best singers

Songs and calls of some New York State birds

Candidates for World's Best Singer

These are my personal favorites.

Uirapuru or Organ Wren, Musician Wren Cyphorhinus arada 1274kB (Amazonia, Brazil). This song is on the page Songs of Brazilian Birds maintained by the Ministerio do Meio Ambiente, dos Recursos Hidricos e da Amazonia Legal in Brasilia.
Another recording 256kB is available from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology Library of Natural Sounds.

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 253kB. 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 801kB of the same singer. Nine phrases, all different, in 37 seconds.




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Tony Phillips
Math Dept SUNY Stony Brook
tony@math.sunysb.edu
December 14 1998