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Songs and calls of some New York State birds

"Speak, cry, warble, call, speak each one according to your variety, each, according to your kind."
Popol Vuh I, 2

Index by Scientific Name. Corrected Errors

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Songs of the Stony Brook Campus

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(hear a tern)

Gulls and Terns
Laridae

(hear a woodcock)

Other Shorebirds
Ardeidae, Charadriidae,
Scolopacidae

(hear a goose)

Geese and Ducks
Anatidae

(hear a loon)

Loons
Gaviidae

(hear a dove)

Doves
Columbidae

(hear a hawk)

+Raptors
Buteonidae, Pandionidae,
Accipitridae

(hear an owl)

Owls
Tytoniidae, Strigidae

(hear a whip-poor-will)

Goatsuckers
Caprimulgidae

(hear a kingfisher)

Kingfishers
Alcedinidae

(hear a bobwhite)

+Quails, Partridges, etc.
Phasianidae

(hear a cuckoo)

Cuckoos
Cuculidae

(hear a woodpecker)

Woodpeckers
Piciidae

(hear a flycatcher)

Flycatchers 22kHz
Tyrannidae

(hear a chickadee)

Titmice and Nuthatches
Paridae

(hear a wren)

+ Wrens
Troglodytidae

(hear a catbird)

+ Mimic Thrushes
Mimidae

(hear a thrush)

Thrushes
Turdidae

(hear a vireo)

Vireos 22kHz
Vireonidae

(hear a warbler)

Warblers 22kHz
Parulidae

(hear an oriole)

Orioles and Blackbirds
Icteridae

(hear a tanager)

Tanagers
Thraupidae

(hear a swallow)

Swallows and Swifts
Hirundinidae, Micropodidae

(hear a jay)

Crows and Jays
Corvidae

(hear a finch)

Finches
Fringillidae

(hear a sparrow)

Sparrows
Fringillidae

chatter

Hummingbird
Trochilidae



Images (not all to the same scale!) are adapted from drawings by Chester A. Reed, B. S. in Chapman.
Vernacular and scientific names follow Peterson and/or Sibley.

This page was reviewed in Wildbird, June 1997, p. 16.
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Novemner 25, 2020.