Listening to a Continent Sing

the companion website to the book by Donald Kroodsma

DICKCISSEL MO-112

Mississippi River flood plain, Perryville, Missouri

May 30, 9:41 a.m.

Sunrise at 5:39

Download the Recording

Five songs from dickcissel number 2 in the Perryville dialect.

Here's a summary of the dickcissel dialects you can listen to:

Illinois, Shawnee National Forest, one male: IL-107

Illinois, beside the Mississippi River, three males: IL-108, IL-109, IL-110

Missouri, beside the Mississippi River, four males: MO-111, MO-112, MO-113, MO-114

Missouri, Prairie State Park, six males: MO-154, MO-155, MO-156, MO-157, MO-158, MO-159

Background

Other dickcissels, and the wind whipping a metal roadside sign.

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Photo by John Van de Graaff