Learn 50 Summer Common Backyard Bird Songs and Calls (Eastern United States)

Summer is a great time to start learning about the birds in your backyard. Here are 50 common backyard bird vocalizations to listen for if you live in the Eastern United States, with tips on how to remember them.

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All songs and calls by Jonathon Jongsma via Xeno Canto and used under CC 4.0 license except Northern Mockingbird by Steve (XC884705) and second Northern Cardinal song by Derek Sallmann. All photos by Ryan Sallmann except for those listed below.

Gray Catbird
Photo by Derek Sallmann

Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Photo by Courtney Celley (Public Domain)

Eastern Wood-pewee
Photo by Grayson Smith (Public Domain)

Red-eyed Vireo
Photo by Bill Thompson (Public Domain)

Warbling Vireo
Photo by Caleb Putnam (Public Domain)

Great Crested Flycatcher
Photo by Grayson Smith/USFWS (Public Domain)

Baltimore Oriole
Photo by Alan Schmierer (Public Domain)

Blue-grey Gnatcatcher
Photo by N. Lewis (Public Domain, edited)

Chimney Swift
Photo by Jeff&Amy (Public Domain, edited)

Common Yellowthroat, Northern Parula, American Redstart, and Yellow Warbler
Photo by Lorri Howski (Used with permission)

Indigo Bunting
Photo by N. Lewis (Public Domain, edited)

Birds in cover image and Spring birds slide by N. Lewis (Public Domain, edited)

1. 0:24 Northern Cardinal
2. 1:01 American Robin
3. 1:22 Blue Jay
4. 1:34 American Goldfinch
5. 1:50 Song Sparrow
6. 2:08 Mourning Dove
7. 2:29 Eastern Bluebird
8. 2:41 Red-winged Blackbird
9. 2:50 Baltimore Oriole
10. 3:14 Carolina Wren
11. 3:25 Northern Mockingbird
12. 3:50 Brown Thrasher
13. 4:19 Gray Catbird
14. 4:50 House Finch
15. 5:04 Tufted Titmouse
16. 5:26 Eastern Towhee
17. 5:39 Downy Woodpecker
18. 5:54 Hairy Woodpecker
19. 6:21 Red-bellied Woodpecker
20. 6:49 Northern Flicker
21. 7:16 House Sparrow
22. 7:33 Chipping Sparrow
23. 7:48 Eastern Phoebe
24. 8:05 American Crow
25. 8:14 European Starling
26. 8:28 White-breasted Nuthatch
27. 8:39 Cedar Waxwing
28. 8:59 Purple Martin
29. 9:17 Black-capped Chickadee
30. 9:52 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
31. 10:07 Indigo Bunting
32. 10:19 American Redstart
33. 10:34 Northern Parula
34. 10:51 Yellow Warbler
35. 10:59 Red-eyed Vireo
36. 11:16 Warbling Vireo
37. 11:16 Common Grackle
38. 11:48 Great Crested Flycatcher
39. 11:58 Barn Swallow
40. 12:09 Wood Thrush
41. 12:20 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
42. 12:52 Chimney Swift
43. 13:09 Common Yellowthroat
44. 13:18 Brown-headed Cowbird
45. 13:37 Scarlet Tanager
46. 13:56 Tree Swallow
47. 14:15 Eastern Wood-pewee
48. 14:30 House Wren
49. 14:44 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
50. 15:12 Great Horned Owl

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1. 0:24 Northern Cardinal
2. 1:01 American Robin
3. 1:22 Blue Jay
4. 1:34 American Goldfinch
5. 1:50 Song Sparrow
6. 2:08 Mourning Dove
7. 2:29 Eastern Bluebird
8. 2:41 Red-winged Blackbird
9. 2:50 Baltimore Oriole
10. 3:14 Carolina Wren
11. 3:25 Northern Mockingbird
12. 3:50 Brown Thrasher
13. 4:19 Gray Catbird
14. 4:50 House Finch
15. 5:04 Tufted Titmouse
16. 5:26 Eastern Towhee
17. 5:39 Downy Woodpecker
18. 5:54 Hairy Woodpecker
19. 6:21 Red-bellied Woodpecker
20. 6:49 Northern Flicker
21. 7:16 House Sparrow
22. 7:33 Chipping Sparrow
23. 7:48 Eastern Phoebe
24. 8:05 American Crow
25. 8:14 European Starling
26. 8:28 White-breasted Nuthatch
27. 8:39 Cedar Waxwing
28. 8:59 Purple Martin
29. 9:17 Black-capped Chickadee
30. 9:52 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
31. 10:07 Indigo Bunting
32. 10:19 American Redstart
33. 10:34 Northern Parula
34. 10:51 Yellow Warbler
35. 10:59 Red-eyed Vireo
36. 11:16 Warbling Vireo
37. 11:16 Common Grackle
38. 11:48 Great Crested Flycatcher
39. 11:58 Barn Swallow
40. 12:09 Wood Thrush
41. 12:20 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
42. 12:52 Chimney Swift
43. 13:09 Common Yellowthroat
44. 13:18 Brown-headed Cowbird
45. 13:37 Scarlet Tanager
46. 13:56 Tree Swallow
47. 14:15 Eastern Wood-pewee
48. 14:30 House Wren
49. 14:44 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
50. 14:59 Great Horned Owl

[withvinayak]

Chickadees are by far the cutest birds! They are so tiny and adorable 🥰

[shortliner]

We always have a couple Eastern Wood-Pewee birds visit our yard every year in southern MD. They will usually perch on a trellis in the early evenings, fly around to catch an insect, and return to the trellis, over and over. Earlier in the daytime we hear them in the wooded areas around our house. The whole family enjoys hearing their pee-a-wee call.

[qwpmlrd]

I've heard all these wonderful songs and calls in the wild.

[soniastraley]

Thank you for the timestamp list of calls.

[NaturallyCourtneyChannel]

I love all of the identification/memory tips included. Very creative!

[woodsonjane]

Fun to hear bird songs. Thank you for putting them together!

[Gigi.eq]

Thanks! I will definitely be using this in the future.

[wingsanddaydreams]

Great video! Happy birding! New subscriber here ✨

[JAGzilla-urlh]

I'll definitely refer back to this periodically to help memorize these calls. There are only a handful of calls I can confidently ID in the field.

The Red-Bellied Woodpecker is interesting for the sheer amount of noise it makes. I have two or three that hang around my yard (can't tell if they've ever successfully reproduced or not) every spring and summer. They call, tap, and drum all through the day. A few days ago we had one hammering on the gutter and my brother got all worried that one of the neighbors was shooting a machine gun.😂

[katherineneagle]

Carolina wren is out here calling us freaky little freaks

[heidi]

These are all my favorites! From the "squeaky swing set" gold finch...

To the. " laughing at you" overweight condescending Robyn. Aka... backyard chicken ( cuz they be running around like chickens)..

[pjloryk]

Thanks ! Im playing this in my expansive condo courtyard .
Thus far i have a new cardinal girlfriend .
Im looking for more 😂

[jasminelopez]

So sorry if these words are not working well I’m using dictation on my iPhone. So hopefully you understand what I was trying to say Elise a little bit. So this morning it’s still Saturday Eastern time. Niece around watching SpongeBob with her. And I heard this bird that sounds like the last woodpecker. Of course her being three years old she felt that the birds sound like the sound of the alarm for Sauris and Jurassic Park one. The part where Dennis was do you know it’s trying to get in the car and there’s Dilophosaurus kennels making a weird noise before he made a rattlesnake noise and attacked him. I told her that’s not a dinosaur. It’s a bird out in my window. And that noise I heard this morning, sounds like the last woodpecker before the northern Africa with the over one name was. Sometimes I go walking and I hear that same last sound from the last woodpecker in this video. And I like how I just feel because you are fuck figure out what I have been hearing on my walks and working through my window.

[jordanjmdjmd]

Was running yesterday and couldn't pin down this one song. Kept doing 4 beats where it would go low low high high. Pewee sounded the closest, but i only ever heard the 2 beat song

[OntarioBirding]

I have never heard the American redstart song in your video. The one I hear has notes rising with a sneeze sound at the end almost like “tew tew tew ti tsew”

[NoNamePrincess]

I raised a blue jay who was run over by a car for 15 years!!!😊

[My_Op]

LOL what are people smoking to hear this non-sense in bird calls!