Learn Bird Calls

Is a math professor’s website a weird place to find bird calls? Maybe, but this free site provides song recordings for 25 different bird groups in New York. Many of these birds live outside New York too, so this is a decent general list for the northeastern US.

The Birding by Ear CD set walks you through 85 eastern US bird species. Not just a monotonous list, the set has a narrator who explains what to listen for in each call so you can tell even similar-sounding birds apart.

Larkwire isn’t free, but it’s perhaps the most interactive way to learn bird identification and bird songs. Larkwire’s game format tests your knowledge and changes based on your answers to make your practice time more efficient. Use its free trial to see if it might work for you.