Uirapuru or Organ Wren, Musician Wren Cyphorhinus arada
A 2-minute record
The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at Cornell has several different and remarkable songs.
"O Canto do Uirapuru: Consonant intervals and patterns
in the song of the musician wren" by
Emily Doolittle
and Henrik Brumm appeared in the Journal of interdisciplinary
music studies
spring 2012, volume 6, issue 1, art. # 12060103, pp. 55-85. The report
was picked up by La Repubblica on 10/17/2013
("Il cinguettio dell'Uirapuru assomiglia tanto alla musica di Bach e Haydn") with a
link to a nice
long record.
Doolittle and Bromm's article mentions several evocations of the uirapuru song in classical and popular music.
Rufous-and-white Wren Thyrothorus rufalbus. This recording, by Jorgen Peter Kjeldsen, is in the Xeno Canto collection. Dan Mennill's Bird Songs of Costa Rica has a page devoted to this bird.
Wood Thrush Hylochicla mustelina
Arguably the
best of the North American singers. This one is
a champion. Notice the double-stopping in almost every register. Recorded
in the Paul Simons Preserve, Saint James, Long Island.
A longer record of the
same singer. Nine phrases, all different, in 37 seconds.
The musicality of the Wood Thrush's song has been exploited in a track by the Paul Winter Consort: The Well-Tempered Wood Thrush.
Another musical evocation of Wood Thrush song: the Music at Dawn movement from Peter Schickele's American Dreams quartet.
Golden Whistler
Pachycephala pectoralis.
This record, made on Kolombangara, Solomon Islands, is a
sample from Listening Earth. (Scroll down).