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Birdsongs

Here are entered works on the calls or songs produced by birds. Musical compositions having birds as their subject are entered under Birds -- Songs and music. Works on the process of sound production by birds are entered under Birds -- Vocalization.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Animal sounds

• Songbirds

• Birdsongs -- Africa, West
• Birdsongs -- Juvenile fiction

• Bird calls
• Bird songs
• Bird-song

• Songs of the Birds (London: J. Lane, 1922), by Walter Garstang, illust. by J. A. Shepherd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs of the Birds (second edition, revised and enlarged; London: J. Lane, 1923), by Walter Garstang, illust. by J. A. Shepherd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Species Limits in the Indigobirds (Ploceidae, Vidua) of West Africa: Mouth Mimicry, Song Mimicry, and Description of New Species (1982), by Robert B. Payne (PDF at Michigan)

• The Tale of Bobby Bobolink (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1928), by Arthur Scott Bailey (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Tale of Old Mr. Crow, by Arthur Scott Bailey (Gutenberg text)

• The Tailor and the Crow: An Old Rhyme With New Drawings (London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., c1911), illust. by L. Leslie Brooke (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• The Scientific Bases for the Preservation of the Hawaiian Crow (1992), by National Research Council Commission on Life Sciences (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Royal Raven, by Hans Wilhelm (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• The Raven (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1884), by Edgar Allan Poe, contrib. by Edmund Clarence Stedman, illust. by Gustave Doré
  • page images at LOC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• The Raven (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1884), by Edgar Allan Poe, contrib. by Edmund Clarence Stedman, illust. by Gustave Doré
  • page images at LOC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• The Adventures of Sammy Jay (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1920), by Thornton W. Burgess, illust. by Harrison Cady (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• The Adventures of Sammy Jay (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1924), by Thornton W. Burgess, illust. by Harrison Cady (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Natural History of Magpies (1937), by Jean M. Linsdale (PDF at unm.edu)

• Annual Variation of Daily Energy Expenditure by the Black-Billed Magpie: A Study of Thermal and Behavioral Energetics (1981), by John N. Mugaas and James R. King (PDF at unm.edu)

• Annual Variation of Daily Energy Expenditure by the Black-Billed Magpie: A Study of Thermal and Behavioral Energetics (1981), by John N. Mugaas and James R. King (PDF at unm.edu)

• Population Ecology of the Dipper (Cinclus Mexicanus) in the Front Range of Colorado, by Frank E. Price and Carl E. Bock (PDF at unm.edu)

• The Life History of Henslow's Sparrow, Passerherbulus Henslowi (Audubon) (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1939), by A. Sidney Hyde (PDF at Michigan)

• The Song of the Cardinal, by Gene Stratton-Porter (Gutenberg text)
• The Song of the Cardinal; A Love Story (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1903), by Gene Stratton-Porter (multiple formats at Indiana)

• Studies in the Life History of the Song Sparrow (2 parts bound together, originally published in Transactions of the Linnaean Society of New York, 1937-1943), by Margaret Morse Nice (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Discovery of the Nest of the Colima Warbler (Vermivora Crissalis) (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1936), by Josselyn Van Tyne (PDF at Michigan)

• A Systematic Study of the Avian Family Fringillidae, Based on the Structure of the Skull (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1954), by Harrison Bruce Tordoff (PDF at Michigan)

• Diseases of Canaries (Jersey City: T.F.H. Publications, c1933), by Robert Stroud, ed. by Herbert C. Sanborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Canary Book: Containing Full Directions for the Breeding, Rearing, and Management of Canaries and Canary Mules (third edition; London: L. U. Gill; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1904), by R. L. Wallace
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Lancashire Canary: How to Breed and Rear It (London: "Canary and Cage-Bird Life", ca. 1907), by Robert Barrass (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Research and Management of the Brown-Headed Cowbird in Western Landscapes (1999), ed. by Michael L. Morrison, Linnea S. Hall, Scott K. Robinson, Stephen I. Rothstein, D. Caldwell Hahn, and Terrell D. Rich (PDF at unm.edu)

• Research and Management of the Brown-Headed Cowbird in Western Landscapes (1999), ed. by Michael L. Morrison, Linnea S. Hall, Scott K. Robinson, Stephen I. Rothstein, D. Caldwell Hahn, and Terrell D. Rich (PDF at unm.edu)

• Lydgate's Minor Poems: The Two Nightingale Poems (A.D. 1446) (EETS extra series #80; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1900), by John Lydgate, ed. by Otto Glauning (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Nestling Mouth Markings and Colors of Old World Finches Estrildidae: Mimicry and Coevolution of Nesting Finches and Their Vidua Brood Parasites (2005), by Robert B. Payne (PDF at Michigan)

• A Stereotaxic Atlas of The Brain of the Zebra Finch, Taeniopygia Guttata: With Special Emphasis on Telencephalic Visual and Song System Nuclei in Transverse and Sagittal Sections (Bethesda, MD: National Center for Biotechnology Information, 2007), by Barbara E. Nixdorf-Bergweiler and Hans-Joachim Bischof (illustrated HTML at NIH)

• Oink! Moo! How Do You Do? A Book of Animal Sounds, by Grace Maccarone, illust. by Hans Wilhelm (PDF at Wayback Machine)