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Animal Vocalizations Flashcards

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Canada Goose

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Greater White-fronted Goose

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Mallard

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Gadwall

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Green-winged Teal

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American Wigeon

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California Quail

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Great Blue Heron

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Great Egret

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Snowy Egret

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Black-crowned Night-heron

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Osprey

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Northern Harrier

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Red-shouldered Hawk

high, clear, screaming keeyuur keeyuur, repeated steadily

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Red-tailed Hawk

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Virginia Rail

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American Coot

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Black-bellied Plover

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Semipalmated Plover

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Killdeer

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Black-necked Stilt

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Willet

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Greater Yellowlegs

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Whimbrel

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Long-billed Curlew

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Marbled Godwit

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Least Sandpiper

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Long-billed Dowitcher

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Short-billed Dowitcher

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Red-necked Phalarope

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Ring-billed Gull

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California Gull

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Western Gull

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Elegant Tern

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Caspian Tern

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Forster’s Tern

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Band-tailed Pigeon

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Mourning Dove

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Great Horned Owl

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Common Poorwill

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White-throated Swift

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Anna’s Hummingbird

scratchy, thin, and dry sturee sturee sturee, scrrrr, zveeee, street street

explosive buzz/squeak tewk

very high, sharp stit

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Allen’s Hummingbird

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Rufous Hummingbird

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Belted Kingfisher

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Lewis’s Woodpecker

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Acorn Woodpecker

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Red-breasted Sapsucker

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Nuttall’s Woodpecker

sharp, rising two- or three-note pitik (occasionally a single-note pik)

level and steady pitikikik

drum steady, medium speed, relatively long

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Hairy Woodpecker

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Downy Woodpecker

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Northern Flicker

high, piercing, clear keew

long, strong, relatively low-pitched series kwikwikwikwi… continued steadily for up to 15 seconds

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Olive-sided Flycatcher

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Western Wood-peewee

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Pacific-slope Flycatcher

three phrases repeated in sequence: a high, sharp tsip; a thin, high, slurred klseewii; and an explosive ptik

very high, thin, slurred whistle; tseeweep or tsweep

very high, short tseet

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Black Phoebe

two high, thin whistled phrases usually alternated sisee, sitsew, sisee, sitsew…

high, thin whistled tseew

simple, high, clear chip

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Ash-throated Flycatcher

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Hutton’s Vireo

simple whistled phrases repeated every 1-2 seconds, each phrase repeated many times before switching to another phrase trrweer, trrweer, trrweer,… tsuwiif, tsuwiif

nasal, rising reeee dee de

high, harsh mewing and a dry pik

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Warbling Vireo

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Loggerhead Shrike

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Steller’s Jay

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American Crow

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Common Raven

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Tree Swallow

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Violet-green Swallow

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Barn Swallow

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Cliff Swallow

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Oak Titmouse

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Chestnut-backed Chickadee

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Red-breasted Nuthatch

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White-breasted Nuthatch

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Pygmy Nuthatch

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Brown Creeper

very high, quavering sreee, always single, with relaxed, liquid quality

cascading series of very high, thin notes; usually ends on a high note seee sitsweeda sowit-see (“trees trees pretty little trees”)

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House Wren

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Pacific Wren

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Bewick’s Wren

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Marsh Wren

a few chattering or whining notes followed by a complex mechanical, rattling trill on one pitch

low, dry tek

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Golden-crowned Kinglet

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Ruby-crowned Kinglet

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Wrentit

series of clear, popping whistles pwip pwip pwip pwip pwip (slow, regular, short series) or pwid pwid pwidwidrdrdrdrdr (accelerating)

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Western Bluebird

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Hermit Thrush

ethereal, fluting, without clear rising or falling trend; begins with a long whistle followed by two or three higher twirling phrases fading at end

low, soft, dry chup

clear, plaintive whistle pee

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Swainson’s Thrush

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American Robin

series of low, whistled phrases, given in slow steady tempo, with liquid quality typical of thrushes (cheer-up, cheerily, cheer-up, cheerily)

low, mellow pup or a sharp, clucking piik

very high, thin tseeew or shorter seew

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Varied Thrush

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Northern Mockingbird

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California Thrasher

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Phainopepla

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European Starling

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American Pipit

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Cedar Waxwing

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Orange-crowned Warbler

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Yellow-rumped Warbler

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Townsend’s Warbler

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Black-throated Gray Warbler

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Common Yellowthroat

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Wilson’s Warbler

rapid series of 10-15 short, sharp, whistled notes chchchchchchchch with chattery quality; last few notes usually lower and faster

husky, sharp jimp

clear, abrupt tilk

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Spotted Towhee

simple buzzy trill che zheeeee or chzchzchzchzchz

harsh, rising, growling zhreeee

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California Towhee

accelerating series of high, flat teek notes, sometimes with lower notes near end: teek teek teek eek eekeekeekeek t-t-t-t-teek

high, hard, flat teek

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Lark Sparrow

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Savannah Sparrow

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Lincoln’s Sparrow

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Song Sparrow

variable series of trills and clear notes with slightly husky quality and pleasant gentle rhythm; begins with several short, sharp notes, usually one long trill in middle of song (Madge-Madge-Madge, put-on-your-tea-kettle-ettle-ettle)

distinctive, husky jimp

high, thin, level seeet

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Grasshopper Sparrow

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Fox Sparrow

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White-crowned Sparrow

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Dark-eyed Junco

short trill

sharp buzzy tzeet; also high, tinkling chips when flushed taititit tit

series of high, clear keew notes

very high, hard, smacking stip

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Western Tanager

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Black-headed Grosbeak

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Lazuli Bunting

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Western Meadowlark

rich, low, descending warble sleep loo lidi lidijuvi; begins with well-spaced, clear, short whistles and ends with rapid gurgle

low, bell-like pluk

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Red-winged Blackbird

several liquid introductory notes followed by variable, harsh, gurgling trill kon-ka-reeeee; explosive, harsh rattle

low, dry chek

high, clear, descending teeeew

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Brewer’s Blackbird

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Brown-headed Cowbird

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Bullock’s Oriole

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Purple Finch

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House Finch

varied warble; generally begins with husky, whistled notes and ends with slightly lower, burry notes; steady tempo with distinct downward trend

soft, husky vweet, rising

soft, mellow fillp

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American Goldfinch

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Lesser Goldfinch

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Pine Siskin

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House Sparrow

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Pseudacris regilla

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Canis latrans

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Sciurus griseus

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Otospermophilus beecheyi

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Clapper Rail

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Eurasian Collared-Dove

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Golden-crowned Sparrow

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Horned Lark

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Sandhill Crane

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Tricolored Blackbird

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Western Scrub-jay

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Yellow-billed Magpie

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