Listening to a Continent Sing

A second least flycatcher (neighbor of the male singing in VA-54) races through his song repertoire, also delivering everything he knows in just a little over a tenth of a second, in a single cheBEK. He pauses a little over half a second and dumps all he knows again, and again, and again, also at a clip of about 70 cheBEK per minute, with short bursts at the rate of nearly 90 songs/minute.

Here is the essence of his dawn performance, one cheBEK after another delivered at breakneck speed.

Background

A second least flycatcher. Other birds heard in the background are an American robin, dark-eyed junco, mourning dove, tufted titmouse. One rather special, distant bird is a wild turkey gobbling (e.g., 0:16, 0:53).

Photo by John Van de Graaff

Photo by John Van de Graaff