Allen's Hummingbird
Does not sing. Calls -- buzzy; also sharp chips

American Crow
Crows have more than 20 calls. The most common, a harsh caw, has several qualities and lengths that may serve different purposes. Immature begging young American Crows give a higher-pitched, nasal call that can sound like a Fish Crow. You may also hear a variety of calls and alert calls given to rally others to mob predators.

American Robin
The musical song of the American Robin is a familiar sound of spring. It’s a string of 10 or so clear whistles assembled from a few often-repeated syllables, and often described as cheerily, cheer up, cheer up, cheerily, cheer up. The syllables rise and fall in pitch but are delivered at a steady rhythm, with a pause before the bird begins singing again. At dawn, the song is more rapid. American Robins often make a mumbled cuck or tuk to communicate with each other or a sharp yeep or peek as an alarm call.

Anna's Hummingbird
Anna’s Hummingbirds have a distinctive song that is long for a hummingbird (10 seconds or more). It's a series of buzzes, then a clearer, more tuneful whistle, followed by more emphatic chip notes; then the bird may repeat the whole set of buzz-whistle-chip sounds. It may not sound like it could be coming from a hummingbird, but once you learn to recognize it this can be a very good way to locate singing males. Calls are a series of short, sharp chip notes that may be given one at a time or one after another to make a twittering sound. "

Black-headed Grosbeak
The Black-headed Grosbeak's whistled song rises and falls like an American Robin's, but it’s longer, sweeter, more varied, and less choppy in its phrases. It's sometimes likened to that of a "drunk" or "operatic" robin. Both males and females sing. The female's song is usually shorter, simpler, and quieter. She sings less frequently than the male, usually from the nest. The Black-headed Grosbeak's typical call is a sharp spik uttered frequently to keep contact with mates while foraging.

Black Phoebe
Male Black Phoebes sing a long series of repeated tee-hee tee-hoo notes to defend territories and attract mates. Black Phoebes give tsip calls throughout the year during flight, foraging, and predator interactions. When chasing mates or intruders, they give a tweedle-deedle-eek call. During the breeding season males address females with soft, wheezy chatters. "

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Song -- soft, warbling, complex series of rambling jumbles. Call -- a thin, nasal "spee." "

Bullock's Oriole
Song -- a series of rich whistled notes interspersed with rattles. Call -- a chatter. "

Bushtit
Bushtits make several kinds of short, high, wispy contact calls or chip notes. These help group members know where lockmates are. They can intensify to indicate nesting activities or when mobbing predators or confronting opponents. Individuals that get separated from a group make a rapid series of high-pitched chip notes that carries well.

California Towhee
The song is given only by male California Towhees and is made up of repetitions of the bird’s metallic chip note. Songs typically start with a few well-spaced notes that rapidly accelerate into a trill and then stop abruptly. The whole song typically lasts 1-2 seconds. The most frequently heard sound from California Towhees is a clear, metallic chip, similar to the sound of a Northern Cardinal (and also to the California ground squirrel). Males and females may call intermittently or in a monotonous string of chips every couple of seconds. When birds are alarmed, the chipping rate may triple.

Cedar Waxwing
Cedar Waxwings have two common calls: a high-pitched, trilled bzeee and a sighing whistle, about a half-second long, often rising in pitch at the beginning. Cedar Waxwings call often, especially in flight. "

Common Peafowl
The loud and nasal may-awe call, uttered mostly at dawn and dusk, is a well-known sound in many parts of its natural and introduced range. In the wild, this call often betrays the presence of a nearby predator.

Common Raven
Common Ravens make many different kinds of calls varying from a low, gurgling croak to harsh grating sounds and shrill alarm calls. Scientists have placed their vocalizations into as many as 33 different categories based on sound and context. The most commonly heard is the classic gurgling croak, rising in pitch and seeming to come from the back of the throat. It’s much deeper and more musical than a crow’s simple, scratchy caw. Ravens make this call often. It’s audible for more than a mile, and ravens often give it in response to other ravens they hear in the distance. "

Common Yellowthroat
The male sings a distinctive witchety-witchety-witchety song, about 2 seconds long, to defend the territory and attract females. They give these songs very frequently during summer, averaging as high as 125 songs per hour and sometimes reaching 300 songs per hour. Both males and females give a strong chuck when potential predators approach. Males give an aggressive chatter call when other males are singing, and females give a fast series of chipping notes when they’re ready to mate.

Cooper's Hawk
Outside of the breeding season, Cooper’s Hawks tend to be silent. The most common call is a loud, grating cak-cak-cak, 2-5 seconds long, given by both sexes in defense of the nest. This call is also given during courtship. Males frequently make a kik call to tell their mates where they are; females make this call too, but less often. Females make a whaa call when approaching or receiving food from males.

Dark-eyed Junco
Male Dark-eyed Juncos sing an even, musical trill of 7-23 notes that lasts up to 2 seconds. It’s similar to the songs of both the Chipping Sparrow and the Pine Warbler, and is loud enough to be heard from several hundred feet away. Both sexes sing a much quieter song as well, a series of whistles, trills, and warbles that may sound like an American Goldfinch. This song typically doesn’t carry any farther than about 40 feet. Juncos have a high, short chip note that they often give in rapid succession when they fly and more slowly as they forage; the note may encourage other juncos to follow.

Downy Woodpecker
The Downy Woodpecker’s whinnying call, made by both sexes, is a typical sound of deciduous forests during the breeding season. It’s a somewhat excited string of hoarse, high-pitched notes that descend in pitch toward the end; the call lasts about 2 seconds. Excited birds also give a very sharp pik note, occasionally repeated several times. Both sexes drum on trees to claim territories, attract mates, and signal readiness for mating.

European Starling
Starlings are relatives of the mynah birds, and like them they have impressive vocal abilities and a gift for mimicry. They can warble, whistle, chatter, make smooth liquid sounds, harsh trills and rattles, and imitate meadowlarks, jays, and hawks. The songs tend to consist of either loud whistles or softer, jumbled warbling. Whistled songs are a few seconds long, often used between males. Warbled songs can go on for more than a minute, and seem mainly directed at females. Males sing several varieties of each of these two classes of songs. Females also sing, particularly in the fall.

Fox Sparrow
Male Fox Sparrows sing a sequence of about a dozen rich, whistled notes lasting 2–3 seconds in all, usually from a concealed perch a few feet from the top of a spruce or fir tree. During summer they sing vigorously at any time from before dawn until long after dark, in fair weather or foul. Northern and eastern populations of Fox Sparrows sing one or two song types each, while western populations sing three or four. Western songs tend to be less rich and more burry than eastern songs. The female occasionally sings a softer, briefer version of the male’s song.

Golden-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrows have a song of several clear whistles, sliding downward in a melancholy phrase that’s sometimes described as “I’m so tired” or “oh, dear me.” Often, they add a trill to the end. Males sing from the treetops, rooftops, and the tops and edges of shrub thickets, mainly in the early breeding season but also at other times of year. Calls include a loud chink alarm call, three kinds of feeding calls (chip, churr, and plear plear plear) and a flat tchup. "

Great Horned Owl
Great Horned Owls advertise their territories with deep, soft hoots with a stuttering rhythm: hoo-h’HOO-hoo-hoo. The male and female of a breeding pair may perform a duet of alternating calls, with the female’s voice recognizably higher in pitch than the male’s. Young owls give piercing screams when begging for food, while adults may scream to defend the nest. Adults make an array of other sounds, including whistles, barks, shrieks, hisses, coos, and wavering cries. "

Hermit Thrush
The Hermit Thrush’s beautiful, haunting song begins with a sustained whistle and ends with softer, echo-like tones, described as oh, holy holy, ah, purity purity eeh, sweetly sweetly. It pauses between each phrase, and the song is about 1.5 seconds long. Hermit Thrushes also deliver an extremely faint “whisper song” in spring. The Hermit Thrush's most frequently heard call is a low-pitched tchup or quoit to signal attack or escape and a Cedar Waxwing-like eeee when in danger. "

House Finch
Male House Finches sing a long, jumbled warbling composed of short notes. The song often ends with an upward or downward slur, and lasts about 3 seconds. Males may sing throughout the year. Females sometimes give a shorter, simpler version of the song. Compared with Cassin’s and Purple finches, House Finch songs sound slower, rougher, and somewhat less fluid. The final slurred note is more often heard in House Finches than in the other two species. Male and female House Finch calls are a sharp cheep made often, including while perched and during flight.

House Wren
Both males and females sing. Males often sing 9-11 times per minute during breeding season. Songs are a long, jumbled bubbling introduced by abrupt churrs and scolds and made up of 12-16 recognizable syllables. Females sing mainly in answer to their mates shortly after pairing up; their songs can include high-pitched squeals unlike any sounds males make. House Wrens make a variety of harsh sounds: churrs, chatters, rattles, and scolds, often in response to large animals that might be predators. "

Hooded Oriole
Song -- a rapid, choppy series of warbles. Call --a sharp, nasal "wheet." Also a rolling, dry chatter. "

Lesser Goldfinch
The male’s breeding song is a jumble of clear notes mixed in with wheezes, trills, and stutters, lasting up to 10 seconds. Males incorporate snippets of the songs of many other species, including Ash-throated Flycatchers, Verdins, Curve-billed Thrashers, American Kestrels, Western Scrub-Jays, and many more. When mingling in a flock, Lesser Goldfinches make a very common contact call that’s wheezy and descending, given one or two notes at a time. They also give a couple of chit notes in flight. "

Mitred Parakeet
In flight it produces a high ringing kerEET. Call has been described as a harsh "weee weee", "cheeah cheeah."

Mourning Dove
The song (or “perch-coo”) is given mainly by unmated males from a conspicuous perch. It’s a soft coo-oo followed by two or three louder coos. You can often hear paired males give the three-parted “nest call” while nest-building: a coo-OO-oo, highest in the middle. Females sometimes call ohr ohr while sitting on the nest. "

Northern Flicker
Northern Flickers make a loud, rolling rattle with a piercing tone that rises and falls in volume several times. The call lasts 7 or 8 seconds and is quite similar to the call of the Pileated Woodpecker. You’ll hear it in the spring and early summer, while pairs are forming and birds are establishing their territories. Flickers also make a loud single-note call, often sounding like kyeer, about a half-second long. When birds are close together and displaying they may make a quiet, rhythmic wick-a, wick-a call.

Northern Mockingbird
Both male and female mockingbirds sing. They often mimic the sounds of birds (and frogs) around them, including shrikes, blackbirds, orioles, killdeer, jays, hawks, and many others. They go on learning new sounds throughout their lives. The song is a long series of phrases, with each phrase repeated 2-6 times before shifting to a new sound; the songs can go on for 20 seconds or more. Many of the phrases are whistled, but mockingbirds also make sharp rasps, scolds, and trills. "

Nutmeg Mannikin
Nutmet Mannikins form flocks of as many as 100 birds. Individuals communicate with calls that include a short whistle, variations of kitty-kitty-kitty, and a sharp chipping alarm note. They sometimes flick their tails and wings vertically or horizontally while hopping about.

Orange-crowned Warbler
Song -- a fast trill, changing in pitch at end. Call -- a sharp "chip." "

Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Song -- high-pitched, squeaky, and with three parts, "ps-SEET, ptsick, seet!" Call --a sharp "seet!" "

Red-breasted Nuthatch
Red-breasted Nuthatches sing a fast series of nasal, hornlike notes that sound like yank-yank. Songs can have 6 or more of these notes each, and the songs themselves can be repeated up to 16 times per minute. It’s unmated males that sing this most frequently. Males and females sometimes sing a similar but slower and harsher version of this song when they are defending their territory. The yank note can also be given as a call by both sexes (though more often by the male) as a way of communicating between the pair. "

Red-shouldered Hawk
A Red-shouldered Hawk’s most common call is a plaintive, rising whistle that sounds like kee-ahh. The call tends to be repeated 5–12 times, with each note lasting about half a second. Hawks use it to claim their territory and when alarmed. Female Red-shouldered Hawks sometimes give a soft kee call when on the nest. Call a loud "kee-aah," with second note descending in pitch. Often given repeatedly.

Red-tailed Hawk
Adults make a hoarse, screaming kee-eeeee-arr. It lasts 2-3 seconds and is usually given while soaring. During courtship, they also make a shrill chwirk, sometimes giving several of these calls in a row. "

Rock Pigeon
Song -- a rolling series of throaty coos accompanied by strutting, bowing, inflating the throat, and fanning the tail. Pigeons make a prolonged cooing sound at the nest when trying to attract a mate. When alarmed, pigeons utter a short grunting sound.

Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Male Ruby-crowned Kinglets sing a jumbled but distinctive song that builds to an incredibly loud ending when you consider how small these birds are. The song lasts about 5 seconds. It starts with soft, high notes that accelerate into a musical twittering, and then abruptly shifts into a loud series of 2- or 3-parted notes. The most common kinglet call is a harsh, fast, two-parted scold. They may also give a long, chattering series of short notes. Females sometimes do this as the male sings; females also use it as an alarm call.

Say's Phoebe
Song -- a low, whistled "pit-tsee-eur" alternated with a burry upslurred "churr-eep." Call -- a "phee-eur." "

Spotted Towhee
Spotted Towhees have a fairly simple song, a drier faster take on the Eastern Towhee’s drink-your-tea song that often omits the middle section. It lasts about 1.5 seconds. The song starts with one or two (up to eight) short introductory notes and then a fast trill that can sound like a taut rubber band being plucked, or a piece of paper stuck into a fan. Some Spotted Towhee songs have just the trill phrase only. Spotted Towhees make a catlike mew call, a little more than a half-second long. It seems to be used for scolding as well as by perched or foraging birds.

Townsend's Warbler
Song -- a series of buzzy notes on one pitch, followed by several on different pitch, usually rising: "Zee-zee-zee-zee-dee-du-dee." "

Western Bluebird
Western Bluebird songs tend to be a string of various call notes, particularly the kew note along with other stuttering or whistled notes. The result is a soft, hesitant song that can last 1-2 seconds. The most common call is a soft, quavering kew that may be given from a perch or in flight and is often given several times in succession. They also make a harsher, double-noted che-check when changing position, and a chattering call when disturbed. "

Western Scrub-Jay
Like other jays, the Western Scrub-Jay is extremely vocal. Behaviorists have described more than 20 separate types of calls. Examples include a weep uttered during flight, while carrying nesting material, or while taking cover from a flying predator; a bell-like shlenk used antagonistically, a quiet kuk exchanged between mates, and loud, rasping scolds for mobbing predators.

Western Tanager
Song -- a series of short, burry syllables, reminiscent of a robin with a sore throat. Call -- a "pit-er-ick." "

White-crowned Sparrow
The song of the White-crowned Sparrow Is one of the most-studied sounds in all of animal behavior. Different subspecies across the country sing clearly different songs, but they’re all recognizable by the sweet, whistling introduction, a succession of jumbled whistles, and a buzz or trill near the end. Songs last 2-3 seconds. Females sing only rarely. The song of the White-crowned Sparrow Is one of the most-studied sounds in all of animal behavior. Different subspecies across the country sing clearly different songs, but they’re all recognizable by the sweet, whistling introduction.

White-throated Swift
Call -- a long descending series of scraping notes. "

Yellow-rumped Warbler
Males sing a slow, soft, sweetly whistled warble or trill. The pitch is mostly even but may rise or fall slightly, speeding up as it ends. Songs last 1-3 seconds and consist of up to 21 individual notes.