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Avian Voices
by Andy "soundeziner" Martin
I like birds. What can I say?All birds were recorded by me in the United States' beautiful Pacific Northwest state of Washington.
Episodes
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Gray Catbird Dumatella carolensis
Gray Catbird, Dumetella carolinensis, brief developing song string, clean processed from original parabolic recording followed by the original source family: Mimidae -- Mockingbirds and Thrashers Gray Catbirds are most easily recognizable from their characteristic "mew" like a loud cat, but males...
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Scaly-breasted Wren, Microcerculus marginatus
Scaly-breasted Wren, Microcerculus marginatus, née Southern Nightingale-wren, more likely heard than seen, this tiny bird spends its time on the floors of humid rainforests, hopping quietly, but singing brightly. Its loud, cheerful song consists of bright, clear, pure tones with seemingly random...
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Wood Duck, Female Advertisement Calls (AMNS730521)
A short representative sample of Wood Duck recordings. Wood Ducks, Aix sponsa, are common ducks of swamps, marshes, and other riparian habitats in North America. Being the only duck to nest in tree cavities, they depends on the holes drilled by Pileated Woodpeckers, linking the survival of the...
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Wood Duck, Male Squeals (AMNS126680)
A short representative sample of Wood Duck recordings. Wood Ducks, Aix sponsa, are common ducks of swamps, marshes, and other riparian habitats in North America. Being the only duck to nest in tree cavities, they depends on the holes drilled by Pileated Woodpeckers, linking the survival of the...
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Wood Duck, Female Contact Calls 01 (AMNS163145)
A short representative sample of Wood Duck recordings. Wood Ducks, Aix sponsa, are common ducks of swamps, marshes, and other riparian habitats in North America. Being the only duck to nest in tree cavities, they depends on the holes drilled by Pileated Woodpeckers, linking the survival of the...
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Wood Duck, Female Flight Calls (AMNS387156)
A short representative sample of Wood Duck recordings. Wood Ducks, Aix sponsa, are common ducks of swamps, marshes, and other riparian habitats in North America. Being the only duck to nest in tree cavities, they depends on the holes drilled by Pileated Woodpeckers, linking the survival of the...
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Spotted Towhee 01
Spotted Towhee 01 by Andy "soundeziner" Martin
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Common Nighthawk Courtship Display
Common Nighthawks, Chordeiles minor, circle around in long, swirling loops when courting mates. They call repeatedly with a nasal "peent", interrupted occasionally by a short dive, tucking their wings in to create a spectacular "boom" as the air rushes through their feathers. Being a largely...
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Veery
Veery, Catharus Fuscescens Another LBB Thrush: Little Brown Bird Like the Swainson's Thrush, Hermit Thrush, and Wood Thrush, a Veery's drab brown appearance in no way prepares you for the traditional Thrushy flutiness of its song. A down-turned, slightly depressed song in comparison to the raw...
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Red-eyed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo, Vireo olivaceus A common breeding songbird in the woodlands of eastern North America, but found throughout the Pacific Northwest. This delightful little friend was recorded on Summer Solstice, 2024, in Sinlahekin Valley in the Okanogan high country of Washington State in the...
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Lazuli Bunting on Summer Solstice
Appropriately named after the brilliant gemstone Lapis Lazuli, the Lazuli Bunting is a persistent singer throughout it's range during breeding season. Each male has its own distinct song, usually "crystalized" around two years of age. During their first hatching season, young males may babble...
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Lazuli Bunting on Summer Solstice
Appropriately named after the brilliant gemstone Lapis Lazuli, the Lazuli Bunting is a persistent singer throughout it's range during breeding season. Each male has its own distinct song, usually "crystalized" around two years of age. During their first hatching season, young males may babble...
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Canyon Wren, Catherpes mexicanus
Canyon Wren, Catherpes mexicanus, 3 performed songs, singing from top of cliff, parabolic single-species recording, timing condensed, but natural pace, rhythm, and dynamics maintained, clean processed for clarity, family: Wrens
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Common Chlorospingus 01
Common Chlorospingus, Chlorospingus flavopectus Family Passerellidae Common Chlorospingus is a chatty bird heard through the cloud forests of Middle America Excerpt from a long soundscape recording from San Gerardo Biological Station in Provincia Guanacaste, Costa Rica, on the morning of…
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Black-faced Solitaire, Myadestes melanops 02
Black-faced Solitaire, Myadestes melanops - song (background: Common Chlorospingus) Family: Turdidae The tonal, metallic voice of the Black-faced Solitaire is heard in dense montane habitats at higher elevations of Costa Rica Excerpt from a long soundscape recording from San Gerardo Biological...
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Black Hawk-eagle, Spizaetus tyrannus
Black Hawk-Eagle, Spizaetus tyrannus, calling from a nearby perch early in the morning of 2023-12-04 Family: Accipitridae The Black Hawk-Eagle is a frequent soarer in the skies of Neotropical American forests Excerpt from a long soundscape recording from San Gerardo Biological Station in…
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Song Wren 01
Song Wren, Cyphorhinus phaeocephalus Family Troglodytidae The mechanical, clunky song of the Song Wren, an inhabitant of lowland tropical rainforests of Middle America that is often seen foraging at higher elevations. Excerpt from a long soundscape recording from San Gerardo Biological Station in...
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ScaleCrested PygmyTyrant 02
Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant, Lophotriccus pileatus Family: Tyrannidae The piecing-voiced Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant ranges in high mountain forests throughout Middle America. Excerpt from a long soundscape recording from San Gerardo Biological Station in Provincia Guanacaste, Costa Rica, on the...
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Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant 01
Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant, Lophotriccus pileatus Family: Tyrannidae The piecing-voiced Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant ranges in high mountain forests throughout Middle America. Excerpt from a long soundscape recording from San Gerardo Biological Station in Provincia Guanacaste, Costa Rica, on the...
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Ochraceous Wren song 02
Ochraceous Wren, Troglodytes ochraceus Family: Troglodytidae Endemic to Costa Rica and Panama, Ochraceous Wrens are often found foraging or singing from mossy trunks and branches Excerpt from a long soundscape recording from San Gerardo Biological Station in Provincia Guanacaste, Costa Rica, on…
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Lineated Foliage-gleaner duet
Lineated Foliage-gleaner, Syndactyla subalaris Duet Lineated Foliage-gleaners are more likely heard than seen in the dense undergrowth of higher elevation cloud forests of Costa Rica. Family Furnariidae Excerpt from a long soundscape recording from San Gerardo Biological Station in Provincia...
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Common Chlorospingus 03
Common Chlorospingus, Chlorospingus flavopectus Family Passerellidae Common Chlorospingus is a chatty bird heard through the cloud forests of Middle America Excerpt from a long soundscape recording from San Gerardo Biological Station in Provincia Guanacaste, Costa Rica, on the morning of…
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Common Chlorospingus 02
Common Chlorospingus, Chlorospingus flavopectus Family Passerellidae Common Chlorospingus is a chatty bird heard through the cloud forests of Middle America Excerpt from a long soundscape recording from San Gerardo Biological Station in Provincia Guanacaste, Costa Rica, on the morning of…
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Black-faced Solitaire, Myadestes melanops 01
Black-faced Solitaire, Myadestes melanops - song (background: Common Chlorospingus) Family: Turdidae The tonal, metallic voice of the Black-faced Solitaire is heard in dense montane habitats at higher elevations of Costa Rica. Excerpt from a long soundscape recording from San Gerardo Biological...
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Spectacled Owl, Pulsatrix perspicillata
Spectacled Owl, Pulsatrix perspicillata calling from a nearby perch in the pre-Dawn Astronomical Twilight of 2023-12-04 Family: Strigidae The softly pulsating song of the Spectacled Owl is a common voice in the nighttime chorus of Neotropical forests throughout Middle America Excerpt from a long...
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Common Poorwill
Common Poorwill, Phalaenoptilus nuttallii, a shy nocturnal singer. I've only heard them from a distance, but every time I manage to get a little bit closer. I'm just so sleepy when they're out....
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Gray Catbird, Dumetella carolinensis, Looonnng Song Performance
Gray Catbird, Dumetella carolinensis, one long developing song string, clean processed from original parabolic recording family: Mockingbirds and Thrashers Gray Catbirds are most easily recognizable from their characteristic "mew" like a loud cat, but males are also well known for long…
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Sage Thrasher, Oreoscoptes montanu, Long Song
Sage Thrasher, Oreoscoptes montanus, four short song strings of repeated motifs, short whistles, glides, mimicry, buzzes and more Like other members of family Mimidae, Brown Thrashers are skilled mimics and song creators with an extremely varied repertoire of more than 1,100 phrases consisting of...
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Sage Thrasher, Oreoscoptes montanu, Short Songs
Sage Thrasher, Oreoscoptes montanus, one long developing song string of repeated motifs, short whistles, glides, mimicry, buzzes and more family: Mockingbirds and Thrashers image credit: "763 - SAGE THRASHER (3-30-07) carrizo plain, slo co, ca (2)" by Sloalan is marked with CC0 1.0. To view the...
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Western Meadowlark, Sturnella neglecta
Western Meadowlark, Sturnella neglecta, song, contact calls, and flush, isolated and processed from original, natural pace and rhythm maintained, family: Troupials and Allies For an example of a male's "roll" call, listen here: https://soundcloud.com/soundeziner/western-meadowlark-1 Recorded in…
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Spotted Towhee, Pipilo maculatus
Spotted Towhee, Pipilo maculatus, parabolic recording, clean-processed for clarity, natural pace and rhythym maintained, family: New World Sparrows Recorded in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, Washington, United States image credit: "860 - SPOTTED TOWHEE (4-4-10) canet road, morro bay, sloc co…
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Chipping Sparrow, Spizella passerina
Chipping Sparrow, Spizella passerina, trilling song, single species parabolic recording, single bird performance, natural pace, rhythm, & dynamics maintained, clean processed for clarity, family: New World Sparrows, common voice of intermixed tree-grass open spaces Recorded in the beautiful…
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Dark-eyed Junco, Junco hyemalis, collected song variations
Dark-eyed Junco, Junco hyemalis, collected song variations, trills, isolated Recorded in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, Washington, United States image credit: "JUNCO, DARK-EYED (9-4-07) -1" by Sloalan is marked with CC0 1.0
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Savannah Sparrow, Passerculus sandwichensis, collected songs
Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis, collected song variants, isolated and processed from originals These little birds always seem so lonely, perching on a lone field shrub and calling out into the distance over and over and over and over. And over. And over. Recorded in the beautiful...
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Song Sparrow, Melospiza melodia 01
Song Sparrow, Melospiza melodia, Song, parabolic recording, clean-processed for clarity, natural pace and rhythym maintained, family: New World Sparrows Recorded in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, Washington, United States image credit: "892 - SONG SPARROW (9-06) attu, ak (6)" by Sloalan is…
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White-crowned Sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys, Immature
White-crowned Sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys, Songs and Calls, probably an immature bird learning the song or experimenting with variation, parabolic recording, clean-processed for clarity, natural pace and rhthym maintained, family: New World Sparrows Recorded in the beautiful Pacific…
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White-crowned Sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys
White-crowned Sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys, long performance with repeated song, parabolic recording, clean-processed for clarity, natural pace, rhthym, and dynamics maintained, family: New World Sparrows Recorded in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, Washington, United States image credit: "897…
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Common Raven, Corvus corax, mechanicals collection
Common Raven, Corvus corax, collection of non-vocal "mechanical" or primarily non-vocal sounds, clicking tongues, bill snaps, whistling, etc, isolated Recorded in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, Washington, United States image credit: "653 - COMMON RAVEN ca" by Sloalan is marked with CC0 1.0
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American Robin, Turdus migratorius, morning song
American Robin, Turdus migratorius, morning song, very long sequence, parabolic recording, processed clean for clarity, natural pacing and rhythm maintained, family Thrushes and Allies, order Passeriformes Recorded in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, Washington, United States image credit: "756 -...
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Hermit Thrush, Catharus guttatus
Hermit Thrush, Catharus guttatus, individual performance, song sequence with an end block of example 8 basic phonemes and variants, isolated from original, natural pace and rhythm maintained Recorded in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, Washington, United States image credit: "745 - HERMIT THRUSH...
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Varied Thrush, Ixoreus naevius, Immature?
Birds, Songbird, Thrushes and Allies, Varied Thrush, Ixoreus naevius, song, odd, like warming-up practice, perhaps juvenile, parabolic single-species recording, processed for clarity, natural pace and rhthym maintained Recorded in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, Washington, United States image...
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Varied Thrush, Ixoreus naevius, clean
Birds, Songbird, Thrush and Allies, Varied Thrush, Ixoreus naevius, song, parabolic single-species recording, processed for clarity, natural pace and rhthym maintained Recorded in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, Washington, United States image credit: Andy Martin, me
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Swainson's Thrush, Catharus ustulatus
Swainson's Thrush, Catharus ustulatus, Thrushes and Allies, long take of a single male Swainson's Thrush singing, natural pace and rhythm maintained, cleanly processed from parabolic recording Recorded in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, Washington, United States image credit: "744 - SWAINSON'S...
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Steller's Jay, Cyanocitta stelleri
Birds, Crow, Corvids, Steller's Jay, Cyanocitta stelleri, calls, parabolic single-species recording, processed for clarity, natural pace and rhthym maintained Recorded in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, Washington, United States image credit: "638 - STELLER'S JAY (6-13-2014) del norte co, ca…
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Rock Wren, Salpinctes obsoletus
Rock Wren, Salpinctes obsoletus, long song sequence, isolated from Double mid-side original, natural pace and rhythm maintained Recorded in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, Washington, United States image credit: "690 - ROCK WREN (11-8-11) 78 circulo montana, patagonia lake ranch estates, scc, az…
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Golden-crowned Kinglet, Regulus satrapa
If you've ever been in a Northern forest and thought you heard some tiny creature maniacally laughing at you, chances are it was the Golden-crowned Kinglet, Regulus satrapa. A hardy yet tiny bird, the Golden-crown Kinglet is found throughout the boreal forest of North America. I happened to…
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Regulus calendula
A tiny little bird with an outsized voice, the Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Regulus calendula, is a bird of the Northern forests. Fearless defenders of their nests, males have been known to chase away Canada Jay mobs raiding for egg meals. The bird in this recording was putting on a continual arial...
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Willow Flycatcher, Empidonax traillii
The Willow Flycatcher, Empidonax traillii, looks as most Tyrant Flycatchers do: challenging, daring you to identify it. The Tyrant Flycatchers all bear a striking resemblance to one another, with some species being almost impossible to discern until they open their beaks to sing. Their buzzy,...
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Willow Flycatcher, Empidonax traillii, audio cleaning
I don't often share the process I go through in prepping bird recordings for licensing and presentation, so I thought I'd share an A-B demonstration. In rapid-fire succession here are a number of Willow Flycatcher song clips, each immediately followed by the original. The Willow Flycatcher,...
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Brewer's Sparrow, Spizella breweri, Performance
Brewer's Sparrow, Spizella breweri, is a highly abundant Sagebrush steppe bird of North America, yet it's more likely heard than seen. Tiny and well-matched for hiding the bunches it calls home, they are just as comfortable clambering through Sagebrush like rodents as they are fluttering from one...
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I like birds. What can I say?All birds were recorded by me in the United States' beautiful Pacific Northwest state of Washington.
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Andy "soundeziner" Martin
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