Yellow-headed Blackbird Sounds

Overview
ID info
Life History
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Sounds

Song
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Manitoba, May 20, 1959Recorded by William W. H. Gunn | Macaulay Library
Flight song
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Manitoba, June 17, 1959Recorded by William W. H. Gunn | Macaulay Library
Song and calls
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California, June 05, 1989Recorded by Randolph Little | Macaulay Library
Song and calls
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California, June 10, 1990Recorded by Kevin J. Colver | Macaulay Library
Calls
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California, June 13, 2004Recorded by Nathan Pieplow

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Songs

Males sing a few musical notes followed by a screeching buzz, rather like a heavy door swinging on a very rusty metal hinge. They sing from cattails, bulrushes, fences, shrubs, or small trees in the morning and evening during the breeding season. Females make a chattering sound that may be considered a song.

Calls

Their calls include frequent check calls used in many situations during the breeding season, screams given by alarmed females, growls given by fighting or mating males, and harsh rattles given by males when predators are about.