Discussion»Questions»Animals (Wild)» Excluding those of you who are experts in these fields of knowledge, can you distinguish a species of bird just by its call?
- if she yells, "don't touch me, you pervert" and starts kicking at you, she's a nutcracker. - If she snickers an says, "you call that big?" she's a mockingbird. - If she tells you all about her other "encounters", she's a crow. - If, she says, "that will be another $500", she's a robin.
This here's a family site so I can't tell you what the call of a swallow is.
I can tell crows and mourning doves by their calls. Both are irritating as all get-out. I can also tell an owl from its call.
This post was edited by Spunky at July 4, 2025 7:21 AM MDT
Not so well at all can I distinguish, but I just listen and enjoy the variety of sounds and voices of all the birds.
And I can distinguish my favorite birds - - crows. I admire what I'd call their sense of self-assuredness. And I find them beautiful.
I'll sing -- "Let's hear it for the Crow." ;)
I'm rambling off-topic but crows happen to be in what I'd call "The Best Single Scene in any Movie" in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" - - they and 'Melanie Daniels' as Melanie sits on a bench by a school playground while school children are heard singing in the school.