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The tomtit is a small (13 cm, 11 g) bird with a large head and a short bill. The male North Island subspecies has black head, back, wings (with a white wing-bar), and a white belly. The subspecies from South Island, the Chatham Islands, and Auckland Islands are similar, but have a yellow band across the breast between the black head and white ...
Despite the wide distribution of this species there are only very small differences between different phenotypes. [7] Four subspecies are accepted, which differ slightly in the plumage pattern of breeding males: [5] [8] P. n. nivalis (Linnaeus, 1758) – Arctic Europe, Arctic North America. Head white, rump mostly black with a small area of white.
The black-faced bunting (Emberiza spodocephala) is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae. The genus name Emberiza is from Old German Embritz, a bunting. The specific spodocephala is from Ancient Greek spodos, "ashes", and kephalos, "headed". [2]
2. Use Mnemonics . To help remember which song goes with which bird, “Some people find it helpful to use mnemonics,” says Dr. Webster. “You can picture the song in your head, creating a ...
The use of spectrograms to visualize bird song was then adopted by Donald J. Borror [129] and developed further by others including W. H. Thorpe. [130] [131] These visual representations are also called sonograms or sonagrams. Beginning in 1983, some field guides for birds use sonograms to document the calls and songs of birds. [132]
Its plumage is almost wholly black and white, with very little difference between the sexes. [24] It has a black head, nape and throat, giving it the appearance of a black hood, which is bounded by a white neck collar, [25] which is around 3.2 cm (1.2 in) wide. The black hood is slightly glossy in bright light, can fade a little with age, [26 ...
Despite the similar names, this bird is not related to the Old World common blackbird, which is a thrush (Turdidae). The species' call sounds slightly more nasal than that of the red-wing's - a nasal kip and a sharp check. The male's song is a garbled on-ke-kaaangh. The bird migrates south during the colder seasons to Mexico and back to ...
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]