Birding By Ear

This episode of shorebirds features two sets of look alike birds. First Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, and then Short and Long-Billed Dowitchers. 

Feel free to email me at [email protected] or through Facebook at BirdingByEarPodcast. 

Other helpful links include:

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/

https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds/

https://xeno-canto.org/

Music is Called Good Thoughts by Diana Taylor from https://taketones.com/track/good-thoughts

This is a second episode in a series all about shorebirds. Today we talk about common shorebirds. First the Sandhill Crane, then American Avocet, then Black-Necked Stilts, the Spotted Sandpiper, and finally Solitary Sandpiper. 

Feel free to email me at [email protected] or through Facebook at BirdingByEarPodcast. 

Other helpful links include:

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/

https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds/

https://xeno-canto.org/

Music is Called Good Thoughts by Diana Taylor from https://taketones.com/track/good-thoughts

This is the first in a series of episodes all about shorebirds. We start off easy with just three birds that say their own name. Today we talk about Killdeer, Willet, and Long-billed Curlew. 

Feel free to email me at [email protected] or through Facebook at BirdingByEarPodcast. 

Other helpful links include:

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/

https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds/

https://xeno-canto.org/

Music is Called Good Thoughts by Diana Taylor from https://taketones.com/track/good-thoughts

I love hearing from you. Write me a review and I'll mail you a sticker with the logo for this podcast for free. You can reach me at [email protected] or on facebook at birdingbyearpodcast.facebook.com Next week will be the first new episode of 2026

Music is Called Good Thoughts by Diana Taylor from https://taketones.com/track/good-thoughts

Feel free to email me at [email protected] or through Facebook at BirdingByEarPodcast. 

Other helpful links include:

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/

https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds/

https://xeno-canto.org/

Music is Called Good Thoughts by Diana Taylor from https://taketones.com/track/good-thoughts

That's right today we are listening to the somewhat grating sounds of SeaGulls, aka Gulls. Most of my information came from these two blog posts: 

https://earbirding.com/blog/archives/4538

https://earbirding.com/blog/archives/3994

We divide gulls into four groups, based on their long calls: High Yelpers represented by the Herring Gull (6:30), Low yelpers represented by California Gulls (7:45) Slow Squealers represented by the Ring-Billed gull (9:02) and Nasal represented by Franklin's Gull (10:30). 

Feel free to email me at [email protected] or through Facebook at BirdingByEarPodcast. 

Other helpful links include:

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/

https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds/

https://xeno-canto.org/

Music is Called Good Thoughts by Diana Taylor from https://taketones.com/track/good-thoughts

This is the most intimidating episode I’ve attempted to make to date. So please remember I’m not an expert birder i put these episodes together to help me learn  I which means I’m still learning. Today we are going to tackle one of the harder bird sound identification challenges there is. Today we’re talking about crossbills.

White Winged Crossbill (5:35) Red Crossbills (8:28) Flight Calls starting at (11:20) Cassia Crossbill (14:00). 

A lot of the information I share come from the following articles. 

https://earbirding.com/blog/archives/31

https://earbirding.com/blog/archives/193

Ebird Article

Sound Credits: 

From Xeno-canto.org Andrew Spencer and James Bradley

From Macalay Library:

277597731 Audio Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra Andrew Spencer

184515141 Audio Cassia Crossbill Loxia sinesciuris Charlie Wright

162143401 Audio Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra Dave Slager

108050621 Audio Cassia Crossbill Loxia sinesciuris Tom Johnson

77548081 Audio Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra Chris Benesh

71525571 Audio Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra Matthew Young

67240981 Audio Cassia Crossbill Loxia sinesciuris Stephen Fettig

65099811 Audio White-winged Crossbill Loxia leucoptera Andrew Spencer

65099031 Audio White-winged Crossbill Loxia leucoptera Andrew Spencer

64431691 Audio Cassia Crossbill Loxia sinesciuris Andrew Spencer

64374301 Audio Cassia Crossbill Loxia sinesciuris Andrew Spencer

42530661 Audio Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra Timothy Spahr

138318 Audio Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra James Goetz

112167 Audio Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra Charles Duncan

111103 Audio Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra Thomas G. Sander

63083 Audio White-winged Crossbill Loxia leucoptera Dave Herr

103203 Audio White-winged Crossbill Loxia leucoptera Matthew D. Medler

112177 Audio White-winged Crossbill Loxia leucoptera Charles Duncan

137497 Audio Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra Gregory Budney

This episode focuses on Mountain-ish, Finch-ish birds. We listen to Pine Siskin (00:48) Cassin's Finch (4:27) Evening Grosbeak (7:15) Pine Grosbeak (13:45), review (17:12). 

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Other helpful links include:

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/

https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds/

https://xeno-canto.org/

Music is Called Good Thoughts by Diana Taylor from https://taketones.com/track/good-thoughts

Addition song recordings are from Macaulay Library

273706751 Andrew Spencer

192487 Bob McGuire

125248  Mike Andersen

130769  Nathan Pieplow

125382  Thomas G. Sander

Last time we talked about crows, raven and magpies. This episode we talk about mountain corvids, well mountainish; including Pinyon Jay (0:47), Clarks Nutcracker (4:05), Canada Jay (6:20) and Steller's Jay (9:13) and we finish with a review of all the corvids so far at (11:30). 

If you missed the episode mountains vs valleys you can check it out here https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-cghrj-14182ec

Feel free to email me at [email protected] or through Facebook at BirdingByEarPodcast. 

Other helpful links include:

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/

https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds/

https://xeno-canto.org/

Music is Called Good Thoughts by Diana Taylor from 

https://taketones.com/track/good-thoughts

Crows caw and Ravens croak but what does that really mean? In this episode we discuss to two sepecies of raven including the Common Raven (1:33), and the Chihuahuan Raven (4:34), two species of crows including American Crow (7:08) and Fish Crow (8:46) and two species of magpies including Black Billed Magpie (10:36) and Yellow Billed Magpie (14:13). 

Feel free to email me at [email protected] or through Facebook at BirdingByEarPodcast. 

Other helpful links include:

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/

https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds/

https://xeno-canto.org/

Music is Called Good Thoughts by Diana Taylor from https://taketones.com/track/good-thoughts