This recording of a mixed chorus of the three species of 17-year cicadas features the wild songs of Magicicada septendecula. Apparently, this is the more rare species of the three.

WH21T - 091 Magicicada Septendecula Song Washington Co MD 01.WAV

part of recording of Brown Creeper
Lower Harbor Trail
Schoodic District, Acadia National Park
Winter Harbor, ME
Recorded w AudioMoth

Image by Laura Gooch via CC: BY-NC-SA 2.0




Edited Partial 20210602 091604 BRCR

Brown Creeper 060221 1330pm

An adult male White-eyed Vireo singing very pretty songs. Some of his songs are the most complex of any White-eyed Vireo I have heard. At the end of this recording, he sings rambling songs. These are typically sung to his mate when she is ready to lay an egg.

White-eyed Vireo, Pretty Songs And Rambling Song

The last step in my process is taking the song components I can recognize by ear and adding them back into the Bobolink song.  I can easily recognize whose song I'm hearing. 

Bath Bobolink song simple to complex

This is a binaural recording (best listened to with headphones)of at least 3 Wood Thrush singing. Recorded at 8:14am on 8/6/2023 at Bolingbroke Park, Izak Walton League of America, Maryland Mid-shore Chapter), in Trappe. 

Partial recording. Full recording: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/600882911

WOTH 080623 814am 696

Photo by Laura Gooch (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

3 Wood Thrush Singing

200+ Tundra Swans at Elizabeth Hartwell Mason Neck National Wildlife Refuge at Great Marsh from Eagle Point at the end of the Woodlandmarsh Trail. 

Tundra Swans

A large group of Eastern Chipmunks (Tamias striatus) clucking (= their aerial predator alarm call), with drip from surrounding trees. 8am, 25 September, 2017, Shindagin Hollow near Brooktondale, New York. © Lang Elliott.

Now is the time of year when the woods are alive with chipmunks, busying themselves collecting beechnuts and acorns to cache in their burrows for the coming winter. Now is also a productive season for forest hawks, hoping to swoop down and snatch-up unwary chipmunks that are pre-occupied with gathering food. But what is most interesting for us nature-listeners is that chipmunks respond to hawk fly-bys with a special “aerial predator alarm call” … a hollow, resonant cluck … cluck … cluck … cluck … cluck … that is unmistakable.

For a more detailed explanation and additional recordings, please check out my latest blog post, "The Clucking Munks": https://musicofnature.com/the-clucking-munks/

Chipmunk Hawk Alarm Call

Ruby-crowned Kinglets were singing at edges of West Grove Park, and oak grove at River Towers, Alexandria, VA.

Marantz PMD561, Sennheiser ME62, & Telinga Parabola
RCKI 032420 0845am Short 1010

Photo credit: Laura Gooch  CC BY-NC-SA https://www.flickr.com/photos/lgooch/6121534609/in/photolist-8nhMbu-8nhKub-ajWsYa-ajZez3-ajZEey-ajWsqP-ajWrFX-ajVVPr/

Ruby-crowned Kinglet 032420

music video ---> https://youtu.be/Pn_7X22HxG8

Bird Beat

Two water boatman bugs vibrating their penises underwater.
Hidden Lake, Fahnestock State Park, May 1, 2020. Longer version.

Two Water Boatmen

Coyotes at CLNP

Listening in Nature: songs of birds, amphibians, and singing insects (crickets and katydids)

Bath Bobolink song simple to complex

Lisa Rainsong