{"id":1461,"date":"2024-12-19T18:59:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T18:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/?page_id=1461"},"modified":"2025-05-29T17:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T17:51:11","slug":"eavesdropping-supplemental-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/eavesdropping-supplemental-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Eavesdropping Supplemental Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span><\/p>\n

Continue your journey to true kinship with the natural world<\/strong>.<\/em><\/h1>\n

‘SOUNDS FROM THE BOOK’\u2014BY CHAPTER <\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n

Listen to a select list of audio\/video recordings of sounds mentioned in Eavesdropping on Animals <\/em>by chapter & page. \ud83d\udc47<\/p>\n

GO BEYOND THE BOOK WITH THE E-COURSE<\/strong><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

If you liked Eavesdropping on Animals<\/em> the book, you will love taking the next step in the self study course<\/a>.<\/p>\n

‘SOUNDS FROM THE BOOK’\u2014CHAPTER BY CHAPTER<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

RECORDING #1.<\/span>A coyote cries wolf <\/strong>\u2014<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Introduction \u2014Pages 2, 3-4.<\/h2>\n

“A single vociferous coyote aired the breaking news about the wolf… The pivotal clue that morning, the auditory signal that broadcast the pack\u2019s presence, was the coyote\u2019s unique barking howl, a call that is reserved exclusively for situations like this\u2014it is the coyote word for \u201cwolf.\u201d” In this video, coyote alarms at the Yellowstone Canyon wolf pack near Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u00a9 George Bumann<\/p>\n

RECORDING #2.<\/span>Song of a white-crowned sparrow <\/strong>\u2014<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Chapter 1 \u2014Page 10.<\/h2>\n

“The lack of noise pollution in the San Francisco Bay Area allowed white-crowned sparrows to literally sing a different tune.Instead of shouting over busy street vendors, honking taxis, delivery trucks, and construction noise to delineate their territories and attract mates, the birds were able to sing a richer, more delicate and beautiful brand of song.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Jeff Reed<\/p>\n

RECORDING #3.<\/span>Alarming of American robins at nest <\/strong>\u2014<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Chapter 2 \u2014Page 13.<\/h2>\n

“I knew very few birds at that time, but one I did know\u2014the American robin, a group of them actually\u2014was in an uproar. The robins around our home usually seemed content bouncing around the cropped grass and engaging in tugs-of-war with worms. These birds, by contrast, were jumping around and chirping in a mad fury over something I could not see.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Jennifer Golding<\/p>\n

RECORDING #4.<\/span>Calling wild turkeys <\/strong>\u2014<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Chapter 2 \u2014Page 16.<\/h2>\n

“I rendered my best yelp as I had rehearsed it for months. It was then followed by my best \u201ctree call,\u201d \u201cexcited cutting of a hen,\u201d \u201cassembly call,\u201d \u201cfly down cackle,\u201d \u201ckee kee run,\u201d\u201ccluck and purr,\u201d and, of course, a gobble.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u00a9 George Bumann<\/p>\n

RECORDING #5.<\/span>Gobbling of wild turkeys <\/strong>\u2014<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Chapter 6 \u2014Page 50.<\/h2>\n

“I did this [tallying exercise] with wild turkeys each spring for a period of three or four years, logging each sound that triggered them to gobble. The final count of gobble-inducing noises climbed to over a hundred natural and man-made sounds.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u00a9 George Bumann<\/p>\n

RECORDING #6.<\/span>Song of a blackpoll warbler <\/strong>\u2014<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Chapter 7 \u2014Page 52.<\/h2>\n

“I was learning the diverse songs of eastern wood warblers. The narrator introduced the next bird recordings by saying, \u201cBlackpoll warbler,\u201d but nothing played.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Eric Liner \/ Macaulay Library<\/p>\n

RECORDING #7.<\/span>Mobbing calls of American crow <\/strong>\u2014<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Chapter 9 \u2014Page 79.<\/h2>\n

“As researchers suspected, they could. The crows knew their abductor and reacted aggressively toward the caveman. The person wearing the caveman mask was subjected to raucous, scolding calls and dive-bombing flights by the birds.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u00a9 John Marzluff<\/p>\n

RECORDING #8.<\/span>Chickadee alarming at a Cooper’s Hawk<\/strong>\u2014<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Chapter 10 \u2014Page 89.<\/h2>\n

“Erick established a synchronized grid of microphones across a thousand-meter-by-thousand-meter plot of forest. Into one corner of this landscape, Erick piped in the prerecorded sounds of a chickadee cursing at a Cooper\u2019s hawk.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Jeff Reed<\/p>\n

RECORDING #9.<\/span>Alarm note of American robin<\/strong>\u2014<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Chapter 11 \u2014Page 96.<\/h2>\n

“The reason we don\u2019t see more animals is that they know we\u2019re coming long before we get there. I once scared a robin perched on the roof of our garage with a single step. My foot leaving the deck caused the robin to emit a harsh cheep. Its call was instantly repeated by another robin in the neighbor\u2019s willow tree about two-tenths of a mile away.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u00a9 George Bumann<\/p>\n

RECORDING #10.<\/span>Alarm sounds of a gray squirrel<\/strong>\u2014<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Chapter 12 \u2014Page 100.<\/h2>\n

“Dressed in an ashen suit with a white belly and a tail about the same volume as its body, the squirrel continues its disquieting critique. It mixes the chuffing sound with high-pitched wheezes.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u00a9 George Bumann<\/p>\n

RECORDING #11.<\/span>Alarm bark of a gray wolf<\/strong>\u2014<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Chapter 12 \u2014Page 105.<\/h2>\n

“After I imitated the alarm bark of a gray wolf for a class some years ago, a student who worked at a captive wildlife facility exclaimed, \u201cThat\u2019s exactly what the wolves do when the veterinarian shows up!”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Aaron Schuerr<\/p>\n

RECORDING #12.<\/span>A coyote cries wolf <\/strong>\u2014<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Chapter 12 \u2014Page 106.<\/h2>\n

“Specifically speaking, a coyote\u2019s distinctive upturn in pitch near the end of its bark-howl note is a telling clue that the big dogs [wolves] are in town. While coyotes seem to have variations on the alarm bark for other threats, to me, this upturn is the wolf specific signature embedded in Canis latrans\u2019s<\/em> most disquieting call\u2014and it is the exact coyote vocalization I heard that morning in Mammoth Hot Springs.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u00a9 George Bumann<\/p>\n

RECORDING #13.<\/span> <\/strong>Coyote alarm for cougars <\/strong>\u2014<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Chapter 12 \u2014Page 107.<\/h2>\n

“Coyotes verbally harass cougars too, and may have a tailor made version of the bark-howl for these big cats. The cat call, asI have witnessed it, is a mouthier \u201chusky\u201d howl embedded in the barking coyote\u2019s cry.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Sarah Fontaine<\/p>\n

RECORDING #14. Birds alarm at fake hawk \u2014 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 13 \u2014Page 113.<\/p>\n

“Every time the roboraptor\u2019s head spins or tail jiggles, it elicits wave after wave of intensified alarms from the amassing flock.This mob scene builds further as more sparrows, nuthatches, and chickadees, as well as robins, creepers, and even squirrels, join the fray. Harassment of the roboraptor quickly becomes a neighborhood affair.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Jeff Reed<\/p>\n

RECORDING #15. Chickadee song &<\/strong> variation \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 13 \u2014Page 114.<\/p>\n

“The chickadee\u2019s song is a whistled seee saww. Occasionally, a third syllable will be thrown in, making the song sound a bit like cheeeze burrr-ger.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Jeff Reed<\/p>\n

RECORDING #16. Chickadee alarms for different threats \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 13 \u2014Page 115.<\/p>\n

“When I\u2019m out walking with Hobbes, our Labrador, with all his retriever antics, chickadees often elicit strings of four to six dee notes after the chicka part. A dog is a ground threat, and though bothersome, Hobbes is of limited danger to these birds. WhenI leave Hobbes at home and walk alone\u2014moving quietly, going slowly, and paying attention to my surroundings\u2014I am met with single- or double-noted chickadeedees.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u00a9 George Bumann<\/p>\n

RECORDING #17. Multiple animal alarms suggesting a mystery \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 13 \u2014Page 118.<\/p>\n

“A minute later, a Townsend\u2019s solitaire gave its characteristic single-note call about two hundred yards to the north. This vocalization can be used for a few things, but like the chickadee\u2019s chickadeeing, it can also be used as an alarm. An American robin soon barked using a sharp peek and a red squirrel let loose with a volley of descending, chattering notes. Was this a minor territorial squabble between squirrels or did this also mean trouble?”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u00a9 George Bumann<\/p>\n

RECORDING #18. Code red bird alarm \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 13 \u2014Page 120.<\/p>\n

“There is one more level of alarm that would be helpful to discuss before we move on. Code red for many birds is conveyed with seet calls similar to the fingernail call employed by that gray squirrel in New York.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Jeff Reed<\/p>\n

RECORDING #19. Prairie dog language \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 14 \u2014Page 125.<\/p>\n

“With time, however, some interesting patterns emerged. The data showed that not only did the animals have calls that varied in reference to air or ground attack, but they had additional calls for coyotes versus dogs, and for hawks, badgers, and humans, some of which could be parsed out by the unaided human ear.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Con Slobodchikoff<\/p>\n

RECORDING #20. Common raven calls \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 14 \u2014Page 128-134.<\/p>\n

“The most common raven call I heard from that cabin in Yellowstone was a triplet of caws. I had no idea what this common theme meant. The insistent trio of notes seemed to be repeated in an unending, almost monotonous loop…The pace of the calls would sometimes quicken and come with extra notes. I might hear four, five, or eight caws in a row…. Then there was the time when I witnessed the use of two caws instead of the usual three…. Wings went up and bodies went down; both birds darted from side to side as the trailing bird attempted to push the other downward. This\u201cchase call,\u201d as it is termed, is part of how ravens deal with trespassers… Variations on the raven-on-raven chase call would soon clue me in to the presence of other species\u2014especially eagles… I also feel ravens have a different chase call for bald eagles… I\u2019m still baffled.Froggy-sounding chuckles from treetop ravens, or pairs in flight saying things like glug-glug-glug or coo-coo-coo, kah-kah-kah, leave my head spinning. Water drops, snaps, clicks, and gurgles are all in the mix, along with a zinger that sounds like wahhh wahhh, wahh\u2013wahh, which confuses me to this day.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u00a9 George Bumann<\/p>\n

RECORDING #21. Raven from Netherlands crying wolf? \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 14 \u2014Page 134.<\/h2>\n

“Just last year, a student of mine from the Netherlands sent me a video with the inquiring caption: \u201cIs this the raven word for wolf?\u201d”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Michan Biesbroek<\/p>\n

RECORDING #22. Wolf howls greet a visitor  \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 15 \u2014Page 136.<\/p>\n

“Ebullient howls resonated from the wolf enclosures as Shauna approached the facility.Interestingly, the gleeful yips, barks, and sonorous tones started not when she pulled into the parking lot, but when she was still a mile away.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Jeff Reed<\/p>\n

RECORDING #23. Song of olive-sided flycatcher \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 16 \u2014Page 158.<\/p>\n

“There is one more level of alarm that would be helpful to discuss before we move on. Code red for many birds is conveyed with seet calls similar to the fingernail call employed by that gray squirrel in New York.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Benjamin Clock \/ Macaulay Library<\/p>\n

RECORDING #24. Call of a female white-tailed deer \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 17 \u2014Page 173.<\/p>\n

“Poised on rigid legs, the mother bleated once to get the attention of her heedless youngsters\u2014they stopped. She vocalized a second time to call them back to her side, and they dutifully returned.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u00a9 George Bumann<\/p>\n

RECORDING #25. Quiet calls of black-billed magpies \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 19 \u2014Page 188.<\/p>\n

“The birds continued picking through the grass and talking to one another in low grunts and impish squeaks. I felt supremely blissful, receptive, and yes, invisible.”<\/p>\n

All rights Reserved<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continue your journey to true kinship with the natural world. ‘SOUNDS FROM THE BOOK’\u2014BY CHAPTER   Listen to a select list of audio\/video recordings of sounds mentioned in Eavesdropping on Animals by chapter & page. \ud83d\udc47 GO BEYOND THE BOOK WITH THE E-COURSE If you liked Eavesdropping on Animals the book, you will love taking the next step […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1461","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":62,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1461\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}