Learn ten of the most common all-year bird calls of Bay Area woodlands.
birding by ear
Ten Woodland Bird Songs
We started Part I of your birdsong odyssey in the backyard. Part II takes us to the oak woodland, a land of multitudinous singing birds.
Ten Backyard Bird Songs
Birds make many sounds to communicate. Often they will have different sounds to stay in contact, beg for food, or sound an alarm, for example. But most well known is the phenomenon of song: these longer, more complex, sometimes musical series of notes are the center of spring’s soundtrack. Here are ten of our most common backyard singers.