This YouTube video was produced by The Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
As we emerge from winter, birds are already on their way back. Often the first hint they’re back is a new song mixing into the sounds of your backyard. We sat down with Cornell Lab experts to preview some of these songs, how to recognize them, and took a look at the singers behind the songs. Which species are you looking forward to celebrating spring with?
Learn more about bird songs and calls: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/how-to-learn-bird-songs-and-calls/
All sounds and images were from the Macaulay Library https://macaulaylibrary.org
Boulder, CO Image and Soundscape/Charles Hundertmark
Red-winged Blackbird/Daniel Jauvin
American Robin/Matthew D. Medler
Carolina Wren/Daniel Jauvin
Song Sparrow/Daniel Jauvin
Red-breasted Sapsucker/Jen Sanford
Hermit Thrush/Peter Hawrylyshyn
Black-capped Chickadee spectrogram/
Black-capped Chickadee/Timothy Barksdale
Northern Yellow Warbler/Daniel Jauvin
Bird and Moon Comic/Rosemary Mosco
Eastern Towhee/Luke Seitz
Brown-headed Nuthatch vocalization/Milton Hobbs
Brown-headed Nuthatch/Seth Honig
Cedar Waxwing/Zachary Vaughan
Townsend’s Solitaire/Arthur Mercado
Rose-breasted Grosbeak/Luke Seitz
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a membership institution dedicated to interpreting and conserving the earth’s biological diversity through research, education, and citizen science focused on birds.
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