Library / Intermediate Groups West / Robin-like
This is an intermediate-level comparison group of robin-like bird songs and sounds from Land Birds of North America, Western region.
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Song
Extended songs in caroling rhythm with short sets of separate phrases broken by distinct pauses; each set commonly ends in a higher, more trilled phrase. Tanager, grosbeak, and vireo songs usually shorter. Cheer-up, cheerily, cheer-up, cheerily, cheer-up, cheer-up, cheerily.
Song
Slower, burrier, and usually much shorter than American Robin; often mixed with distinctive bud-a-beep call.
Song
Much slower, burrier, and less varied than American Robin; most phrases with two or three syllables.
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