Phonetic Calls And Songs
(from Birding by Ear by Walton and Lawson, and various field guides)
Are you awake? me too--Great Horned Owl
A-weet, a-weet, a-weet-teo--Hooded Warbler
Bee-buzz--Blue-winged Warbler
Bee-buzz-buzz or Bee-buzz-buzz-buzz--Golden-winged Warbler
Beeer--Common Nighthawk
Bob white, bob white--Northern Bobwhite
Bubble, bubble, zee--Brown-headed Cowbird
Caw, caw, caw--American Crow
Che-bek--Least Flycatcher
Cheerily, cheer-up, cheerily--American Robin
Chick-a-dee-dee-dee--Carolina Chickadee
Chink--Blue Grosbeak
Chip-burr--Scarlet Tanager
Chicki-tuki-tuck--Summer Tanager
Chick-per-a-weeo-chick or chick-per-a-weeo--White-eyed Vireo
Chup-chup TZEeeee---Seaside Sparrow
Clink--Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Chiva, chiva, chiva or Peter, peter, peter--Tufted Titmouse
Chuck-will`s-widow--Chuck-will`s-widow
Churr, churr, churr--Red-bellied Woodpecker
Chur-ry, chur-ry, chur-ry--Kentucky Warbler
Chur-wee or Cheer, cheerful charmer--Eastern Bluebird
Conquereee--Red-winged Blackbird
Cu-cu-cu--Black-billed Cuckoo
Drink-your-teeeee--Eastern Towhee
Dtzee, dtzee, dtzeet--Eastern Kingbird
Ee-o-lay--Wood Thrush
Fee-bee, or Fee-blee--Eastern Phoebe
Fee-bee fee-bay--Carolina Chickadee
Fee-bee-o--Alder Flycatcher
Fitz-bew--Willow Flycatcher
Here, here, here--Tufted Titmouse
Here I am, over here, see me, where are you--Red-eyed Vireo
Hip-hip-hurrah--King Rail
I am lazeee or beer beer beer beeee--Black-throated Blue Warbler
Jay, jay, jay--Blue Jay
Jeeee---Wood Duck
Ka ka ka...kowp kowp kowp--Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Keeeeeer--Red-tailed Hawk
Keeeeer--Common Tern and Forster`s Tern
Kerwee...kerwee--Sora
Kee-yer, kee-yer, kee-yer--Red-shouldered Hawk
Kid-ik, kid-ik, kid-ik--Virginia Rail
Kik, kik, kik--Pileated Woodpecker
Kill-dee, kill-dee, kill-dee--Killdeer
Kip...kip--Common Moorhen
Kleeyer--Northern Flicker
Who cooks for you, who cooks for you`all--Barred Owl
Maids, maids, maids, put on your tea, kettle, kettle, kettle--Song Sparrow
Meeoow--Gray Catbird
Poor Sam Peabody, Peabody, Peabody--White-throated Sparrow
Pee-a-wee or pee-ee--Eastern Wood-Pewee
Peeeeeeeeee--Broad-winged Hawk
Peent, peent, peent--American Woodcock
Peent--Common Nighthawk
Peet-suh--Acadian Flycatcher
Peet-weet--Spotted Sandpiper
Perchickaree or Babeee--American Goldfinch
Chicki-tuki-tuck--Summer Tanager
Please please pleased to meet`cha--Chestnut-sided Warbler
Plink, plink--Bobolink
Wheep, wheep--Great Crested Flycatcher
Purty, purty, purty--Northern Cardinal
Queedle, queedle, queedle---Blue Jay
Queer, queer--Red-headed Woodpecker
Quick, three beers--Olive-sided Flycatcher
See-bit see-bit see-bit, see-see-see-see--Nashville Warbler
See-see-see-sisi-see--Brown Creeper
Scaipe--Common Snipe
Skeeow--Green Heron
Speee speee--Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Spring of the year--Eastern Meadowlark
Sweet, sweet, sweet, I`m so sweet--Yellow Warbler
Teacher, teacher, teacher--Ovenbird
Tea-kettle, tea-kettle, tea-kettle--Carolina Wren
Tee-shaay--Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Tee-si, tee-si, tee-si--Bay-breasted Warbler
Three-a, three-a--Yellow-throated Vireo
Tic-tic, tic-tic-tic--Yellow Rail
Tika, tika, tika-swee, swee, swee-chay, chay, chay--Tennessee Warbler
Tow-weeee--Eastern Towhee
Trees, trees, murmuring trees--Black-throated Green Warbler
Tseer, tseer--Red-winged Blackbird
Tzee, tzee, tzee, tzeeo--American Redstart
Vee-a--Gray-cheeked Thrush
Veer--Veery
Weesa, weesa, weesa--Black-and-white Warbler
What-cheer, what-cheer, what-cheer, or cheer, cheer, cheer--Northern Cardinal
Wheer--Orchard Oriole
Weeta-weeta-weeteo--Magnolia Warbler
Weet-weet-weet-weet--Spotted Sandpiper
Wheer--Orchard Oriole
Whit, whit--Swainson`s Thrush
Whip-poor-will--Whip-poor-will
Wicka, wicka, wicka--Northern Flicker
Witchety, witchety, witchety--Common Yellowthroat
Yank, yank, yank--White-breasted Nuthatch
Zay, zay, zay, zoo, zee--Black-throated Green Warbler
Zeee, zeee--Cedar Waxwing
Zree--House Finch
Zeeeee-up--Northern Parula
Zweet-zweet-zweet--Prothonotary Warbler
More warbler mnemonics.
