Learn 30 Spring Common Backyard Bird Songs and Calls (Central and Eastern United States)

[@Draveyarg]

Thanks to you, I cannot stop hearing as chorus of "cheeseburger" in my backyard!

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

I hear this w a "news report/breaking bulletin" chirp.

[@ariabritton9669]

I genuinely barely hear "cheeseburger". I hear it calling for someone named Phoebe. Like "Fee-bee-ee!"

[@nicholaskahane4763]

I finally know the culprit behind my favorite bird cry, it's the Eastern Phoebe! Thank you for uploading!

[@Valerie-pc4gi]

My husband and I recently went on a crazy hunt for a kitten near a ravine, only to find a Gray Catbird looking at us 😅 Thank you for all these great mnemonic devices!

[@lisak7247]

You are good people.

[@dimbopsah2066]

Mnemonic.

[@Valerie-pc4gi]

@@dimbopsah2066 and to think I went to school for English and Literature 😂 Thank you for the correction-- fixed it!

[@Gigi.eq13]

Oh how funny!!

[@Stan4535814]

On my porch, 9 a.m., playing this on my phone as a refresher. A bright yellow oriole landed on the rail, not 4 feet away, looking puzzled. She stayed there till a white nuthatch landed on the back of my chair (cowardly compared to the red species, which habitually land on my head). My birds are brazen as heck, but they ARE fed well & I don't consume much meat. LOVE this particular video; the mnemonics help tremendously.

[@RinShimada5]

I remember hearing robins, cardinals, and chickadees since I was about 7 or 8 years old and they're such a nostalgic sound, like 8am on a summer morning, like nothing to look forward to, but all the time to play.

[@angelmartin7310]

Wow, cardinals are the ones constantly running their beaks in my yard. Lol. Like constantly. All night even.

[@thewoodsman45]

Thank you so much! For over 20 years I have wondered what this beautiful, almost mystical sounding bird was!! As soon as you used the word "ethereal" I knew it was going to be what I was looking for! The hermit thrush! It makes the most beautiful calls in the mid to late spring. It almost seems like it is never near by, always just out of reach. I can't believe I finally found out what that beautiful bird is!!

[@BadgerlandBirding]

Happy to help! You may want to check out the Wood Thrush song too, which is also very ethereal

[@joeyfemia2819]

black--capped chickadee will always be my favorite because it reminds me of home and waking up to warmer weather in the spring.

[@hymmj147]

The robin is my 4 am company when I can't sleep.

[@lindasapiecha2515]

❤❤❤🌷🌷🌷👍👍👍

[@1234-m7w]

😂i know lol

[@openlybookish]

Positive I heard one this morning.

[@c.a.6636]

The Robin is why I can't sleep

[@Pwrcritter]

Mine is the Cardinal..

[@suzannewang2561]

Thanks for this!! I enjoyed it and have heard and seen many in our backyard! Live in n.w. Illinois and we are now having bluebirds for the first time in my life, and I am 80 years old!

[@rebeccaorr6042]

This video helped us identify a cardinal's song that we heard in the backyard. Thanks!

[@missreetz0704]

I’d been trying to identify the black capped chickadee since I was a kid 🤣 I’ve been whistling back at them for over 20 years

[@alysiafurr5190]

I tryed to call falcon but I think I used the wrong species of hawk call (Peregrine falcon call is what I used)

[@elecktronbluegirl]

Cheese burgerrrrr...

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

I heard one at dusk: a could only peep at him once, tho. Then he flew like 300 feet in a second! Fast!

[@lisamariegordon4912]

Thank you for this video. My mom and I became bird warchers by using this video and the 30 spring birds video. The mnemonic descriptions are a great help.

[@Brisleep1]

Wow, so many haters that must have nothing to do, so they spew nonsense here. Thank you for this! I recently moved from northern Nevada to Pennsylvania and this, including how to remember their calls is very helpful.

[@lisak7247]

Watching at 4 AM to see who is waking me up.😂

[@avahorton4977]

Ditto! I just want to know whats making this wierd loud noise by my window so I can go back to sleep.

[@avahorton4977]

Turns out the sound was a Gecko somewhere in my house. Finally matched the sound I am freaked out! 😳

[@lisak7247]

@@avahorton4977 well...that eat bugs? Lol

[@cam.17]

@@avahorton4977geckos make noise?? wtf

[@taviacox7689]

I did the same thing 😂

[@leannestanding8358]

The white-crowned sparrow sings ‘I gotta go wee-wee now-now’. Once you hear it, you can never unhear it haha

[@BadgerlandBirding]

🤣 I’m gonna listen for that next time!

[@bobbyboucher4101]

You are delight, breath of fresh air. Some of those wonders of nature I did not hear before. Thank you so much.

[@sherryweeks5956]

I'm 67, I know all these indigenous birds and their calls. I treated a nighthawk and let it go. It's a cousin of the whip-poor-will.

[@sarahgracesings]

Northern DE, I’ve heard and seen white throated sparrow, house wren, chickadee, brown thrasher, Cardinal, Robin in my yard. Once a towhee. Heard the hermit thrush and flicker in the woods before! Thanks for this great list of reference!

[@sherryweeks5956]

I have 4 broods I let them nest anywhere they want. They do. So wonderful to see Moms and Dads tending the nest and feeding!

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

Get them a birdbath. Menard's has ceramic ones for only 50.00. Aldi has a cheaper one. In winter, they have suet they love for very cheap.

[@donnapresto9839]

I have red cardinals at 3am, I love their singing

[@connieh9581]

I have a 2am mocking bird here in southeast texas. He’s very very cheerful. I’m not. I do love my birds. Just not at that time of night.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

​@@connieh9581"WTH are birds so damn happy about at 4am??"

[@athena1047]

Eastern Phoebe sounds something like what I hear in Central Illinois. I tell my babies they are calling Grandma TT's name. We smile and giggle.

[@BadgerlandBirding]

@@athena1047 haha that checks out! Could also be the Eastern Wood-Pewee!

[@athena1047]

@@BadgerlandBirding LoL sounds like a wolf whistle a bit. Sweet lil bird 🐦

[@luvnharmony]

Yes I’ve heard the the grey catbird. I was thinking that it was a kitten trapped in the woods! 🤣🤣🤣 nice to know that it was a bird!

[@wittwittwer1043]

A friend and I feed the birds at the edge of an industrial park near some railroad and Metro train tracks. Some of the birds shown here are regular "clients." They rarely sing near the space where we feed them, But sometimes they will sing at a distance before showing up. We have never heard the brown thrasher sing; I didn't know it had such an enthralling song. A favorite visitor pair are blue jays, who have begun showing up since we now put raw in-shell peanuts out. Crows and grackles will also take them.

[@Beryllahawk]

This one was great, because I do indeed hear quite a few of these each morning! MANY Northern Cardinal calls, I'm not sure (yet) if I have one breeding pair coming around or more than that, but definitely there's at least one male-female pair that comes every day to poke around the yard. Also have two Brown Thrashers but if I can see them they're not calling, if they're calling I can't ever see them, sneaky things! But the Gray Catbird is the chattiest bird, and sassy too; I think I have a family group, though I'm not sure how "social" the birds are - but there are FIVE of them that come and forage, and they will frequently chase the squirrels away from the bird feeder, and just as frequently come to the feeder and holler if there's no seed there yet! They are quite the characters! Earlier in the spring I heard Chickadee and Eastern Phoebe, but I guess they were just passing through, because I don't hear or see them anymore. One of the neighbors has a chimney - so, every evening I get to see and somewhat hear them as they get ready to come back to their roost for the night. I'm very familiar with the Swift's calls tho, because years ago the house I was in also had a chimney, and we had Swifts, and at least one baby would mess up at fledging time and fall down into the house! But we could hear 'em always, chimneys being like they are. Wonderful video! I wonder if you might discuss some of the twilight birds (and other critters) that are common? Sometimes I've mistaken bats for Chimney Swifts, the high pitched calls seem really similar to me, and it's not until I catch sight and see the difference in flight pattern that I correct myself. I know it's really hard to accurately photo in that dim light but even just the calls could be really fascinating, I think!

[@judyverro7880]

My husband thought bird watching was nerdy, but guess who bought binoculars to....watch birds!

[@ChristianAuthorChristineReeves]

🤣

[@BadgerlandBirding]

lol got him!

[@JustYvette]

😂

[@craffte]

Once you start you can't stop 🐦

[@elecktronbluegirl]

I think we all reach this phase in life eventually.

[@jolenebauser408]

I love the rose breasted grosbeak! It has recently started visiting my backyard.

[@leenah9898]

I live in Minnesota and I have gray catbird’s in my backyard but for the most part I’ve seen and heard all of these birds. ❤

[@jamesgmize]

watching this high was an amazing experience thank you bird man

[@roncowan276]

I enjoy listening to Bird songs. Thank you.

[@KevinZ.000]

Ornithology of the songs, tweets, chirps, whistles, etc. is one of the things that I need to work on. I know some of the common bird calls in my area, northeast US. Thanks for this video, keep up the good work, cheers.

[@markaxelson5940]

This was really helpful! The added touch of you putting words to song clears things up a lot.

[@BadgerlandBirding]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ChemGuyCCHS2010]

Thanks ; Keep up the Recordings 2023

[@JD27770]

Gonna watch this video many times. Thanks!

[@ughmazing8073]

Omg thank you. For years ive wondered what I was hearing that sounded like a tropical bird. It must be the Flicker.

[@thetraveler2561]

Cardinal, Robin, Song Sparrow, most common in our backyard here in Illinois....but Junco, Chickadee Tanager, and Blackbird can be heard on occasion. The first ones up in the morning are the Sparrow and Robin and Cardinal. I listen to them when my window is open right before sun up.

[@sollyxavier1538]

I love it because it’s so good ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@robrubio7583]

Great video. I enjoy bird sounds.

[@RionPhotography]

I love my sparrows - I’ve got a billion of them. I still get plenty of other varieties as well. I keep a lot of feeders and trays out around the yard so everyone can find something.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

The house sparrows crack me up! Extremely resourceful! I've seen them fly off w a 3 for long x 2 inch strip of plastic for a nest, and once a whole Oreo! They have a field day in my yard, as I'm a mass murderer (of flies). I swat them, and dinner is served.

[@ChristianAuthorChristineReeves]

🌸Beautiful bird chirps, thank you for sharing!🕊

[@caterscarrots3407]

I have been hearing robins singing for weeks, especially in the morning and evening hours. Evening time comes around and I start hearing that "cheer up cheer up cheerily cheerily" song on repeat. I hear it a bit in the afternoon too, but like 6-8 PM and 4-6 AM is when I hear them the most.

[@BadgerlandBirding]

That checks out! They love singing early and late!

[@yghhuh1755]

The Northern Cardinal is what I've been hearing early in the morning and sometimes around 4 or 5 in the evening... Thanks

[@AtlanticFun]

I have been hearing a very beautiful song in my garden. I couldn't see the bird but thanks to ur help I think is the Cardinal. Thanks much.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

I saw my first bluebird the other day! First ever! Midwest.

[@BadgerlandBirding]

@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 awesome!

[@CMKMarch63]

I’m in New Jersey and I think I’ve heard most of these . Thanks for this video , very helpful!😊

[@BadgerlandBirding]

Glad it was helpful!

[@johnfrick9995]

I have a brown thrasher that is nesting in my front yard. I also hear a gray catbird doing meow calls every day.

[@TravelingLight777]

🙌🏼🤗 hear a lot of these in Canada too - great recordings and TY for the fun ways to remember various calls.

[@malolm]

I forgot most of these over the winter, thanks for calls guys, keep it up!

[@johnbarney5787]

I've noticed that cardinals react very aggressively to a cardinal call over Bluetooth speaker. They show up looking for a fight!😁

[@maryanneconheim8846]

Informative and charming! Many thanks.

[@regenerativegardeningwithpatti]

NIce job. I have many of the birds you showcased. Especially the cat bird!

[@TracyBirds]

Have seen and heard many of these, love the sounds of spring!

[@fishnsyd]

I’ve been hearing the black capped chickadee spring song a lot on Washington. Lots of robins here too.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

You mean "cheeseburger birds?" As they will now forever be known...? Mine make a special news broadcast song after the usual. They all know it. I don't know from where.

[@taniajuedes7621]

We have pretty much all of them. Nice to put a sound to what bird. Thank you!

[@sistersoe827]

I recognized all of those sounds in my yard and few that were not included. Great video. TY

[@ElizabethBattle]

I loved this! Thank you. We have nearly all of these birds in our wooded property.🙂

[@nathanwebb4836]

The northern mockingbird is the most common bird here in Alabama especially during spring. I hear many of those sing.

[@judyglasel5870]

Lovely post !Thank you so mush !

[@mjinba07]

Thanks! These are great. Several of these songs are similar to each other, and now I know I've been mistaking the Thrasher for a Catbird. In my area we think of that Red Wing Blackbird call as sounding like a police whistle.

[@redemptionisnear8553]

Excellent! Thank you!

[@sherryweeks5956]

With mockingbirds...hard to differentiate as their ability to copy is unlimited. One mocked my microwave and phone. I fell for it.

[@sharonshowalter1044]

Very nicely done with excellent narration! The best ever!!!

[@BadgerlandBirding]

Thanks!

[@kristinaflint7837]

There's red Wing blackbirds that love the northern marshes around me but they are so gorgeous everytime I see them

[@joelmerrill]

Thank you for this. We always used to say blue jays were calling, Thief Thief.

[@paulbugnacki7107]

Great descriptions. Learned a few new ones.

[@sherryweeks5956]

I've only seen a couple of indigo buntings in my life. I do bird calls. They answer. Especially cardinals!

[@marzinnolembo2626]

The white throated sparrow I have been looking for that answer for a few years now thank you

[@BadgerlandBirding]

You’re welcome!

[@BiscuitBoy1972]

Love Bird song so much! Keep 'em coming!

[@PushpaBalakrishna-f1w]

God bless you ! I never heard most of these birds before ! They were such a delight to listen to- can you post some bird call videos of south Florida port saint Lucie area back yard bird songs? Would love to hear

[@janedoe1146]

So helpful, thank you!!

[@sarahb.6475]

I know I have heard lots of these here including the cardinal, black capped chickadee, robin, junco, the various sparrows, red winged blackbirds to name a few.

[@lonemagnoliafarm7187]

We have house wrens nesting above the window, they like to perch on the flood light and sing, I've also heard that chickadees make a hay sweety or a tea kettle,

[@Stan4535814]

Wow, I was coming back to add a *caveat* to my comment and it was already blessed with a ❤! Thx! So, new comment on caution: the birds & other wildlife all act as trusting as chickadees, which is really touching. They even...for the most part...trust my cat companion. (She has wild rabbits & squirrels she's befriended). But all the bright colors & innocence have an enormous down side: predators. I frequently wake up to Ruddy, the red-tailed hawk, on my porch railing. I've spotted kestrels on the shepard's crook that holds 2 of my feeders. There's even talon marks from a Bald Eagle (Ralph or Gerda, a pair I'm very familiar with, but not sure which...genders look similar. I name EVERYONE. Gives them significance, to me anyway) on my front door surrounding the static-cling cat I placed there to dissuade birds from crashing there. Ironic, isn't it? But there's the down side, just saying.

[@Stan4535814]

@@PartlySunny74 Hey, since I just picked up my phone, saw your comment and user name, I gotta ask: cardinals have always been precious to me (there's even one illustrated on my mom's gravestone). Anyway, I'm so heartbroken about this (previously) gorgeous male cardinal who visits my feeders daily. He has bird mange. A bad, BAD case of it. He no longer has his crest & his head resembles a buzzard's. Is there anything AT ALL that I can do for him? (His mate remains unscathed, for now). IDK what to do & it's eating up my insides...

[@Stan4535814]

@@PartlySunny74 Thx for responding. Unfortunately, it's those orange arachnids that eat keratin. I'm quite familiar with ornithology, and have had many, many avian companions. But the reason I'm sure of this is because last year, a bluejay had these and clearly sought my help. Nothing I could do for her, because my daughter...don't ask why...gets consistently bit by the things. I had to avoid the poor bird...They jumped onto me unnoticed and then her. They're practically microscopic, but she showed me (after smashing several on her skin) what one looked like. (The only treatment I found wouldn't ship from Australia. I'm in the US.) Thx again.

[@Buyutdemangbirdfarm]

Thanks for your content I like beautiful bird

[@rev.cherylgrice3780]

There's a bird down the street that's VERY vocal, with an up and down and all-around sound that I just couldn't identify! I know we have Robins here most of the time (central Indiana) but you really don't see a lot of them after springtime...but yeah, finally identified that darn bird, it's a Robin! Just the trilling part, not the harsher part that you hear early in spring...so it was a challenge!

[@tractortrio7763]

I've heard all of them.

[@arleneandrus6545]

Thanks!

[@BadgerlandBirding]

Thank you!

[@smlorrin]

That's the fluffiest American Robins I've ever seen. The ones around me are long and sleek.

[@chrisstian5729]

That one in the picture looked like it had its winter coat on 8)

[@4rg3s]

I had a super chubby one that looked like a ball in my backyard last summer. It took over the water bowl I put out there all day long. Bathed, groomed, sat inside the bowl. So I put another one out for other birds. Then it started walking back and forth from both and tried to snuggled other birds away.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

​@@4rg3s now inquiring minds want to know: what if you had THREE? What's the bird bath vanishing point?

[@4rg3s]

@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 I couldn't afford the 3rd bird bath last summer lol I wanted to have a sand bath for birth, too. I did make a hanging bath for smaller birds.

[@pauraque]

Chipping Sparrow: Trill Dark-eyed Junco: Trill? Pine Warbler: Trill?!

[@mrzoinky5999]

Central BC, Canada here. My wife and I hear a bird (usually very early spring ... but not every year) that we jokingly call the Swedish bird. It goes something like this: Hurdy Verdy Gurdy .................................Hurdy Verdy Gurdy 😄 Have listened to many BC song bird sounds with no luck. And then in summer at night there is what we call the Monkey Owl - it sounds like an aggravated monkey , and then it ends in a soft, drawn out, owl "Whooooo" It's almost like some misplaced monkey is trying to convince us that they are actually an owl and so there is no need to investigate further. 😁

[@BadgerlandBirding]

I’m betting your “monkey owl” is a barred owl

[@mrzoinky5999]

@@BadgerlandBirding Just listened to that after your suggestion; that is very close - so I think you are right - thanks! From what I am learning, not all birds of the same species do the EXACT same sound, and so I think the one around here has thrown in another sharper note or something.

[@MoparRob440]

Thank you! I've been trying to figure out what makes that distinctive sound I kept hearing. It was the Brown Headed Cowbird "Bubble Z" but it's much prettier sounding in person.

[@sherryweeks5956]

Have mourning doves outside your bedroom window. Wild.

[@fullercrowley]

This is cool, thanks. My springtime chickadees say "Heeeey, sweetie!" :)

[@valoksein]

1. Indigo Bunting 2. White-throated Sparrow 3. Red-winged Blackbird 4. Song Sparrow 5. Northern Flicker 6. Rose-breasted Grosbeak 7. Ruby-crowned Kinglet 8. Chipping Sparrow 9. Eastern Towhee 10. White-crowned Sparrow 11. Yellow-rumped Warbler 12. American Robin 13. Eastern Bluebird 14. Chimney Swift 15. Northern Cardinal 16. Baltimore Oriole 17. Dark-eyed Junco 18. Brown Thrasher 19. Eastern Phoebe 20. Golden-crowned Kinglet 21. Common Yellowthroat 22. Brown-headed Cowbird 23. Eastern Meadowlark 24. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 25. Scarlet Tanager 26. Hermit Thrush 27. Tree Swallow 28. Black-capped Chickadee 29. House Wren 30. Gray Catbird

[@staufferfamily9629]

This was great! Thanks!🙂

[@Rubydrawz]

I had no idea I had so many critters that live near me❤

[@perkututklangenanchannel7514]

Wow.. I wanna it.. 😅

[@boredwarlock5216]

Eastern Towhee is definitely saying, "Flav-Or-FLAV!" [airhorn]

[@TheFairSherry]

I must be very unimaginative. I hear the words he says in VERY few of these bird calls

[@jjwallnutts]

I wish I could identify one in my backyard I always hear. Sounds like “oowee oowee Knuk knuk knuk”

[@makaylaokane3756]

I live near some railroad tracks next to an alley. I've heard Gray Catbirds walking down that road

[@Beetle5002]

Had a flicker that made a sound that sounded similar to a seagull so if you hear a seagull sound but it's closer sounding it might be a flicker

[@tawnyanderson3582]

I live in Pennsylvania, today leaving work i heard a bird and it had a call that sounded like it was laughing.. cant say i have heard them around here a lot i guess the closes i have can think is the Flicker one .... but the bird i saw had a solid cream color belly... was looking for the type of bird.. i do love birds but i live in the city so... i love the cat birds they are Sssoooo social... i talk to them... the cardinals are bossy they sit at my door and yell at me when the food is gone...

[@OntarioBirding7538]

The golden crowned kinglet has a song too, it is a couple high notes that then turns into a fast high pitched jumble

[@etchkeiesem]

Can someone please tell me if the sound at 8:50-8:51 is really from tree swallows? Or is it a background noise from another bird? I am actually looking for a specific bird sound that I have loved hearing for a while now and I think it's this one, but I searched for tree swallows and haven’t heard the same sound again.

[@BadgerlandBirding]

Sounds like there is a Henslow’s Sparrow singing in the background. Could that be it?

[@etchkeiesem]

@@BadgerlandBirding thanks for the response! I’ll try finding it out.

[@OntarioBirding7538]

@@BadgerlandBirdingthere is a melodic whistle during the timestamp. I heard the henslows sparrow before the sound

[@pattidean4109]

I've watched both of your videos and still haven't heard one that sounds like a bird in my yard. I live in the suburbs of Richmond, Virginia and we have some species of bird that is a talker. It sounds like they're repeating a word over and over. For quite a while we had a bird that said, "KEIF-er, KEIF-er." Now there's one that says, "tri-nit-Y, tri-nit-Y." I haven't been able to spot it but I love hearing it talk!

[@BadgerlandBirding]

My guess would be Alder Flycatcher and Carolina Wren respectively

[@ingriddurden3929]

only got the towhee, and chickadees. Plenty of others, peewees, flycatchers, titmouse, carolina wren, at least 2 different woodpeckers, I think dawny, and the pileated, great horned owl, blue jays, craws and several large birds, probably hawks. Forgot some I am sure. Middle GA.

[@Freshly_Gaming]

I luv fhe black capped chicadee

[@dadehalcyon9856]

Beautiful. They sound like nature's fireworks.

[@Idcenoug-h]

TPB reference for the win! 😅