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Pine Siskin Sounds

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Song (Northern)
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New York, January 30, 2018Recorded by Glen Chapman / Macaulay Library
Song (Northern)
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California, April 06, 1988Recorded by Thomas G. Sander / Macaulay Library
Song (Northern)
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California, May 31, 2001Recorded by Gregory Budney / Macaulay Library
Calls (Northern)
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California, June 06, 1991Recorded by Dave Herr / Macaulay Library
Calls (Northern)
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Colorado, June 19, 2008Recorded by Nathan Pieplow
Calls (Northern)
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New York, February 18, 2018Recorded by Jay McGowan / Macaulay Library
Calls (Northern)
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New York, April 12, 2012Recorded by Matthew D. Medler / Macaulay Library
Calls (Northern)
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Maine, July 15, 1981Recorded by Margery R. Plymire / Macaulay Library
Calls (Chiapas)
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Chiapas, April 02, 2015Recorded by Andrew Spencer / Macaulay Library

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Songs

Males string together husky, whispering trills, slurs, and short ascending notes into songs lasting 3–13 seconds. Songs are generally more nasal or wheezy than those of other finches. Song phrases are sometimes punctuated by "watch-winding" or "churry" notes (see Calls Description). Adult males can continue to add songs to their repertoires.

Calls

Pine Siskin flocks are constantly atwitter with wheezy contact calls while feeding or in flight. Their most recognizable call is a "watch-winding" note, a harsh, upsweeping zreeeeeeet lasting most of a second, tossed in amidst shorter calls. They utter a distinctive flight call, an explosive zwee or psee that initiates startled flight. In flight, a tit-a-tit call often accompanies each flap-and-glide undulation. A single siskin can call back the flock with a solitary note. Females solicit copulation by uttering soft calls while bowing and fluttering tail and wing feathers. The female solicits feeding from the male with a low twittering call that carries well through the trees.

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