Songs and calls of some New York State birds

Bird Songs in Musical Notation

Swainson's Thrush (Catharus ustualatus)

Recorded on Crane Mtn., July 20 2000. In my record of 20 songs this bird had five different ones A,B,C,D,E (always sung in that cyclic order; songs B and E were almost identical except E was pitched slightly higher; songs may be truncated at beginning and/or end) .

1. Song C. The range of this sonogram is 0-5512 Hz.

Hear song.		Hear music.
Hear song at half speed.		Hear music at half tempo.

2. Song D. The range of this sonogram is 0-11024 Hz.

Hear song.		Hear music.
Hear song at half speed.		Hear music at half tempo.

I put rests between the songs; Mathews has double bars with fermatas. (My bird's pauses lasted about six seconds). Mathews' sixteenth-notes are set in slender type, like grace-notes, and marked p. Each eighth-note sequence is marked cresc. to an f at the end.

• Index
• Introduction
• Veery
• Hermit Thrush A
• Hermit Thrush B
• Hermit Thrush C
• Hermit Thrush D
• Swainson's Thrush

Tony Phillips
November 15 2003