American Tree Sparrow Sounds

Overview
ID info
Life History
Maps
Sounds

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Alaska, June 10, 2006Recorded by Mike Andersen / Macaulay Library
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Alaska, June 11, 1972Recorded by William W. H. Gunn / Macaulay Library
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New York, March 20, 2016Recorded by Jay McGowan / Macaulay Library
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West Virginia, November 17, 2001Recorded by Wil Hershberger / Macaulay Library
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New York, March 24, 2019Recorded by Brad Walker / Macaulay Library
Tink calls
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Alaska, June 30, 2010Recorded by Matthew D. Medler / Macaulay Library

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Songs

Males sing a series of high, sweet whistled notes, generally falling slightly in pitch overall, often with clearer notes followed by more complex patterns. A song lasts about 1–2 seconds. There are many song dialects, each shared by many males, but each male sings only one. Singing begins in late winter before the spring migration.

Calls

When feeding or foraging in flocks, American Tree Sparrows toss back and forth a musical twitter, sometimes described as a teel-wit or teedle-eet, which may vary from flock to flock. Alarmed, they give a hard tseet. In flight, they make a softer tsiew. Females solicit copulation with a whey-whey-whey while fluttering their wings and raising their tails.