Anybody know of a website for listening to bird calls?

[cwydro]

Not sure I even made a coherent OP there, but I live on a huge property. I hear so many birds off in the woods, and I really would like to identify them. I would like to identify them by their sounds.

I have my binoculars of course, but there are 26 acres of trees...I just can't find them all.

I know we have a Whippoorwill (or several), several owls I want to identify, woodpeckers, cardinals, chickadees, wrens, and bluebirds.

[eShirl]

1. here's one

Comprehensive audio guide to the songs and calls of over 550 North American birds.
http://www.enature.com/birding/audio.asp

[cwydro]

3. Oh, very cool!

Thank you!

[cpwm17]

2. Here's another site that has numerous bird vocalizations from around the world

The US is covered well: http://www.xeno-canto.org/

Here's Northern Cardinal: http://www.xeno-canto.org/species/Cardinalis-cardinalis

If you look on the right on this page you will see a link for more Northern Cardinal vocalizations at Macaulay Library:

http://macaulaylibrary.org/browse/taxa/Cardinalis-cardinalis

[cwydro]

4. Thanks so much!

I'll check back in when I find out who's flying around out here lol!

[csziggy]

5. Cornell's All About Birds site has a lot of bird calls

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/

[cwydro]

6. Thanks! I'm in bird call heaven now.

Now if I can just spot them!

[MH1]

7. You can also study with Petersen's Birding By Ear

My brother got me the CD set some years ago. When I studied it and paid attention, it helped.

Amazon link for the Eastern/Central version:

http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=birding+by+ear+eastern&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=31433773485&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17086189062211880596&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_4zra77sojg_b

There's a western US version as well.

Have fun!

[XemaSab]

8. This is what you want:

http://www.larkwire.com/

It's a game.

It's fun.

You can customize it to play the songs you want to learn, so if there are no Black-capped Chickadees or Greater Prairie-Chickens within 500 miles, you don't need to learn those.

And if you don't know what's around, go to

http://ebird.org/

Click on "Explore Data," click on "Bar Charts," and find your county.