1. Call website: http://www.enature.com/birding/audio.asp
Bird ID and calls
Call website:
LINK

2. Water birds/ near shore birds

3. Green heron (to 22”)
Green heron

4. Great blue heron (to 4.5 feet)

5. Belted kingfisher (not required)
Belted kingfisher, small fish and insect eaters…near water

6. Canada goose (to 43 inches) Call: A-RONK, A-RONK

7. Killdeer
To 12” Note two breast bands
Call: loud, repetitive KILL-DEE

8. Woodpeckers
And Misc

9. Downy woodpecker (to 6”)
Call: sharp, descending whinny and a single pick
Downy woodpecker (downy versus Hairy)
Hairy (to 10”)

10. Red bellied woodpecker (not required bird)

11. Wing and tail linings are yellow Up to 13”
Northern flicker
Northern flicker
Wing and tail linings are yellow
Up to 13”
Call: WICK, WICK, WICK OR WIK-A-WIK-A-WIK

12. Call: OOAHOO, COO, COO, COO
Mourning dove
Mourning dove
Call: OOAHOO, COO, COO, COO
Rock dove
“pigeon”

13. Ruby throated hummingbird

14. Birds of Prey

15. Swainson’s hawk
Red tailed hawk
Red shouldered

16. Distinct V shape when flying Red head
Turkey vulture
Distinct V shape when flying
Red head
Trailing half of wings are silvery
Turkey vulture

17. Golden eagle
Golden eagle

18. Bald eagle (with juvenile)

19. Perching Birds

20. Western kingbird (to 8”) Not required

21. Western/Eastern meadowlarks – not required
Western and eastern meadowlark (very similar looking)

22. American goldfinch
To 5”, fields

23. Purple martin (to 8”) Notice notch in tail (NOT REQUIRED)
Purple martins (blue/black)

24. Barn Swallow
(to 8”)
Note forked tail
Barn swallow

25. Scissor-tailed flycatcher Oklahoma state bird To 14”
Scissor tail flycatcher, state bird

26. Northern Mockingbird call is in triplets – mimics other songs To 11”

27. Call: CHEER, CHEER, CHEER, PERTY, PERTY, PERTY
Northern Cardinal
To 9”
Call: CHEER, CHEER, CHEER, PERTY, PERTY, PERTY
cardinal

28. American robin (CALL: CHEERY-UP, CHEERYDEE
Not to be confused with Baltimore oriole

29. CALL: musical warble, ending in a descending CHEER
House finch
CALL: musical warble, ending in a descending CHEER
House finch

30. Painted bunting – not required
Painted bunting, dense forests, often not seen
Painted bunting – not required

31. Summer tanager – not required
Summer tanagers
Summer tanager – not required

32. Compare with Painted bunting
Eastern Bluebird, to 7”
Eastern bluebird
Compare with Painted bunting

33. To 14”, note crest; Call is a loud, harsh JAY, JAY
Blue jay
To 14”, note crest; Call is a loud, harsh JAY, JAY
Blue jay

34. Indigo bunting – not required

35. Carolina wren to 6”. Note white eyebrow stripe and upward tail
Call: TEA KETTLE, TEA KETTLE, TEA KETTLE

36. (to 4.5”) Call: CHIC-A-DEE, DEE, DEE
Carolina chickadee
(to 4.5”) Call: CHIC-A-DEE, DEE, DEE
Carolina chickadee

37. White breasted nuthatch (to 6”, creeps head down, down a tree)
Call: ANNK, ANNK
White breasted nuthatch. Creeps head down down tree (mature forests), extra long claws for grasping.

38. Gray catbird (to 9”) Note black cap
Gray Cat bird (rust colored under tail, black cap)

39. Ruby crowned kinglet (to 3.5 inches) (NOT REQUIRED)
Ruby crowned kinglet very small. In US only smaller bird are the hummingbirds inches

40. Call is Peter-peter-peter
Tufted titmouse
(to 6”)
Tufted titmouse. Mate for life
Call is Peter-peter-peter

41. House Sparrow Call is a repeated Chirp, Chirp, Chirp (to 6”)

42. Perching Birds
“Black Birds”

43. Common grackle (to 14”) Call is a harsh, nasal SPI-KANK also, CHUCK
Brown headed cow bird
Red winged blackbird
Great tailed grackle (to 18”)

44. Brewer’s Blackbird (to 9 in)
American Crow (To 22”)
Call is distinct “caw”
European Starling
(to 8”)