My grandmother is aware I’ve recently gotten into birding and sent me this link to a webpage with an illustration of song birds and when you click on each bird their individual songs will play. It’s well made and I recommend taking a look! It was posted by the Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources, b…

I have heavy nostalgia when hearing Bachman’s Warbler calls, despite it being possibly extinct. When I was younger, my grandmother used to have this huge garden. It was like a rainforest in the middle of muggy Mississippi. I always loved seeing robins, blue jays, chickadees, cardinals, buntings, vir…

You can use the search filters to list observations of birds in Florida that have sounds: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=21&sounds&subview=grid&taxon_id=3 There’s also this site dedicated to bird sounds from around the world: https://www.xeno-canto.org/

For me, the animals that conjure up the most nostalgia are Mourning Doves and Carolina Chickadees, along with green tree frogs, and a good number of cicadas, such as superb dog-day cicadas, scissor grinder cicadas, and hieroglyphic cicadas. They remind me of long summers, bright days and humid night…

Spring peepers (Pseudacris crucifer ssp. crucifer) remind me of late nights lying awake as a child. They called in the wet part of the pasture next to the forest, which was the part of the pasture closest to my window.

[image] the-moon-turtle: They remind me of long summers, bright days and humid nights. My favorite time of the year, especially when I lived in places that had cold winters. I do love cicada sounds for that reason. But growing up on the New England coast, I also have nostalgia for the cries o…

We had Whip-poor-wills in a small wooded patch in the back of our garden. My dad would take me up back to listen to them, and he would explain about them. They’ve disappeared–and have been gone for years. They seemed so common when I was a child that I didn’t think they’d ever vanish. I haven’t hear…

Red-winged Blackbirds always remind me of a natural park I used to play in as a kid. The creeks are overgrown and more or less filled in now so they no longer attract the blackbirds there but the sound always takes me back to a nascent naturalist.

Song bird nostalgia

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zdanko January 29, 2021, 11:08pm 4

That sounds really cool! Probably would be helpful when identifying bird sounds on iNat, although you’d probably have to listen to each one over and over again to be able to ID verbally.

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Song bird nostalgia

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