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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Index by Scientific Name. Corrected Errors

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Songs of the Stony Brook Campus

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Gulls and Terns
Laridae


Other Shorebirds
Ardeidae, Charadriidae,
Scolopacidae


Geese and Ducks
Anatidae


Loons
Gaviidae


Doves
Columbidae


Raptors 22kHz
Buteonidae, Pandionidae


Owls
Tytoniidae, Strigidae


Kingfishers
Alcedinidae


Quails, Partridges, etc.
Phasianidae


Cuckoos
Cuculidae


Woodpeckers
Piciidae


Flycatchers 22kHz
Tyrannidae


Titmice and Nuthatches
Paridae


Wrens
Troglodytidae


Mimic Thrushes
Mimidae


Thrushes
Turdidae


Vireos 22kHz
Vireonidae


Warblers 22kHz
Parulidae


Orioles and Blackbirds
Icteridae


Tanagers
Thraupidae


Swallows and Swifts 22kHz
Hirundinidae, Micropodidae


Crows and Jays
Corvidae


Finches
Fringillidae


Sparrows 22kHz
Fringillidae


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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Tony Phillips
Math Dept SUNY Stony Brook
tony@math.sunysb.edu
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