Bushtit Sounds

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Sounds

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Nevada, September 27, 2007Recorded by Nathan Pieplow
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California, November 04, 2018Recorded by Paul Marvin / Macaulay Library
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Washington, August 01, 2017Recorded by Dave Slager / Macaulay Library
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New Mexico, February 24, 2008Recorded by Nathan Pieplow
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California, May 03, 2015Recorded by Paul Marvin / Macaulay Library

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Songs

Bushtits are active birds that use lots of contact calls, but they don’t really have a song. Occasionally, several individuals gathered together make a long, drawn-out series of quiet twitters and chips.

Calls

Bushtits make several kinds of short, high, wispy contact calls or chip notes. These help group members know where flockmates are. They can intensify to indicate nesting activities or when mobbing predators or confronting opponents. Individuals that get separated from a group make a rapid series of high-pitched chip notes that carries well.