June 2006
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BIRD SONGS

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
Sturnus vulgaris) accurately recognize acoustic patterns defined by a recursive, self-embedding, context-free grammar." See Timothy Q. Gentner et al., Recursive syntactic pattern learning by songbirds, Nature 440 1204-1207 (27 April 2006).
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Samples are 8 kHz .au files unless otherwise described.
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Songs of the Stony Brook Campus

(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 22kHz
Buteonidae, Pandionidae

(hear an owl)
+ Owls
Tytoniidae, Strigidae

(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 22kHz
Hirundinidae, Micropodidae

(hear a jay)
Crows and Jays
Corvidae

(hear a finch)
+ Finches
Fringillidae

(hear a sparrow)
+ Sparrows 22kHz
Fringillidae

(hear a hummingbird fly)
+ Humm-
ingbird
Trochi-
lidae


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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July 2000/October 2003
Tony Phillips
Math Dept SUNY Stony Brook
tony@math.sunysb.edu
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