Birdsong for the
Curious Naturalist

Red-winged blackbird

Chapter 5: More about Song Learning
Subchapter: Song (and call) dialects
From page 70 in the book.

♫325. Colorado call dialect. June 16, 2008. Hotchkiss, Colorado. (9:05)

♫326. Illinois call dialect, calls excerpted from longer sequence of songs and calls. May 30, 2008. Levee Road, Neunert, Illinois. (0:37)

♫327. Michigan call dialect, excerpted from a long dawn sequence.

♫328. Or, for a you-are-there experience, listen to how these excerpted calls iin ♫327 are used throughout the entire dawn chorus in ♫328. May 4, 2017. Atlanta, Michigan. (1:46, 57:07)

♫329. A California song dialect, showing the homogeneity of songs from males in a resident population, with examples of the local call dialect as well. March 18, 2017. Harmony Headlands State Park, Cayucos, California. (2:49)

See also Explore 33. Call matching by male red-winged blackbirds.