bird call mnemonics

[mopinko]

reading the thread here 'post a picture of a bird you saw recently' someone mentioned the mnemonic for the indigo bunting. and i mentioned the towhee's drink you tea.
can you name some more?

[semillama]

1. my favorite is Red-Eyed Vireo

"look at me, here I am, tree top, way up high"

and yellow warbler: "sweet sweet sweet sweet sweeter than sweet"


but the true best is Bill Hicks' mnenomic for Communist Pigeons:

"Coup, Coup!"

[livetohike]

2. Red wing blackbird

"Look at meeeeeee!"

Barred owl "Who cooks for you? Who cooks for y'all?

[Gato Moteado]

8. yeah, the barred owl is a cool one......

....have heard many asking the "who cooks for you all" question in south florida.

the mnemonic i'd like to see spelled out is the scream of the barn owl.

[XemaSab]

3. Golden Crowned Kinglet:

I-am-not-a-chestnutbackedchickadee!

Brown Creeper:

trees trees beetley trees

Cal Quail:

chi-CA-go! chi-CA-go!

Bewick's Wren: Dial 5 on an old rotary phone

Zhick-tititititi!

and of course Buff-collared Nightjar:

Presta-me-tu-cuchillo!

(lend me your knife en espanol)

[PuraVidaDreamin]

4. potato chip

goldfinch

[Coloradan4Truth]

5. Not really mnemonics, but helpful for remembering...

Lark Bunting = Car alarm going off
Cassin's Sparrow = The beginning of Beethoven's 5th movement

[5X]

6. One of my favorite is just too easy.....

chuck-wills-widow.

[Gato Moteado]

7. just like the white wing dove......

....sings the song, sounds like she's singin':

who, baby, who, said who


it's true.....steveie nicks didn't lie. i've heard them.

[semillama]

9. Brown-headed nuthatch

they sound like doggie squeek toys. It's funny.