Songs of Eastern Birds (Donald J. Borror, 1970)

My mom listened to the Borror records all the time when I was growing up. This is for her.
Happy Mother’s Day, Mom!
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SIDE 1 / BAND 1
The songs and calls on this band are relatively simple, and some can be paraphrased with words or syllables; most appear to be a single note or phrase.
Chuck-Will's-Widow 0:21
Olive-Sided Flycatcher 0:55
Acadian Flycatcher 2:09
American Woodcock 2:55
Red-Tailed Hawk 3:27
Common Grackle 4:06
Henslow's Sparrow 4:54
SIDE 1 / BAND 2
The songs of the first five species on this band might be described as trills; they consist of one or more series of similar notes or phrases, generally musical in quality, and usually uttered too fast to count.
Worm-Eating Warbler 5:37
Pine Warbler 6:35
Myrtle Warbler 7:32
Tennessee Warbler 8:34
Wilson's Warbler 9:43
Dickcissel 10:27
Long-Billed Marsh Wren 11:16
SIDE 1 / BAND 3
The birds on this band are generally found near water. Their calls are rather simple in character, and each species has two or more different calls.
Killdeer 12:33
Belted Kingfisher 13:22
Sora 13:57
Common Gallinule 14:47
Common Tern 15:40
Herring Gull 16:19
SIDE 1 / BAND 4
This band contains sounds of woodpeckers. Woodpeckers produce two sorts of sounds-vocalizations and drummings.
Red-Headed Woodpecker 17:29
Red-Bellied Woodpecker 18:02
Hairy Woodpecker 18:55
Downy Woodpecker 19:48
SIDE 1 / BAND 5
The birds in this band have a variety of vocalizations, and for at least some of them it is a problem to decide just what should be called the song. In what appears to be the song there is much variation in the duration and spacing of the notes and phrases.
Starling 20:29
Purple Martin 21:35
Barn Swallow 22:18
Tree Swallow 23:19
Eastern Bluebird 24:04
Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher 25:16
Yellow-Breasted Chat 26:05
SIDE 2 / BAND 1
The songs in this band are buzzy or lisping in character. A buzzy quality is produced when the pitch of a note is fluctuated up and down more than about 30 times a second, or when a note or phrase with a frequency spread of half an octave or more is repeated at rates over about 30 per second.
White-Crowned Sparrow 26:59
Black-Throated Blue Warbler 27:49
Blackburnian Warbler 28:47
Bay-Breasted Warbler 29:45
SIDE 2 / BAND 2
The songs on this band consist mainly or entirely of one or more series of similar phrases, usually uttered slowly enough to count.
Black-And-White Warbler 30:40
American Redstart 31:30
Prothonatary Warbler 32:24
Connecticut Warbler 33:13
Mourning Warbler 33:55
Yellow-Throated Warbler 34:31
Northern Water-Thrush 35:30
SIDE 2 / BAND 3
The songs on this band are short and relatively complex.
Bachman's Sparrow 36:19
Bewick's Wren 37:23
Fox Sparrow 38:23
Magnolia Warbler 39:27
Canada Warbler 40:17
SIDE 2 / BAND 4
This band contains songs of species in which each bird has a repertoire of 2 or more different songs, and sings these songs in an irregular sequence (but generally does not sing the same song twice in succession).
Hermit Thrush 41:06
Swainson's Thrush 41:46
Gray-Cheeked Thrush 42:38
Veery 43:12
Solitary Vireo 44:09
Yellow-Throated Vireo 44:47
SIDE 2 / BAND 5
The songs on this band are rather complex. Most are relatively loud, with a whistled or warbled quality, some contain very rapidly uttered notes, and a few are quite long.
Blue Grosbeak 45:52
Orchard Oriole 46:53
Western Meadowlark 47:56
Horned Lark 48:58
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet 49:27
Winter Wren 50:35
Lark Sparrow 52:03
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INTRODUCTION
This record is designed to follow Common Bird Songs, which appeared in 1967. It contains songs of 60 species that are relatively common in at least some sections of eastern United States, either as breeding birds or migrants, and species not included on Common Bird Songs. The songs on this record are arranged more or less in order of increasing complexity, with similar songs or calls together on the same band so that they can be more easily compared. Recordings of two or more individuals are included for most species in order to show some of the variation in the species; each ‘example’ is from a different bird, and the different examples are designated on the record by numbers.
The following accounts contain brief descriptions of each species’ songs, and contain occasional references to particular songs on the record; it is suggested that the listener refer to these accounts when listening to the record. No attempt is made to describe each bird or to indicate its geographic range; this information is available in various bird guides, and the listener might profitably have a guide at hand when listening to the record.
(Some text has been truncated to fit RUclips's description field character limit)
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Songs of Eastern Birds by Donald J. Borror (1967)
Dover Publications (22378-7)
Raw scans and vinyl LP rip sourced from the Internet Archive (archive.org)
Audio editing, image restoration, and video presentation by Ray Kingston.