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Excluding those of you who are experts in these fields of knowledge, can you distinguish a species of bird just by its call?

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Posted - February 6
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  • 10868
    Aye, guv'nor -

    - 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.
      February 6, 2025 9:18 AM MST
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  • 24103
    SO funny, ha!! Thanks, Shuhak, for the smiles.
      July 4, 2025 7:21 AM MDT
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  • 53812

     

      Matey, how is it that you’re familiar with so many of the types who make up parts of my Harem? Grrrrrr.
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      July 4, 2025 12:54 PM MDT
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  • 10868
    Uh... er.... uh ...  ... uh  ... lucky guess???
      July 5, 2025 8:31 AM MDT
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  • 11857
    Yes. Among them are crows, blue jays, house finches and cardinals. 
      February 6, 2025 9:38 AM MST
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  • 4669
    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
      February 6, 2025 10:19 AM MST
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  • 53812

      Thank you!
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      February 7, 2025 8:22 AM MST
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  • 44797
    Yes...numerous species.
      February 6, 2025 11:57 AM MST
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  • 53812

     

      Thank you!
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      February 7, 2025 8:21 AM MST
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  • 35472
    Duck
    Chicken 
    Owl
    Dove
    Turkey
    Crow
    Whip poor will

      February 10, 2025 10:58 AM MST
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  • 3740
    Only a few of those I see, and hear, most often: pigeons, gulls, crows, sparrows, blackbirds.

    (There is a pair of blackbirds nesting somewhere near my home, as I see them foraging in my garden).

    If it's melodic and very random, it might be a starling. 
     
    I think I could identify a raven's call, something between a crow's harsh call and a duck's quack.

    Crows have quite a vocabulary when they choose, sometimes sounding a bit like a barnyard hen when foraging. 
      June 15, 2025 3:36 PM MDT
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  • 24103


    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."  ;)

    What Do Crows Eat? - BirdWatching




    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.  



      July 4, 2025 7:20 AM MDT
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  • 17709
    I know how a woodpecker pecking sounds.
      July 5, 2025 4:24 PM MDT
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  • 53812

     

     Wait, Counselor, that’s not its call! Grrrr.
     (J/j.)
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      July 6, 2025 6:55 AM MDT
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  • 17709
      July 6, 2025 12:02 PM MDT
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