Listening to a Continent Sing

the companion website to the book by Donald Kroodsma

DUSKY FLYCATCHER WY-245

Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

May 31, 7:32 a.m.

Sunrise at 5:45 a.m.

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A dusky flycatcher cycling through his three different songs: PIT-it, pa-EET, PIT-it, prrdurnt in the first five seconds. It's that low-pitched prrdurnt that especially gives him away, together with two other sounds: The pa-EET rises distinctively, the other is the explosive PIT-it.

Background

Red-breasted nuthatch, Lincoln's sparrow, brown-headed cowbird, red squirrel, Swainson's thrush, yellow warbler

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Photo by Brian L. Sullivan