A GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING BIRD SONG AND CALLS

In this guide I try explain a little bit about some of the basic terms used to describe bird vocalisations, such as the tone, pitch and rhythm and how with just a little practice you will be able to start identifying birds purely by the sounds they make and also start to understand the meanings behind their vocalisations, and also tell the difference between a song and a call.
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[@Vorian174]

Definitely the best bird song and call on KZbin.

[@harrywhyte3647]

This is very nicely put together Maurice, superbly entertaining and educating!

[@BlackPhoebe7]

I have enjoyed, and been listening to, Maurice Baker's videos and voice for some years. I absolutely love them- so helpful and appreciative of birds. THANK YOU!!

[@richardturkington2698]

I've been wondering about the difference between robin and wren calls for a while now and this video was perfect for helping me learn how to tell the difference between them

[@oisin8152]

Youre very knowledgeable Maurice, thanks for sharing.

[@josephrobinson5282]

Thank you Mr Baker. This video is just what I've been looking for! It is so much easier to identify a bird by its sound. For instant the robin's song has a unique ability to to sing 2 notes at the same time - a chord in effect which is so beautiful. The chaffinch seems to be the same except the last flourish at the end. You have helped the confusion in my head over the great tit variations! Thanks again for this unique video.

[@grantperry8195]

This has to be the best video about bird song on You Tube - thank you so much.

[@Betty77168]

I agree.

[@birdsaloud7590]

Thank you so much. I listened to this whilst cooking!

[@geraldfitzgibbon7428]

Ur right. Observation is not just about seeing with our eyes alone.

[@michaelm3149]

A very original approach to bird song and calls, fascinating and the visuals brilliantly presented. Your voice is very quiet throughout, Maurice, but it makes a change from most folk who talk over the birdsong!! I'm interested in how many birds derive their names from their calls and songs. Yes, the section about the golden plovers, an unusual and little known call, was beautiful and unique.

[@Huumf]

Incredible video , need more !!

[@JudasFm]

I FINALLY FOUND THE "BRITNEY BIRD!" (Okay, a little explanation: when I was in my mid-20s, I was sick and bedridden in my grandparents' house in the country. There was a window that looked over the garden, mostly obscured by a massive holly bush and a hedge and some trees over the road. This meant that I couldn't see any of the birds, but I could hear them. I just had no idea what I was listening to. One bird was very loud and I dubbed it the Britney Bird, because to me, it sounded like the bird was just singing, "brit-NEE, brit-NEE!" Ever since then, I've wondered what it actually was, and thanks to your awesome video, I finally know that I was listening to a Song Thrush 🤩I don't know if you'll ever read this comment, since it's an older video, but I wanted to thank you for solving a mystery that's bugged me for the last ten years 🤣)

[@DoubleUThings]

Just watched (and listened :-) ) the whole video. This is a true document of bird songs. This should be seen and heard by a way larger public! Thanx for it!

[@seanmacgowan616]

Keeping this. Learnt a great deal about bird song in these 30 minutes of video. Excellent job.

[@violina48]

Wonderful video! I love all de bird sounds and birds! Thank you Maurice

[@johnatkinson116]

Maurice, I only just found your video and I have to say how wonderful it is. It is Very informative and has helped me recognise the birds I’m hearing. You have a great way of presenting as well. Many thanks. 😀

[@garyburkin]

Thanks for your excellent video, Maurice. Having the spectrograms really helps you visualise the differences between different bird calls.

[@avinash2060]

Thank you Maurice for sharing your knowledge and wisdom in this brilliant video.

[@teodorabokonyi5634]

Amazing video, great source to learn about birds and good for the soul.Thank you so much!

[@joannewalker9282]

Stumble across this presentation and thought I would give it ago. I wasn’t disappointed it was so educational and informative. I love near a wood and love photography but struggle to know what birds are around until I see them. This preset has given me the beginning to learn the basic of the birds locally to me. Thank you.

[@christinehatfield9051]

That was so beautiful, and very helpful too. Many thanks

[@carolynthompson3291]

Absolutely mesmerising - very informative and a pleasure to both watch and listen to. Thank you

[@puredeadmagicman9652]

Superb Maurice. I learned a lot and it was so much fun to watch!

[@rottern]

Excellent work Maurice.

[@MikeWalker]

Lovely presentation, Maurice. It helped me on my way.

[@martincohen2737]

Eva: what I have wished for, a long time now. (And more)Thank you so much , !

[@IEnjoyCreatingVideos]

Nice video Maurice! Thanks for sharing it with us.😎👍JP

[@clairecalverley6441]

thanks so much for this Maurice - the spectogram is fascinating and could be very helpful visual aid!

[@lizziedallas]

thank you for this beautiful video! i've been searching for something this comprehensive for a while now :)

[@lukemoxham2869]

Excellent video. Learnt a great deal and will use that base knowledge to expand my learning!

[@johnshew631]

Thank you for this fascinating film, lots of info for the beginner, excellent.

[@gailh4466]

Really very interesting and helpful. Thank you for taking the time. I've just listened to this again, and it is so helpful and interesting

[@colleenbeckman905]

Thank you great help for a bird lover...🍃💫🕊

[@deedeedodo8092]

What a great video, so informative and interesting! I've now subscribed to your channel, thank you Maurice!

[@oight]

thank u so much for this, this is such a helpful video 😊 I'm quite new to listening out for bird sounds and bird watching, it's true that I've went about my life completely tuning out bird sounds and now I regret it! my uncle would tell me birds he would hear on walks and I never thought anything much about it. however, last year I had to stay back with my parents because of a long hospital visit until I was better. I started feeding the birds during lockdown in their garden because I was interested in the jackdaws that I'd see come near my window, and since then there's so many birds that live in the garden now ❤️ it feels like a little community and I'll be sad to leave again, but I'll make sure my parents give out clean water and some bird seed mix when I'm not there. I also love the pair of blackbirds that live in my garden, and the male blackbird at first I was scared of haha. but now, it's become so friendly because I give it food and has even flown up to my lap recently to get bird food 😭❤️ anyway, I hear so many bird noises that I can't recognise, and I don't want to look at the birds directly as they sometimes fly away, so this is incredibly helpful and I'll study hard, thank you 😁 I live in scotland so there are some birds like ospreys I see near popular hill walking spots, but I wish we had nightingales up here. I'm 25 so not many of my friends are into bird watching, but I'm slowly getting some of them into it when we go hillwalking lol

[@anniemacdonald3957]

So informative. I need to watch it several times to take it all in. Really enjoyed watching

[@gavingaming123]

What an informative and easily understood guide. Thanks so much for sharing. All the best. GD

[@jakubprzyrodnik]

Awesome video! So many useful facts and fantastic footage. I especially like Goldcrest close-up. Also, the last scene with Golden Plovers is impressive! I'm happy you uploaded a new video because I couldn't wait to it. At the moment, I'm learning to recognize birds calls and songs. It's not that easy but fascinating. Unfortunately, in Polish Chiff Chaff's name isn't onomatopeic at all :( (it's 'pierwiosnek'). Warm greetings!

[@touchedbynature5445]

Wonderful, very helpful. Big Thanks

[@jackwalton9021]

Thank you Maurice for a very informative and useful video. Although it's easy to find resources to identify birds by sight, I've found it much more difficult to find resources on identifying birds by their call. I've saved this video to return to again in the future

[@jarmilakacirkova]

Hello, I congratulate you on a wonderful learning video! It's great, thank you! Greetings from the Czech Republic are sent by Jarmila

[@singing4hope]

I love your channel! I'm glad I found you through your sparrow video!

[@chrisrainbow2393]

Lonely video, thank you , i have subbed.

[@mukuzabethjenner]

Thank you so much! It is very complete. Amazing video btw

[@briansrcadventures1316]

Interesting video, nice use of spectrograms to analyse bird calls and songs :-) Subscribed!

[@mbaresilumturi5147]

Beautiful it's, my pleasures. Miraculous

[@jemmapayne-allen4632]

This is excellent!

[@richardtough8548]

Wonderful video and excellent explanations...always found it frustrating that I’m not as successful at identifying birds by their songs and calls as I am by the sight of them or their movement. I think this will help me a great deal...thank you so much! I’ll be watching this a good few more times, for sure! PS I did note a couple of typos on the scientific names you may have missed.

[@winifredpower9818]

thank you so much ... fascinating

[@TheOrganiclady]

How interesting this video was. My thought was that the robin's song was praising God, his creator. 'Let EVERYTHING THAT HATH BREATH praise the LORD.' Amazing how beautiful birds are.

[@nickchristian8195]

Superb!

[@pariawe]

Maurice, thank you for your great preparation, it is much more informative than many other videos i have found in the net. But due to the dominance of low frequency elements in your voice between the high frequency sounds of birds, it was sometimes hard to understand your words on my behalf. Even so, i am very grateful

[@wildlifewatch2220]

Beautiful Video! :) Greetings from Germany ☺

[@peterbeard5440]

Excellent.

[@rachelhybrid632]

Lovely Maurice. Just lovely! I recently found that birds use there 8th sense to communicate with each other. .. i guess we would call it telepathy 😊

[@singing4hope]

For real? Wow

[@timcollingwood6158]

Hi thanks for the very nice presentation ,really enjoyed this Regards Tim

[@evamz9584]

It’s 2am and I’m trying to figure out what bird it is I hear singing outside my window! I’m enjoying it❤️ I just can’t believe I’ve never noticed them singing this loud and proud so early!

[@markriley7902]

Eva MZ my money would be on a robin 👍

[@muthlong8823]

THANK YOU SO MUCH. FOR SHARED. THESE. VIDEO,HAVE. A GREAT. DAY SIR, BYE,

[@Slekkevet]

Excellent. Well done.

[@MauriceBaker100]

Thank you Slekkkevet for your kind comments.

[@iantubeism]

To me, the spectrogram of dawn chorus (end of video) looks like a city of cathedrals and churches... fitting for such divine sounds.

[@DoubleUThings]

Maurice, beautiful footage again, and very interesting info! I love birds, although I'm not a "birder", and I can immensely enjoy a singing bird. Question: for example, at 4:40, how do you make such "inlays" or whatever you might call it, in your footage? And also just the wave forms in your footage? Thanx in advance, Wim

[@MauriceBaker100]

Thanks Win for your kind comments. I use Adobe Premiere Pro CC for all my video editing. To make the clip 4:24 to 4:46 , I first made a 1920 x 1080 pix still photo of the frame with 3 large transparent windows in Paint Shop Pro 7 and saved it as a Photoshop psd file to keep the transparency of the windows. For the sound editing I use Wave Pad Sound Editor which shows the wave form & can also show the Frequency Spectrogram in a second window, I then play and record the selected piece as a new clip with Movavi Screen Recorder 9. To assemble the clip in Premiere Pro I place the ‘psd’ window frame still on line V3, then place the screen grab spectrogram underneath this on line V2 and it will show through the transparent windows, it will require resizing and repositioning to match the window or windows. The screen grab also contains the audio, so it will be in sink with the spectrogram. The Frame clip can then be stretched out to the same length as the spectrogram. For the left hand window I added a video of a robin to track V1, it also required repositioning and resizing but also in effects it needed a Linear Wipe to remove part of the left hand side. Text was then added to track V4. I hope this was helpful, maybe I should try and do a How To video some time!

[@DoubleUThings]

That ... really sounds as rocket science, haha! But I grasp the idea. Thanx

[@gda295]

thnx v evocative

[@tnexperiments]

Interesting

[@jacoroets5737]

Would like to see the names of all the birds.

[@gualtieromalpezzi2458]

Ma sta zett un po'!

[@jollyjokress3852]

*the accent gets a like* (the content too)

[@markriley7902]

Your manner reminds me of Jack Hargreaves 👍

[@Dave-fr8tk]

Great video it very hard to hear you at times because you voice is lower than the bird calls

[@jollyjokress3852]

7:10 Accipiter gentilis

[@operationmindfuck7145]

Quantum physics would say the tree stops existing when it isn't being observed.

[@giuseppepellegrinelli8198]

ottimo canto turdo bottaccio

[@acteon-nature-wildlife4507]

Hello Maurice Nice vidéo excellent travail bravo beau résultats et partage subscribe ok wellcom you me channel thank you

[@twilightmoon3782]

engrossing

[@operationmindfuck7145]

If you see bats flying around get a stick or something and throw it up and they will swoop on it and follow it to the ground.

[@JohnSmith-uc9cr]

LOL do not whistle the "teacher x3" in your garden - it means you claim ownership - n prop 'scare' the birds

[@dianed4190]

Too much narrative for me over the bird songs and calls. I just wanted to hear the birds and be shown their identity.

[@user-xu7sx1jb8o]

Maurice isn’t showing or telling here, he is teaching…he’s not handing out fish, he’s teaching us how to fish! There are lots of videos on KZbin you can fill your boots on listening to bird song, or better still go out and listen in the local environs…you’ll be better equipped to hear what you’re listening to after a Maurice video. I’m sure. Enjoy…🤗

[@juancalvibassclarinet1171]

very informative, but poor voice, difficult to understand, thank you