On Saturday of January 7, we watched HM and HD respond to alarm calls issued by the local neighborhood crow watch. Alarm calls convey information with pitch, volume, bandwidth, repetition, duration, inflection, and sound. Most of us are familiar with a chickadee’s ‘chick-a-dee-dee-dee’ alarm call: a social signal that tells other chickadees to rally in the vicinity of the predator – usually a perched bird of prey – and join in a chorus or mob of calling. The number of ‘dees’ conveys information

Behind every bird sound is a message. Some are warnings, some love songs, and others are just saying, “Yo! Get off my lawn!” Join me as we decode the sounds of the American Robin and learn to understand what this familiar bird is really saying.🎶 If you live in North America you probably heard robins your whole life without thinking twice. But once you learn what their calls mean, it changes the way you experience their sounds. You’ll start to hear conversations.🦉More bird sound IDs to come. Th