bird calls
Songs from branches
Bird calls are the sounds birds make to communicate—songs, chirps, whistles, and cries used for mating, warning, or marking territory.
The term also refers to devices that imitate these sounds, used by hunters to attract game or by birdwatchers to draw species into view: He used a duck call to lure them closer.
To identify birds by their calls is a prized skill among naturalists.
- birdwatchingObserving wild avians recreationally
- field guidePortable species identification manual
- ornithologyScientific study of birds
- dawn chorusBirds' collective sunrise singing
- mimicryAdaptive resemblance to another
pitch · passerines · wild birds · song · nature sounds · forest sounds · hoot · caw · chirp · whistle · screech · seasonal variation · squawk · morning · warbling · trill · branches · species identification
- ornithologyornithology, ornithologist, birding, plumage, feathers
- bird miscellanystrange birds
- soundssound, beeps, listen, sounds, hear
- rainforestrainforest, jungle, tropical, tropics, canopy
- animal callsribbit, peep, croak, chirrup, wolf howl
- birdwatchingbirdwatchers, ornithologists, binoculars, field guides, nesting boxes
bird callscar horns
Vehicle warning signals
sirens · industrial noise · factory noise · traffic noise · ringtones
bird callssilence
Total lack of sound
dead silence · stillness · quiet · hush · soundlessness