This is the first in a series of episodes all about shorebirds. We start off easy with just three birds that say their own name. Today we talk about Killdeer, Willet, and Long-billed Curlew.

I love hearing from you. Write me a review and I'll mail you a sticker with the logo for this podcast for free. You can reach me at [email protected] or on facebook at birdingbyearpodcast.facebook.com Next week will be the first new episode of 2026 Music is Called Good Thoughts by Diana Taylor from https://taketones.com/track/good-thoughts

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That's right today we are listening to the somewhat grating sounds of SeaGulls, aka Gulls. Most of my information came from these two blog posts:  https://earbirding.com/blog/archives/4538 https://earbirding.com/blog/archives/3994   We divide gulls into four groups, based on their long calls: High Yelpers represented by the Herring Gull (6:30), Low yelpers represented by California Gulls (7:45) Slow Squealers represented by the Ring-Billed gull (9:02) and Nasal represented by Franklin's Gull (10:30).    Feel free to email me at [email protected] or through Facebook at BirdingByEarPodcast.  Other helpful links include: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/ https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds/ https://xeno-canto.org/ Music is Called Good Thoughts by Diana Taylor from https://taketones.com/track/good-thoughts

This is the most intimidating episode I’ve attempted to make to date. So please remember I’m not an expert birder i put these episodes together to help me learn  I which means I’m still learning. Today we are going to tackle one of the harder bird sound identification challenges there is. Today we’re talking about crossbills. White Winged Crossbill (5:35) Red Crossbills (8:28) Flight Calls starting at (11:20) Cassia Crossbill (14:00).  A lot of the information I share come from the following articles.  https://earbirding.com/blog/archives/31 https://earbirding.com/blog/archives/193 Ebird Article   Sound Credits:  From Xeno-canto.org Andrew Spencer and James Bradley From Macalay Library: 277597731 Audio Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra Andrew Spencer 184515141 Audio Cassia Crossbill Loxia sinesciuris Charlie Wright 162143401 Audio Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra Dave Slager 108050621 Audio Cassia Crossbill Loxia sinesciuris Tom Johnson 77548081 Audio Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra Chris Benesh 71525571 Audio Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra Matthew Young 67240981 Audio Cassia Crossbill Loxia sinesciuris Stephen Fettig 65099811 Audio White-winged Crossbill Loxia leucoptera Andrew Spencer 65099031 Audio White-winged Crossbill Loxia leucoptera Andrew Spencer 64431691 Audio Cassia Crossbill Loxia sinesciuris Andrew Spencer 64374301 Audio Cassia Crossbill Loxia sinesciuris Andrew Spencer 42530661 Audio Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra Timothy Spahr 138318 Audio Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra James Goetz 112167 Audio Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra Charles Duncan 111103 Audio Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra Thomas G. Sander 63083 Audio White-winged Crossbill Loxia leucoptera Dave Herr 103203 Audio White-winged Crossbill Loxia leucoptera Matthew D. Medler 112177 Audio White-winged Crossbill Loxia leucoptera Charles Duncan 137497 Audio Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra Gregory Budney

This episode focuses on Mountain-ish, Finch-ish birds. We listen to Pine Siskin (00:48) Cassin's Finch (4:27) Evening Grosbeak (7:15) Pine Grosbeak (13:45), review (17:12).  Feel free to email me at [email protected] or through Facebook at BirdingByEarPodcast.  Other helpful links include: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/ https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds/ https://xeno-canto.org/ Music is Called Good Thoughts by Diana Taylor from https://taketones.com/track/good-thoughts Addition song recordings are from Macaulay Library 273706751 Andrew Spencer 192487 Bob McGuire 125248  Mike Andersen 130769  Nathan Pieplow 125382  Thomas G. Sander

Last time we talked about crows, raven and magpies. This episode we talk about mountain corvids, well mountainish; including Pinyon Jay (0:47), Clarks Nutcracker (4:05), Canada Jay (6:20) and Steller's Jay (9:13) and we finish with a review of all the corvids so far at (11:30).  If you missed the episode mountains vs valleys you can check it out here https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-cghrj-14182ec   Feel free to email me at [email protected] or through Facebook at BirdingByEarPodcast.  Other helpful links include: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/ https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds/ https://xeno-canto.org/ Music is Called Good Thoughts by Diana Taylor from  https://taketones.com/track/good-thoughts

Crows caw and Ravens croak but what does that really mean? In this episode we discuss to two sepecies of raven including the Common Raven (1:33), and the Chihuahuan Raven (4:34), two species of crows including American Crow (7:08) and Fish Crow (8:46) and two species of magpies including Black Billed Magpie (10:36) and Yellow Billed Magpie (14:13).    Feel free to email me at [email protected] or through Facebook at BirdingByEarPodcast.  Other helpful links include: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/ https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds/ https://xeno-canto.org/ Music is Called Good Thoughts by Diana Taylor from https://taketones.com/track/good-thoughts

Virginia's Warber: 1:15 Lucy's Warber: 4:09 Nashville Warbler: 6:50 Black-throated Gray Warbler: 10:00  Review: 13:00    Feel free to email me at [email protected] or through Facebook at BirdingByEarPodcast.  Other helpful links include: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/ https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds/ https://xeno-canto.org/ Music is Called Good Thoughts by Diana Taylor from https://taketones.com/track/good-thoughts

In this episode we finish up learning about the common wrens in the ABA area. Including Rock Wren (1:30), Bewick's Wren (4:17), Cactus Wren (8:30), Canyon Wren (10:34), Marsh Wren (14:12), Sedge Wren (16:33), and their calls (18:10).  Feel free to email me at [email protected] or through Facebook at BirdingByEarPodcast.  Other helpful links include: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/ https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds/ https://xeno-canto.org/ Music is Called Good Thoughts by Diana Taylor from  https://taketones.com/track/good-thoughts