The Sedge Wren is a small, russet coloured energetic songbird found breeding in fields and shallow marshes in many parts of inland North America.
Their song consists of several dry-sounding chirps followed by a short trill. Unlike other wren species they tend to be more shy, and without their loud song, can easily go unnoticed.
This episode we will be exploring Taquanyah Conservation Area near Cayuga Ontario, in May of 2022.
Credits
Songbirding: Species in Focus is a Songbirding Studios production.
Recorded, engineered, narrated and created by Rob Porter.
The Songbirding cover art (Blackburnian Warbler) is by Lauren Helton: https://tinylongwing.carbonmade.com/projects/5344062
Creative Commons music is from Universfield.
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Species In Focus: Marsh Wren
The Marsh Wren is a small, brownish, energetic songbird found in wetlands across a large swath of North America.
Their song is a mix of harsh trills, gurgles, and buzzes. And, like most wren species, are much louder than their small size might suggest.
This episode we will be exploring Taquanyah Conservation Area near Cayuga Ontario, first on two dates in 2024, then in the conclusion you’ll hear a surprise I found there in May of 2022.
Credits
Songbirding: Species in Focus is a Songbirding Studios production.
Recorded, engineered, narrated and created by Rob Porter.
The Songbirding cover art (Blackburnian Warbler) is by Lauren Helton: https://tinylongwing.carbonmade.com/projects/5344062
Creative Commons music is from Universfield.
Learn how to support the show at https://songbirding.com/support
Support Songbirding: A Birding-by-ear Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/songbirding
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Species in Focus: Orchard Oriole
In the upcoming special episodes I’m going to feature songbird species who fit three criteria: that I have plenty of recordings of them, that I have not significantly featured them before, and that they are not likely to be featured in the next season of Songbirding because they do no occur in the west, or have not shown up significantly in my western recordings as of right now.
The Orchard Oriole has a curious song. Much like the Baltimore Oriole, each bird might have a slightly different song, with their own unique phrases.
This songbird has quite a varied appearance, with lemony-yellow females, and males with two plumages: one of a yellow bird with a black beard, typically seen in the second year of the bird’s life, followed up with a more mature plumage of a dark back and hood with what I like to refer to as a blood-orange chest, though some describe this more as a chestnut colour. Either way, the older males are quite a dark bird.
I find that the Orchard Oriole usually sounds like it is frequently interrupting its own whistle-y songs with terse, harsh interjections. And to my ears, sounds almost like an Eastern Warbling Vireo, except that it is interrupting its own songs.
For this episode we’ll be exploring three locations within my Ontario breeding bird atlas square, in Haldimand County, Ontario. I’ve found over the years of this survey that this species is highly successful in Haldimand, showing up in a high proportion of my random point count surveys.
Credits
Songbirding: Species in Focus is a Songbirding Studios production.
Recorded, engineered, narrated and created by Rob Porter.
The Songbirding cover art (Blackburnian Warbler) is by Lauren Helton: https://tinylongwing.carbonmade.com/projects/5344062
Creative Commons music is from Universfield.
Learn how to support the show at https://songbirding.com/support
Support Songbirding: A Birding-by-ear Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/songbirding
This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-da20d0 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Songbirding: A Birding-by-ear Podcast.
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S6E47 - Allegheny Dusk, Part 2 (Swainson's Thush; season finale)
We conclude with the finale hike of the season, listening to Swainson's Thrushes, and more.
Credits
Songbirding: The Allegheny National Forest is a Songbirding Studios production.
Recorded, engineered, narrated and created by Rob Porter.
The Songbirding cover art (Blackburnian Warbler) is by Lauren Helton: https://tinylongwing.carbonmade.com/projects/5344062
Creative Commons music is from Josh Woodward.
Learn how to support the show at https://songbirding.com/support
Support Songbirding: A Birding-by-ear Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/songbirding
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S6E46 - Allegheny Dusk, Part 1
On the last hike of the season, we return to Deer Lick Run for an evening birding hike.
Credits
Songbirding: The Allegheny National Forest is a Songbirding Studios production.
Recorded, engineered, narrated and created by Rob Porter.
The Songbirding cover art (Blackburnian Warbler) is by Lauren Helton: https://tinylongwing.carbonmade.com/projects/5344062
Creative Commons music is from Josh Woodward.
Learn how to support the show at https://songbirding.com/support
Support Songbirding: A Birding-by-ear Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/songbirding
This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-da20d0 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Songbirding: A Birding-by-ear Podcast.
Take a unique auditory journey through the habitats of songbirds in North America. Guided by naturalist and field recordist Rob Porter, the Songbirding podcast is an audio nature documentary, taking you on guided hikes while identifying the songs of dozens of songbird species. Entirely recorded in the field, you won't hear any other podcast quite like this.
Three-time nominated as Best Science Podcast in the Canadian Podcast Awards.
The seasons focus on, in order -- 1: Bruce Peninsula, Ontario; 2: Southern Ontario; 3: Southern Ontario; 4: Mid-western & Southern Ontario; 5: Johnston Harbour, Ontario; 6: Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania; 7: Kananaskis Country, Alberta (forthcoming, in editing); 8: All Across Canada (forthcoming, in pre-production)
For those with high-frequency hearing loss, please search for "Songbirding Under 5kHz".
Credits
Recorded, engineered, narrated and created by Rob Porter.
Cover art by Lauren Helton - https://tinylongwing.carbonmade.com/
Support the show at https://songbirding.com/support
No "generative AI" is used in the production of Songbirding. Some machine learning tools such as Merlin Bird ID and BirdNET (which are sometimes marketed as "AI"-based) are used for birdsong identification and sorting of raw recordings to aid in the production process.
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