Late summer is a beautiful time of year to enjoy herons. Sometimes, herons are seen flying over, at dusk, belting out their unique, throaty call as they pass overhead. Below I share sound clips of the flight calls of eastern NA herons. All audio clips are available via xenocanto. A written description, taken from those described in the Sibley Guide to the Birds of Eastern North America, of the call has been included.<\/p>\n
Great Blue Heron<\/strong>: http:\/\/www.xeno-canto.org\/210126\u00a0<\/a>and http:\/\/www.xeno-canto.org\/210126<\/a>. Very deep, hoarse, trumpeting fraaahnk <\/em>frequently given in flight and often heard at night.<\/p>\n Great Egret<\/strong>: http:\/\/www.xeno-canto.org\/17012<\/a> and http:\/\/www.xeno-canto.org\/131650<\/a>. Very deep, low, gravelly kroow<\/em> and grating, unmusical karrr. <\/em>Other low croaks as well, all fading at end. Lower and coarser than Great Blue Heron, and without the trumpeting quality.<\/p>\n Black-crowned Night-Heron<\/strong>: http:\/\/www.xeno-canto.org\/51861<\/a> and http:\/\/www.xeno-canto.org\/152401<\/a>. Flight call a flat, barking quok <\/em>or quark.<\/em><\/p>\n Green Heron<\/strong>: http:\/\/www.xeno-canto.org\/326526<\/a> and http:\/\/www.xeno-canto.org\/149433<\/a>. An explosive, sharp, swallowed skeow. <\/em><\/p>\n American Bittern<\/strong>: http:\/\/www.xeno-canto.org\/338164<\/a>. Loud, hoarse, nasal squark <\/em>intermediate between night-herons and Mallard.<\/p>\n Least Bittern<\/strong>: http:\/\/www.xeno-canto.org\/326521<\/a>. Loud, harsh, nasally, quacking rick.<\/em><\/p>\n Little Blue Heron<\/strong>: http:\/\/www.xeno-canto.org\/173674<\/a> and http:\/\/www.xeno-canto.org\/278937<\/a>. Various, indistinct, hoarse squawks.<\/p>\n Yellow-crowned Night-Heron<\/strong>: http:\/\/www.xeno-canto.org\/257334 <\/a>and http:\/\/www.xeno-canto.org\/331264<\/a>. High, squawking bark, similar to Black-crowned but higher-pitched and more crow-like.<\/p>\n References<\/strong><\/p>\n Sibley, D.A. 2014. The Sibley Guide to Birds. <\/em>2nd ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Late summer is a beautiful time of year to enjoy herons. Sometimes, herons are seen flying over, at dusk, belting out their unique, throaty call as they pass overhead. Below I share sound clips of the flight calls of eastern NA herons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6778"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8353,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778\/revisions\/8353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}