Library / Advanced Groups West / Warblers 1: Rolling or Choppy
This is an advanced-level comparison group of rolling or choppy warbler songs and sounds from Land Birds of North America, Western region.
Try the demo to listen to many more recordings and to play the games that will help you learn these songs.
Song
High and vibrant; usually changes pitch and speed at end; listen for crisp, ringing quality, lacking in Mourning.
Song
Typically lower, slower, less ringing than MacGillivray's; often drops at end: churry churry churry chory-chory.
Song
Usually weaker, more whistled (less trilled or vibrant) than MacGillivray's or Mourning; usually fades at end but some with stronger ending.
Song
Almost as explosive as Ovenbird, but only increases slightly in volume and tempo; loud, with choppy three- and four-syllable phrases. Beech-or-birch beech-or-birch beech-or-birch.
Song
Loud and choppy; accelerating tempo; descending pitch. Pete Pete Pete Pete lend-me-your-shoe.
Song
Loud, choppy, and explosive, increasing in volume; even tempo of two-syllable phrases: tea-cher tea-CHER tea-CHER TEA-CHER.
Song
High and clear with rising and falling rhythm: witch-a-tee witch-a-tee witch-a-tee.
Recordings copyright 2011-2012 Macaulay Library, all rights reserved. All photos (except as noted) copyright 2011-2012 Brian E. Small, all rights reserved. Yellow-rumped Warbler: Copyright Matthew Studebaker. Song texts copyright 2011-2012 Larkwire, LLC., all rights reserved.