Brewer's Sparrow Sounds

Overview
ID info
Life History
Maps
Sounds

Song (breweri)
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Colorado, May 26, 2014Recorded by Wil Hershberger / Macaulay Library
Song (breweri)
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California, May 15, 2013Recorded by Paul Marvin / Macaulay Library
Song (breweri)
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Oregon, May 29, 1994Recorded by Randolph Little / Macaulay Library
Song (breweri)
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California, June 11, 2010Recorded by Gregory Budney / Macaulay Library
Song (breweri)
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Colorado, April 27, 2011Recorded by Andrew Spencer / Macaulay Library
Calls (breweri)
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California, June 22, 2013Recorded by Justin Hite / Macaulay Library
Calls (breweri)
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Colorado, July 05, 2012Recorded by Andrew Spencer / Macaulay Library
Calls (breweri)
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Colorado, May 26, 2014Recorded by Wil Hershberger / Macaulay Library
Flight calls (breweri)
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Colorado, July 03, 2012Recorded by Andrew Spencer / Macaulay Library
Song (taverneri)
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Alberta, July 15, 2014Recorded by Andrew Spencer / Macaulay Library
Song (taverneri)
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Yukon Territory, June 05, 2014Recorded by Andrew Spencer / Macaulay Library
Song (taverneri)
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Yukon Territory, June 05, 2014Recorded by Andrew Spencer / Macaulay Library
Calls (taverneri)
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Alberta, July 14, 2014Recorded by Andrew Spencer / Macaulay Library
Flight calls (taverneri)
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Yukon Territory, June 05, 2014Recorded by Andrew Spencer / Macaulay Library

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Songs

Male Brewer’s Sparrows sing dry, trilling songs that fall into two main types: long and short. Long songs last 10–15 seconds and consist of 5–10 distinct sections. They are quite complex—Roger Tory Peterson once likened it to “a Chipping Sparrow trying to sing like a canary.” Males sing long songs early in the breeding season when they are trying to attract mates, and generally stop singing the long versions when they have found a mate. After that they sing mostly short songs, which last 1.5 to 3 seconds and typically consist of 2 trilled sections, with the first usually being faster and higher pitched. Some elements of each song type are nearly identical to phrases sung by Clay-colored and Chipping Sparrows. Short songs continue throughout breeding, and sometimes even at night or on the wintering grounds. Songs differ somewhat in quality between the two subspecies, with the sagebrush subspecies being somewhat buzzier than the timberline form.

Calls

Call is a soft tsip or seep, similar to other Spizella sparrows. Females give soft twittering calls when soliciting courtship feeding or copulation from males.