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White-throated Sparrow: Whistler of the North
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- čas přidán 9. 02. 2010
- Perhaps of the most beautiful sparrow song of all is that of the White-throated Sparrow, a handsome species that breeds in northern areas where spruce and fir trees abound. The song of the male is simple yet elegant. It is composed of clear, pure whistles. There is usually a noticeable pitch change at the beginning of each song (after the first or second note) and most songs end with two or three triplets-whistles that are composed of three obvious pulses.
Individual males sing only one stereotyped song pattern, and neighboring males may sing noticeably different songs. The cadence of one common song pattern is revealed by two popular memory phrases: My Sweet, Canada, Canada, Canada and Old Sam Peabody, Peabody, Peabody.
The video footage was gathered in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. The setting was an open parkland dotted with patches of Balsam Fir and Black Spruce.
© 2010 Lang Elliott & Bob McGuire
The Music of Nature
musicofnature.org
Many years ago, my wilderness loving husband pointed out that this beautiful call, heard in the large city we live in, was compliments of a white-throated sparrow. He passed away 4 years ago, and with him went many other things I loved, like wilderness camping, canoeing, kayaking, sitting around a campfire . . . But every spring the first white-throated sparrow call I hear tugs at my heart strings and reminds me of all the ways he enriched my life. The first one, and every one thereafter.
What a lovely memory.
@@johnvadenais472 The irony is, I grew up on a farm in rural Manitoba (Canada) and he grew up in the beautiful city of Prague (in what was then Communist Czechoslovakia) and yet he was the one who knew what a white throated sparrow sounded like. 😯
@@lindaj171 I am still waiting to hear one this spring here in RI, only a brief period of time before they migrate further north. Although this is a terrific video, it is almost too sharp and clear. From a distance this little sparrow's song is mesmerizing.
@@johnvadenais472 I can hear one calling outside as I read your message. ❤️🇨🇦
Sorry for your loss
Has taken me over 2 years to finally ID the bird singing this beautiful song. I frequently hear it but never spot the performer until this afternoon.
They are mostly ground scratching birds, under my pine trees, I'm curious as to where they nest.
Omg! It also has taken me just about 2 years to. Figure out this bird!
Wow. 100 people clicked on "thumbs down" because they didn't like a bird. You can't fix stupid. What a beautiful song!
Four years ago (2020) viewers could see the thumbs down number.
@@mademsoisellerhapsody Indeed
Our favorite call of all time. My wife and I live in the White Mountains in western Maine and this song practically brings tears to our eyes, reminding us in each mournful note of why we moved here 40 years ago.
Finally found it! My husband thought it was a human whistling. 😆
It took me so long to find this too!!!!! I googled forever!!! For months.
Same!! 😂
I thought it was magic..a magical war song I never heard but longed for all my life..
I thought a neighbor was messing with me! :)
Someone around here was answering with a harmony..it was nice
The most beautiful bird call in the world.
All sparrows are song birds.
Take time to listen to the different songs they sing, you'll enjoy it.😊
I think the Northern Cardinal is the best.
It is a very nice song. Try finding a wood thrush singing on here, they sound like they're using a flute!
For years I've wondered which bird made this beautiful song. So happy to finally know! I love hearing it.
Antarian, I have been looking to identify the performer of this song for over a year now. I am relieved to finally know the culprit!
AntarianChick
I heard this bird singing when i went treeplanting in north ontario.
I just played this in my backyard and my local birds started to sing the same song I knew this is what it was0
Me too
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This beautiful singing bird wakes me up every morning here in NYC...I was trying to figure out which bird it was for three months now...THANK YOU!!!
anchornomore I’m from Memphis and it use to do the same for me
Me too! Rural Ohio. & now that I know what the sparrows looks like ( from vocal ID & this video) I see them eating sunflower seeds off the ground under my feeders! Lovely ♥️😍
@@che24vy I'm hearing it just before daybreak here in Northwest AL. It's the end of April now. Such a sweet sound!
I just heard it for the first time in NYC. So beautiful
I just heard this bird outside Blackfalds, for the first time in my life. I was in awe! When I got the kids to bed tonight I spent about an hour looking for it online. So pumped when I found this! Thanks for posting.
These comments are so encouraging. I thought I was the only one who really cared. Thank you.
We had a camp on a lake in northern NH and would hear these all summer, Now live in the pine barrens of NJ and hear them in the spring on their way north. They remind me of my late father who loved their song.
Heard this in my backyard in South Carolina and have been trying to find this bird forever. Found it on a Cornell app for bird watching, finally.
These little birds live behind my house in a wooded area. A small creek runs through the wooded area and it soothes the mind to hear them sing in the morning. I like to take a drink, go out on the back porch and chill. In the wintertime, I can listen to these recordings. Thanks for posting them.
We have one in our backyard and everyone said I was crazy because I said that a bird was singing Baby Shark. They finally heard it yesterday and now I know what kind of bird it is. I have not seen it yet because we gave a lot of trees but they are so cute.
😂😂😂😂It does sound like Baby shark. That's funny.
The sound of summer in Northern Ontario, Canada. Thanks for the video, beautiful.
I have been dying to know which bird was making this beautiful sound in my backyard. I am from NJ and hear this little sweety throughout the day. I always said it sounded like the whistle from the Hunger Games.
DeMartino
Exactly. I’m in MD and this is the little Mockingjay we’ve been hearing. I swear ours whistles back if you try to imitate it.
ME TOO OMG
In Québec we usually sing along "M'as-tu vue Frédérick Frédérick Frédérick" which translates to "Have you seen me Frederick Frederick Frederick"
I live in Birmingham Al, and when i was 11 years old i would set on the front porch and just listen to this bird sing this song, it seemed like when ever i would listen i would hear him sing, Im 53 now and i have always wonted to hear this bird sing to me again, a few mos, ago, i was walking across the court house park and there it was, i heard it i wonted to just stay there and listen to him all day.
These lovely little songbirds are also abundant in the beautiful Piney Woods of Eastern Texas. I have heard them all of my life but only recently learned the species.. As a musician--the song is an ascending minor third, followed (usually) by a descending minor third. So very beautiful. We often hear them in conunction with Bob White Quail.. What a chorus of Nature!
Thank you! I hear this sparrow all the time in the trees but have never seen it. Love their call. It sounds so sad, like they're calling for their lost puppy.
I spent a rather long time hunting down what bird sang this beautiful song. It was always my favorite, and I consider it to be a song of my childhood. It always makes me feel home. I am a native of St. Louis, Missouri.
I'm in Maryland and this bird sings out back my house every day! I have been trying to identify it for dayss. I just found it by typing in "Bird that sounds like baby shark"
I heard this yesterday and thought some stranger was on my front lawn and got up to look
Playing this on my porch. Got a chorus going in the woods outside. Score!
Finally! Ive been trying to id this bird for a year. It comes every spring to Missouri. So cool!!
ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SPARROWS! GREAT FOOTAGE!
Thank you!! We kept hearing this pretty song and couldn’t see the bird to tell where it was coming from! My husband says it sounds like they are singing “Baby Shark”! 😂
Lol I came here trying to figure out what bird was in my backyard singing Baby Shark
So beautiful singing her little heart out❤️😄
These guys are adorable. I'm still hearing them here in Maryland. I thought they'd be gone North by now.
All i want is a remix of this song
hahahahahahahaha
It's lovely as it is.
beautiful white throat Sparrows
CeriseArt It sounds the best in its natural form/original
I'll snap this bastardly birds neck why don't they thuk off out of ones garden bloody bothersome shitting machines!
Stunningly beautiful, not only the bird song but the response away in the distance, thank you Lang and Bob.
I used to tree plant way out in the Northern Ontario forests of Canada and I would always mimic this bird! Never knew what it was. I am from Australia, but I just moved back over to North America, to New York and I was outside the other day and I heard it again! I had to learn what it was, I am so happy that I can identify it now 😍 Absolutely beautiful
What a delight! Fills my heart with joy hearing his song...
"Whiiiiite Throoooat - ted Sparrow-bird Sparrow-bird"
i like that one :)
and a great way to remember it's name.. thanks for embedding that in my memory ... lol
Lol
Thank you for enlightening me....walking the bush so much, imitating the whistle of the White-throated Sparrow...FINALLY I KNOW.
Ta...Jonathan
This bird song has long been my favourite of all bird calls. For me, it's permanently associated with the pleasures of growing up in the fields and bush of Quebec and Ontario, Canada. I've used this bird call as the intro and closing 'music' for my videos.
- Martin
I laughed when I read where the bird is saying my sweet Canada,Canada Canada so funny. I think the cardinals song is pretty,pretty, pretty, pretty pretty 😂. I have been trying to identify this birds song for a long time . My mom used to mimic the call but she has passed 😢. I can now play it and it makes me think of her.❤
this always reminds me of walking home drunk at 6 in the morning.
I hear this call high in tree tops in the spring. I have mimicked it and tried to figure out what bird it was for years...finally I know. It reminds me of my childhood, playing outdoors.
Recorded it/s song this morning in my yard. I have been hearing it for years and finally have it identified thanks to you! Near Charleston SC in the Francis Marion National Forest.
Ricky Wrenn I'm in Mt Pleasant and have been trying to figure out the identity of these shrub flutters, too. I had never heard them sing until this morning.. I was so mesmerized by what I heard that I did not think to record. I can't wait for these Northerners to breed and come back! Amazing!
I have a home in the Laurentians and we hear these babies every day!
I hear this bird often where I live in Pennsylvania. We call back and forth.
I’m in NORFOLK, VA I hear this everyday and had no idea what it was. Thanks!
Tennessee here. Me too.
I never paid much attention to birds, but I love these little guys. I have one nesting outside my window now. When it's chilly out, their song slows down and lowers in pitch, so you know - as soon as they wake up - how cold it is out there. Otherwise they seem happy as can be tweeting away all day. So cute.
Scientists have discovered that this bird has changed its song over the last 9 years. Apparently they don't sound like this anymore. Weird
The "new" song pattern (with doublets at the ending, rather than triplets) is working its way down from Canada, but I don't think it has yet taken over in regions such as the Adirondacks. Note that there has always been variations between individuals and I have many examples of odd songs in my recording collection. In fact, even while I was recording in the 90s, I had trouble finding solid examples of the "classic" pattern.
I have heard a version of this song in the north woods of Wisconsin. The song I hear has a extra note a little "vibrato" at the end. AND some I've heard in the same area have a reverse scale. I though I was imagining it.
char bean exactly
They do in my backyard 😀!
I found it! I hear this call all the time and I love imitating it by whistling. Such a pretty bird
never knew sparrows sings and sings so lovelyl
When I used to go to Northern Ontario, this was the birdcall that everyone loved
I love this sound! I had also been wondering which bird made it. Right now I'm hearing it out my window. Love it.
Thank you for sharing have been on the search for two years now! Brings me so much joy thank you
This clock downstairs with birds for the numbers made this sound ever hour on the hour.
I hear them from my window in the winter. It's beautiful. And I live in New York City
What a beautiful bird!
I think this is amazing footage, because I know it's not the easiest thing to get this kind of prolonged close up, in the right light,; made even more difficult if they're singing 'way up in the tree tops. The White-throated sparrow 's song is like a calll to my spirit; when I hear it sing, no matter where I am, nor what state of being I'm in, for just a moment's grace, I feel like I am in touch with the essence of who I am. So what I thrill to see it captured so well ! I was entranced, transfixed,... So thank you so much!
Beautiful shot. clear sound and video. Thank you for uploading.
This is one of my favorite birds to listen to while I'm out in the woods.
love the sound of the ruffed grouse drumming in the background!
My favorite bird noise. I finally found it after like what? 8 years.
Awesome sound and video--THANKS!
Love it.my sparrows here all come down to flock
.in my garden
Sounded like a human! We've lived here in Massachusetts for 9 years and then NH the rest of my life and NEVER heard one until now! So glad I found it!
I wake up every morning in the Spring to these beautiful songsters... to me it sounded like, "I-Love-You, I do, I do, I do, I do"... I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
So beautiful is creation.
I’ve been trying to identify the bird that makes this beautiful song and now I finally found it after 20 years. Thank you
Phenomenal clarity both video and audio. Thanks!
Oh how beautiful! 💛
When I went to school in Connecticut, I would hear these birds when walking to class. During breaks, I would sit outside and listen to these cuties until I fell asleep. They are my favorite birds. ✨✨✨🥰
I live in central Alabama and just took photos of one of these beautiful birds by our fence.
LOve this very much. I miss it
Such Crystal Clear Clarity In Every Aspect.
Love that bird ❤
In love with this baby...all songbirds.
I'd never seen these little birds until about a month ago when a few of them decided to stay in our yard. They're absolutely gorgeous birds and their songs are mesmerizing.
Thanks for the video, beautiful singing bird !👌
How wonderful and beautiful is thy mind my Lord! How magnificent are thy ways! Thy love is eternal, thy wisdom is eternal and thy beauty is eternal! Give me the ability and I shall praise thee greater than the angels my Lord! Great God!
I've been looking for this! Great clip!
This is my favorite song birds love the white - throat sparrow one of the best song birds
great video.
Happy birding.
Amazing that such a small bird can make such a loud noise.
They are migrating through our area in Virginia now. I always hear them spring and fall in this locale and they remind me of happy childhood summers spent on Squirrel Island in Maine.
Unbelievably cute!!Thanks for this
Just heard this today again since May of 2020. ITS SPRING BABY!!!!!
Wonderful - thankyou so much for these wonderful videos.
I have these birds in my backyard in NJ, and was happy to identify which they were by their sweet song.
Hearing these guys a lot this spring and saw quite a few at my feeders this winter too. I've also been noticing a lot more cardinals.
Missouri also has these. Beautiful sounds
One flew into my window today. We kept him in a bird cage, and he stayed for 4 hours. When he got more active, I opened the door. He flew to some shrubs near my house... I hope he recovers. I tried to stay out there to see if he would fly higher. In the end, I left it to God. He sure was cute.
Love that sweet little song. I never get tired of hearing it. Even first thing in the morning. Thank you for posting.
One of our favorite things about winter in southeast Texas is having these guys visit for a few months. Their songs out in the distant trees is so delightful. Rarely do we get a glimpse without binoculars and a keen ear. Great footage.
Lovely! By far my favourite bird.
Noisy critters when you are camping and they are up at 430am.
Beautiful song from nature....
When I was young, I used to get angry because it would always wake me up. Now that I am old, I get angry because it puts me to sleep.
very beautiful song of soul comforting. thanks for the share.
My favourite bird call..Growing up n Northern Ontario, we used to hear them all the time at the camp or in back yards..Thanks!
Sounds exactly like what I heard today and helped me ID my very poor photo of some sparrow in a tree. Thanks for the video!!
I just figured out that this bird is the one I hear in the mornings. Beautiful song
Hello, I placed your video in my blog. It is absolutely devine.
Finally, I found out which cute little bird I was hearing early in the morning near my house, here in Illinois! I actually managed to catch a glimpse of one as I biked past the small tree it sat in. wasn't able to see it well enough, but I at least knew to research songs/calls of small birds. I spent the past 2(?) hours using the website for my village's bird habitat to narrow down the species.
Saw a large group of them rummaging through the leaf litter in Prospect Park, Brooklyn today. I could swear they were saying "what are you lookin' at?".
Great I found this video. I've been hearing this guy 24/7. For some reason I can picture a cartoon bird wearing a top hat and swinging his cane as he whistles this song as we walks down the street. lol