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Audio files of bird calls are useful for identification and this is a fairly long recording of the song. Common species in North America, but exotic to the rest of the world. Recorded Sandbanks Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada -- 2007 May by Mdf. Nominate and support. - Durova Charge! 08:14, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
American popular songs featuring this bird include "When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along)", written by Harry M. Woods. [52] Although the comic book superhero Robin was inspired by an N. C. Wyeth illustration of Robin Hood, [53] [54] a later version had his mother nicknaming him Robin because he was born on the first day of ...
The red-capped robin-chat is a bird that lives in the undergrowth of evergreen forest, this includes coastal forests, riverine forests, sand forests and highland forests below the cloud forest level. During the summer it expands its range to include well vegetated gullies and tickets within drier habitats such as bushveld and thornveld .
Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs. In non-technical use, bird songs are the bird sounds that are melodious to the human ear. In ornithology and birding , songs (relatively complex vocalizations) are distinguished by function from calls (relatively simple vocalizations).
xeno-canto is a citizen science project and repository in which volunteers record, upload and annotate recordings of bird calls and sounds of orthoptera and bats. [2] Since it began in 2005, it has collected over 575,000 sound recordings from more than 10,000 species worldwide, and has become one of the biggest collections of bird sounds in the world. [1]
The white-browed robin-chat's contact calls include repeated pit-porlee, chiiritter-porlii and da-da-tee and end with da-teee or chickle-ter-tweep. [4] The alarm call is takata-kata-kata . [ 2 ] The melodious song, usually given at dawn and dusk, is quiet at first and then becomes louder; it consists of pip-pip-uree , don't-you-do-it or ...
The lyrebird is an Australian species best known for its ability to mimic man-made sounds. National Geographic has recorded these remarkable birds mimicking such unnatural noises as a chainsaw and ...
Trisyllabic guttural calls when arriving at a roost at dusk. The Cape robin-chat has a harsh, low, trisyllabic alarm call, which may be rendered as WA-dur-dra, WA-de-da [6] or TURR-da-da. [4] It has given rise to several local names, including "Jan frederik", which matches the rhythm of the call if the last syllables are run together.