Library / Advanced Groups West / Robin-like
This is an advanced-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
More pure-toned and continuous than American Robin; higher, less choppy than Black-headed Grosbeak.
Song
More pure-toned and continuous than American Robin; lower, choppier than Rose-breasted Grosbeak.
Song
Slower, burrier, and usually much shorter than American Robin; simpler, burrier, and choppier than Summer Tanager; often mixed with distinctive bud-a-beep call.
Song
Burrier and more continuous than American Robin; sweeter, more complex, and more continuous than Western Tanager.
Song
Higher, less varied than American Robin with longer breaks between phrases. Here-I-am, way-up-here, high-in-the-tree, can-you-see-me?
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