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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)
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 .
Calls: 'scold' call at beginning & 'alarm' call at 42 s (very end) An adult while making an alarm call. The male, as with many thrushes, has a complex and almost continuous song. It is commonly described as a cheery carol, made up of discrete units, often repeated, and spliced together into a string with brief pauses in between. [23]
Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication. The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns , and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic .
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.
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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 ...
A European robin singing at dawn. The dawn chorus is the outbreak of birdsong at the start of a new day. In temperate countries this is most noticeable in spring when the birds are either defending a breeding territory, trying to attract a mate or calling in the flock. In a given location it is common for different species to do their dawn ...