Bobolink

[@gmjunky87]

The first time I heard one of these birds my brother and I were working out in the garage. He looked at me and said "You are now hearing the beautiful sounds of the north american r2d2 bird" Ha ha. Neat little guys!

[@josephina4792]

GmJunky87 that was exactly my thought!

[@arleneroth7121]

My little parrot is enthralled by these beautiful songs. He even said "Hi, Cutie!"

[@petermcmaster6673]

Dude these videos are incredible. thank you so much for making these, this is an incredible service to the world

[@flyinspirals]

So, so beautiful. Bobolinks are living jewels, with the voice jewels would have if they could sing. Far more precious. Thank you!

[@domainofthesun4400]

I am going to remember your phrase about the song of jewels for a very long time.

[@WindriderDelta]

This is arguably one of the cutest birds I have ever seen.

[@Blackbarnkitten]

we used to see these all the time growing up on our farm...we would walk ahead of the baler, and put the small ones to safety, as they would be in the windrows of raked hay about to be baled....we now have them back on our farm, so happy for that

[@jenl781398]

Thanks for the video....I'm 58 and today was the first time I have seen a live shot of the bird I did a report on when I was in third grade. Others had Robins , Eagles and Cardinals.I had the Bobolink. I was thrilled to see my bird!

[@mcfiggy6019]

My daughter and I were hiking through farmers' fields yesterday yesterday.I thought it was a kid playing a video game! Lol. She laughed so much at me. She knew exactly what it was. She's 17 and knows so much about birds! Lovely song and video!

[@buckweevil]

Very few things on KZbin are an absolute good, but this is one of them.

[@BioBush]

What an amazing sound! Thank you for sharing your bird experience with us!

[@Busywave]

Nature" is what we see- The Hill-the Afternoon- Squirrel-Eclipse-the Bumble bee- Nay-Nature is Heaven- Nature is what we hear- The Bobolink-the Sea- Thunder-the Cricket- Nay-Nature is Harmony- Nature is what we know- Yet have no art to say- So impotent Our Wisdom is To her Simplicity. by Emily Dickinson

[@jessi929]

Busywave I was reading one of her other poems myself where she references the bobolink and I had to see and listen. Wow! The last thing I thought I would find in the comments was another Emily Dickinson poem :) what a joy.

[@MrPow19]

The artistry here is not only of this beautiful creation of God, but in it's photography. To the people who did this and brought this to us, Thank you so much.

[@klamngo826o9]

may be one day people stop stealing others' resources and stop wars , and in stead , they listen to these cute creatures and to the nature's music , may be this day the peace will approache

[@achangeintheair]

I came across the reference to a bobolink in a poem of Emily Dickinson that read: Some keep the Sabbath going to the Church - I keep it, staying at Home - With a Bobolink for a Chorister - And an Orchard, for a Dome - As we don't have Bobolinks in Ireland, I looked them up and was delighted to come across your video - it is indeed, a celebration. Thank you for sharing - and for the prose-poetry description too. Magical.

[@lizhall2961]

Awesome clip!

[@flashlitestriker4028]

Wow! Incredible! And that "slowed down" bit of the bird's song is GENIUS!

[@lynneperkins494]

Just realized that the Bobolink looks like a London barrister in the Inns of Court! "Muh'Lawd....."The wig, the robes.

[@Trendlespin]

Just clicking a like is just not good enough I LOVE your videos, thank you so much for sharing! It helps greatly in learning the birds. How beautiful these are!

[@TheresiaSwiebel]

The videos with birdsongs are gorgeous! So close and clear!

[@nyphrodel]

Thank you so much for playing their song in slow motion. It brings more attention to the "words" that they say. It literally sounds like a language! If possible, PLEASE include this in ALL of your uploads :^)

[@aturtleinside9426]

the bobolink was always a bird that stuck out in my mind when i took ornithology; the unique way i would remember its song, since it doesn't come to me in a phrase like others might, was because it sounds like r2d2 ^^ i'm not really a star wars fan, but it's so cool and mindblowing that this biological organism can sound like a mechanical, artificial creation!

[@andreschehr4004]

Rode my horse next to a field where Bobolinks were singing yesterday and today. A great soundtrack!

[@msnan270]

Heard Boblinks singing in big hay fields this afternoon in Northfield, MA. I have not been treated to Bobolinks song for years.Good to know they are surviving.

[@ashishr4768]

Nice bird. God's gift to mankind.

[@spacehyena]

There's a large field behind our house teeming with these guys...they're some of my favorite passerine birds. :D

[@tedfrederick693]

Lang Elliott is an master of bird behavior and song!

[@iswc27]

A most unusual and unique bird, in appearance and in song! I could hear plenty of vocal backing from some red-winged blackbirds as well. Thanks for sharing this amazing footage with us!

[@amayarenee]

thanks for sharing such wonderful video, nature is beautiful, we need to appreciate such gift!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@RavilMubarakshin55]

Спасибо за хорошую работу! Отличное видео!

[@leifsaransalmi9377]

So lovely!!!!!!!!!

[@peacockblue8407]

couldn't hear how varied it was until you slowed it down ~~ FANTASTIC!

[@jonbates58]

Nice video and welcome this winter when there is almost 3 ft of snow on the ground at our house. There are few areas in Harney County Oregon where Bobolinks nest - specific to around flood irrigated (from snow melt) meadows that ranchers use for putting up hay.

[@domainofthesun4400]

wow the 1/3 speed section was mind-blowing

[@kevinheckeler]

You need to show them flying around making those insane calls. It's quite a spectacle seeing a field full of them.

[@BelleTolles]

so beautiful! both the song and setting. your works are always magic

[@LangElliott]

Thank you Billie Jo Tarot!

[@BelleTolles]

@@LangElliott I just did three videos here on my KZbin channel on animal totems. The final was swan, and while I did not add their sounds, ( my recordings are so old they're cassette tapes), you may enjoy the photos if you have time some day. Best wishes and thank you for all the hours of enjoyment

[@marjoriegenerazzo109]

Always fun to see and hear a beautiful sight!

[@maiblack448]

Came here after reading a poem by Emily Dickinson. Not disappointed. What a wonderful bird!

[@StoilDIvanov]

Amazing song of this beautiful bird.

[@69venadoify]

I used to love watching the bobolinks in the horse pasture to me they soundlike water gurgling out from an old glass soda bottle you find in a stream..

[@54667991]

I used to see them every year until last year. It's so very quiet and desolate without them.

[@eafranz2452]

:(

[@TheRosa63]

what a pretty boy, his songs are neat, like the slow down version of the song. he seems to be a livly little guy. rose

[@judithdunford4548]

Look @ those numbers go up. You are OUR bird whisperer.

[@lauraevans174]

beautiful! I think I saw one of these in a nearby field the other day, and came on line looking for images. This is great.

[@SkunkFLoes]

Awesome footage!! Thanks a lot!

[@Cplus82]

very clear sound & video, thank you for share, I LIKE IT..

[@kaykeslar3202]

Thank you! I had been watching some videos out of Cornwall and was thinking , why did England get all the beautiful birds....then came YOU ! I now live in Fl., having moved here from beautiful Akron, Ohio.....we do have magnificent birds here but not singers.....I am not able to get out and about so I really love your videos... You are , in a way, allowing me to be a birder again! I wonder if the videos be counted toward being a lifer?! Just wondering.....keep on keeping on!

[@Ellorenzo1]

another master piece!

[@naram4507]

Beautiful, I sow one for the first time today

[@MarMooWorks]

The bobolink's song, captured in this video, is more than "a mad, reckless song fantasia"; it is a dance between body and voice, between one small being and his environment -- a dance connecting those around him in harmony and filling the space with beauty.

[@flashlitestriker4028]

So cute, & sound absolutely adorable! (I got to wondering, though... if the little critters all decided to "try & dye their hair blonde" (cuz they heard "blondes have more fun?)?? (grin!))

[@fullstrutn]

R2 D2 ??

[@m.c.9991]

I pass one every morning cycling to work.

[@ocm01]

Excellent video. Great job!

[@rjcahalan]

They sound like R2D2 to me...great video!

[@PeculiarLancer]

The wild bird version of R2-D2, m8~!

[@Martinelolo]

Excellent bravo et merci

[@irishelk3]

My cat is really loving these, hes here on my lap with his two front legs on the table, i have to upload a video, so funny.

[@jaisonschneider2652]

Very good 👍

[@jenstraightup]

Flying skunk? So cute

[@lynneperkins494]

Hey, it's a jungle out there! A guy's gotta look good and sound good.

[@ЕленаЗабродская-р3ю]

Люблю милых воробушков

[@CaptainGiratina]

it's almost like the bobolink is mimicking other bird very fastly cause around 1:32 , you can hear a crow's caw

[@mcinadr]

Very well done.

[@at4420]

This beautiful birds looks like it's related to the red-wing bird.

[@pedroteia]

Sensacional!!

[@SO-be3dv]

preciousness

[@idulshama]

amazing bird..nice...bro..

[@Tipi_Dan]

A bobolink is cutest.

[@debstrzelecki8805]

Have seen and heard these around an open 80 acre area in MKE, WI near a very urban landscape. They are such striking birds. We have fought long and hard for the past 20 years to keep this area open and natural, but it is currently being destroyed for "development." Time for me to move out of the city!!!

[@ProjectComi]

These are not the Bobolinks you are looking for.

[@pedroteia]

Incrível!!

[@j2bryson]

Where was this filmed? So much birdsong in the bckground too! So much of the world has gone dead to birdsong, we need to ban insecticide altogether.

[@julietelson3992]

looked this up after reading Tall Grass by Maureen Daly who describes their song as sounding like 'shiny bubbles bursting'

[@brotherjohndavid]

Hi Donna! Are you listening to the Bobolink today? John Duerwaechter

[@baileythebirder]

Beautiful video. Would be good to know where it was filmed and what equipment was used.

[@galiaLAG]

Я услышала это ранним утрам-впечатление огромное!Я давно так не отдыхала.Хотя вид пичуги мне не знаком...

[@Ramhanks]

awesome

[@CrazyBear65]

Seems to me like I've seen these around. Also seems like there's an old doo-wop song that goes "Bobolink-a-bobolink-a-bobolink-a-bobolink..." ..Or maybe I'm wrong. I've been wrong a time or ten now and then. I want to know, what kind of bird sounds like it says "Wormy, wormy, wormy, wormy..."? There's one that sounds like "Big cheater, big cheater, big cheater." (That's the ex-wife bird) and then there's one that sounds like "See hampsy, hampsy, hampsy, hamp." I don't know what any of those are.

[@tangerangmerdeka]

wuuoowwwww amazinggg....

[@motherlandbot6837]

Lots of references here to Emily Dickinson's poem, but apparently none to William Cullen Bryant's much lengthier "Robert of Lincoln". As a retired biologist, I cringe at the more fanciful and sentimentalized bird poems, some of which have remarkably little to do with their avian subjects (sorry Mr. Keats), but Bryant's work is both an aesthetic delight, and a fine accomplishment in natural history observation. I can't post a link (KZbin will censor it), even though it is not currently copyrighted. I hope viewers might look it up at any of the many websites where it is available for reading. Perhaps Mr. Elliot might include it?

[@LangElliott]

Here is a link to both poems to which you refer: blogs.massaudubon.org/distractiondisplays/two-poems-for-bobolinks-dickinson-and-bryant/

[@motherlandbot6837]

@@LangElliott Thank you for such a quick response! I have and greatly enjoy 4 of your books: The Songs of Insects, Music of the Birds, The Calls of Frogs and Toads, and Common Birds and Their Songs. Bobolinks are vaguely reminiscent of sub Saharan Africa's Yellow and Yellow Crowned Bishops (Euplectes), which are to some extent their ecological counterparts. The latter also have cryptically plumaged females and juveniles, and adult males that alternate between eclipse and sharply contrasting breeding plumage, along with adaptation to tall grass habitats, though they are not ground nesters. Also Bryant erred in implying that Bobolinks are monogamous, and they rear their young mainly on invertebrates rather than seeds (unlike many cardueline finches). Again, thank you!

[@motherlandbot6837]

@@LangElliott "twee personification and cutesy metaphors"😄!

[@LangElliott]

@@motherlandbot6837 And thank you for your reply. My quote ("mad reckless song-fantasia; an outbreak of pent-up irrepressible glee" is from F. Schuyler Mathews (Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Songs). I think I first saw it one of Arthur Cleveland Bent's volumes, and it really stuck with me. Whenever I hear one singing, my mind throws out that quote.

[@bensevrywere]

i always hear them but i never see them

[@guillermoceferino9801]

Dé dónde es originario esté pájaro sí alguien sabe

[@worldofsimulacra]

When the Creator plugged his glitchy old computer into the internet this bird flew out.

[@lonepeakgeek]

766 by Emily Dickinson No Bobolink- reverses His Singing When the only Tree Ever He minded occupying By the Farmer be - Clove to the Root- His Spacious Future - Best Horizon - gone - Brave Bobolink - Whose Music be His Only Anodyne -

[@gabrielpezoa9843]

bobolink... bubbling 😌

[@edgaralegre9725]

it does sounds like R2D2, maybe that's where they got the idea for R2D2...:)

[@euphfellowship]

R2D2 it IS you!!

[@randidgirl5154]

This is my spirit animal...according to the spiritual lady I saw

[@eja1022]

I have read that these birds are endangered.

[@TheMercadies1]

luv em looks like ice cream got spilled on their heads :D

[@sungodcom]

nice

[@phoenixgamer3480]

Aww

[@sugarthedogyt3573]

How bout the bobolink on problem child

[@jimmychadwick8126]

Makes me want to lie down in the tall grass with molonlave2010, actually. …watch the clouds float by and look at her hair up close. …be 30 years younger.

[@sadikrady6066]

الممراح ( طائر مغرد من الطيور الامريكية المهاجرة)

[@mattman417]

GF says "oh MAN, I WANT TO SMELL IT!"

[@chrisgoldbach4450]

Haha sorry youtube wont show me the comment other than notifications you said ariel predator....... and it cut off

[@OGSpacely555]

Beep boop beep boop

[@muromango4415]

the monkey under the birds

[@side-ab-side9966]

crossword?