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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."

Index by Scientific Name. Corrected Errors

Links to other		bird-song sites.

World's best singers World's otherwise most remarkable Songs in slow motion Bird songs in musical notation

Songs of the Stony Brook Campus

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August 2014: all sound records are now in mp3 format.

(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
Buteonidae, Pandionidae,
Accipitridae

(hear an owl)

Owls
Tytoniidae, Strigidae
(hear a whip-poor-will)

Goatsuckers
Caprimulgidae
(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
Hirundinidae, Micropodidae

(hear a jay)

Crows and Jays
Corvidae
(hear a finch)

Finches
Fringillidae

(hear a sparrow)

Sparrows
Fringillidae
chatter

Hummingbird
Trochilidae

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 at math.stonybrook.edu
December 1, 2019.

Gulls and Terns Laridae	Other Shorebirds Ardeidae, Charadriidae, Scolopacidae	Geese and Ducks Anatidae
Loons Gaviidae	Doves Columbidae	Raptors Buteonidae, Pandionidae, Accipitridae
Owls Tytoniidae, Strigidae	Goatsuckers Caprimulgidae	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 Hirundinidae, Micropodidae	Crows and Jays Corvidae	Finches Fringillidae
Sparrows Fringillidae		Hummingbird Trochilidae