Songs and calls of some New York State birds

Tyrant Flycatchers

Kingbird 34kB
Tyrannus tyrannus
Two Kingbirds 95kB
Long Island, August 1997.

Great Crested Flycatcher 71kB
Myiarchus crinitus
``Loud, chuckling, grating whistles." (Chapman)
Blue Mountain Lake, May 1996.
Great Crested Flycatcher 90kB
Ithaca, May 1999.
An introspective moment 108kB MP3 file
Long Island, April 2004
Great crested flycatcher (Carolina wren in background) 124kB MP3 file
Long Island, May 2004

Eastern Phoebe 57kB
Sayornis phoebe
Ithaca, May 1999.

Eastern (``Wood'') Peewee 152kB
Conoptus virens
(This long record contains Question 29kB and
Answer 25kB separated by 5s. of silence.)
Long Island, June 1996.
``Pee-a-wee, peer and pee; all plaintive and musical'' Chapman
``What a sweetly modulated, plaintive-sounding whistle!" Torrey 1901, p.214.

Mystery Flycatcher 22kB (every 5-8 secs.)
Blue Mountain Lake, May 1996.

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