirely foreign to me and then find and image of the bird to check my imagination. Most often, I was one hundred percent wrong.
