Bird Songs & Calls of Lake Tahoe

VOCALIZATIONS FROM THE FORESTS AND CLEARINGS OF THE HIGH SIERRA NEVADA

by John V. Moore

This CD is an updated version of the cassette originally published in September 1995. It features vocalizations from 50 species of birds and one squirrel. Five new species and 30 new vocalizations have been added to the original play list. The vocalizations featured in this publication are those that a casual birder can reasonably expect to hear while visiting Lake Tahoe’s upper elevation forests and clearings. Naturally, all of the vocalizations will not be present at any one time, and there is a tremendous variation in the amount and type of bird vocalizations depending on the time of the year.
The vocalizations presented here are mainly from the Mixed Conifer zone and above. This CD therefore excludes a few of the songsters of the Lake Tahoe Basin that one might hear at lakeside, in town, or on the drier east slope.I have attempted to include some helpful hints on identifying the vocalizations and some interesting facts about many of the species.
This CD is not meant to be a field guide nor a general reference source for Tahoe birds. It is merely intended to help the enthusiast identify many of Tahoe’s bird sounds and to supply a few interesting facts about these birds. When used with a good field guide the listener should be well equipped to identify many of Lake Tahoe’s songsters.

Species list:

1. Introduction
2. Steller's Jay Cyanocitta stelleri
3. Clark's Nutcracker Nucifraga columbiana
4. Mountain Chickadee Poecile gambeli
5. Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis
6. White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis
7. Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis
8. Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina
9. Western Tanager Piranga ludoviciana
10. American Robin Turdus migratorius
11. Fox Sparrow Passerella iliaca
12. Green-tailed Towhee Pipilo chlorurus
13. Sooty Grouse Dendragapus fuliginosus
14. Mountain Quail Oreortyx pictus
15. Western Wood-Pewee Contopus sordidulus
16. Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi
17. Dusky Flycatcher Empidonax oberholseri
18. Cassin's Finch Haemorhous cassinii
19. Townsend's Solitaire Myadestes townsendi
20. Warbling Vireo Vireo gilvus
21. Cassin's Vireo Vireo cassinii
22. Lazuli Bunting Passerina amoena
23. Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus
24. Mountain Bluebird Sialia currucoides
25. White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys
26. Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
27. Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii
28. Spotted Sandpiper Tringa macularia
29. American Dipper Cinclus mexicanus
30. Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
31. Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
32. Brewer's Blackbird Euphagus cyanocephalus
33. Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
34. House Wren Troglodytes aedon
35. Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris
36. Pine Siskin Spinus pinus
37. Evening Grosbeak Hesperiphona vespertina
38. Golden-crowned Kinglet Regulus satrapa
39. Brown Creeper Certhia americana
40. Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
41. Woodpecker drumming
42. Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus
43. Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus
44. White-headed Woodpecker Picoides albolarvatus
45. Hairy Woodpecker Picoides villosus
46. Red-breasted Sapsucker Sphyrapicus ruber
47. Douglas Squirrel Tamiasciurus douglasii
48. American Yellow Warbler Setophaga aestiva
49. Nashville Warbler Leiothlypis ruficapilla
50. Hermit Warbler Setophaga occidentalis
51. MacGillivray's Warbler Geothlypis tolmiei
52. Wilson's Warbler Cardellina pusilla
53. Myrtle (or Yellow-rumped) Warbler Setophaga coronata
54. Ending

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