Songs and calls of some New York State birds

Raptors

Broad-winged Hawk 38kB.
Broad-winged Hawk 32kB.
Buteo platypterus
A high, sharp, keen, penetrating whistle. (Chapman)
Limekiln Lake, August 1997.

Red-tailed Hawk 42kB.
Red-tailed Hawk 47kB.
Buteo jamaicensis
An asthmatic squeal, keeer-r-r (slurring downward). (Peterson)
Long Island, April 1998.
Red-tailed Hawk (mobbed by crows) 98 kB.
Crows mobbing a pair of Red-tailed Hawks 342 kB. (I edited out 6'' of my footsteps in the snow)
Long Island, January 2001.

Red-shouldered Hawk 237kB.
Buteo lineatus
A loud screaming kee-yer, kee-yer (Chapman)
Woodbridge, Connecticut, April 2002.

Osprey 63kB.
Osprey 179kB.
Pandion haliaetus
Damariscotta Falls, Maine, April 1998.

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