Listening to a Continent Sing

the companion website to the book by Donald Kroodsma

CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER VA-40

Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia

May 9, 6:15 a.m.

Sunrise at 6:10 a.m.

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Four daytime songs from a chestnut-sided warbler, all four of the same "accented-ending" (AE), pleased-pleased-pleased-to-MEETCHA variety.

Listen to all three examples of the chestnut-sided warbler's daytime, mate-attraction songs (this recording, VA-41,and VA-42), and compare them to the aggressive songs heard at dawn later in the season (VA-43).

Background

Eastern towhee, wood thrush, field sparrow, indigo bunting

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Photo by John Van de Graaff