Listening to a Continent Sing

the companion website to the book by Donald Kroodsma

CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER VA-42

Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia

May 9, 10:00 a.m.

Sunrise at 6:10 a.m.

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A third chestnut-sided warbler with three examples of his version of the "accented ending" songs, the pleased-pleased-pleased-to-MEETCHA.

Listen to all three examples of the chestnut-sided warbler's daytime, mate-attraction songs (VA-40, VA-42, and this recording), and compare them to the aggressive songs heard at dawn later in the season (VA-43).

Background

Black-and-white warbler, ovenbird.

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Photo by John Van de Graaff