A Song for August 01

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This Fish Crow's singing is a tad unusual. Usually the Fish Crows sings with the vocalization Pieplow calls uh-oh. That's a pretty good transliteration, I think. His sonogram shows the two sounds as undivided. The second and third sounds of the first song above can be taken as an uh-oh. The two sounds of equal magnitude are caws. This bird is singing with caw doublets. Only the first and last renditions have the litte sound at the end that also makes them uh-ohs. This bird was chased away by a Northern Mockingbird. You can hear its complaints after the third and fourth songs.

Below is another corvid species recorded on 8/1/18. I think this is two young of the year with a parent, the lower calls coming from the adult and the higher ones from the juveniles.


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INVALUABLE RESOURCES
Nathan D. Pieplow. 2017. Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Nathan D. Pieplow. 2019. Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Western North America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Donald Kroodsma. 2005. The Singing Life of Birds. Houghton Mifflin.