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Forest birds and their song - great spotted woodpecker

24.04.2011 - 20:08 |  Looduskalender
Nature sounds and descriptions: Veljo Runnel, www.loodusheli.ee
Observations table and logics: Vello Keppart
Photos: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis
Our forests are brimming with bird song - there is indeed something to hear. A series of simple everyday introductions of forest birds will follow here, to make the birds easier to identify by ear. You will be able to look the birds up on one single page here, and compare them. The list of birds to be introduced is in the right-hand column in the table below.

Great spotted woodpecker
 
Great spotted woodpecker
 Suur-kirjurähn      
 
The great spotted woodpecker is our most frequently heard and encounteret woodpecker. It often reveals its presence with a sharp  "kik" call. The drumming is generally brief and rapid, with 6-7 taps. For nesting it chooses deciduous trees but it is not very  particular with regard to habitat. As a supportive species the woodpeckers create nest hollows for other hollow nesters  in forests.
 

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Most common forest birds:

Basis: spot monitoring survey in Kaarepere forest,  1984-1992)
In how many spots á 5 minutes must you listen to hear the species?
How many times is the bird heard during 5 mins.?
LK presentation order (non-migrant* + migrant birds)
Chaffinch - Metsvint
1
2,2
Great tit*
Willow warbler - Salu-lehelind
2
0,8
Goldcrest*
Wood warbler - Mets-lehelind
2
0,8
Great spotted woodpecker*
Chiff-chaff - Väike-lehelind
2
0,8
Treecreeper*
Tree pipit - Metskiur
2
0,7
Jay*
Robin - Punarind
2
0,6
Blackbird
Song thrush - Laulurästas
2
0,5
Chaffinch
Blackcap - Mustpea-põõsalind
2
0,5
Wren
Pied flycatcher - Must-kärbsenäpp
3
0,4
Song thrush
Wren - Käblik
3
0,4
Robin
Cuckoo - Kägu
3
0,4
Chaffinch
Garden warbler - Aed-põõsalind
              4
             0,3
Redwing thrush
Great tit - Rasvatihane
4
0,3
Tree pipit
Blackbird - Musträstas
4
0,3
Chiff-chaff
Goldcrest - Pöialpoiss
4
0,3
Willow warbler
Redwing - Vainurästas
4
0,3
Pied flycatcher
Collared dove - Kaelustuvi
4
0,3
Cuckoo
Siskin - Siisike
5
0,2
Wood warbler
Willow tit - Põhjatihane
5
0,2
Blackcap
Dunnock - Võsaraat
5
0,2
Garden warbler
Greater spotted woodpecker - Suur-kirjurähn
5
0,2
  
Treecreeper - Porr
Observed each year
    
Bullfinch - Leevike
Observed each year
Spot monitoring
  
Jay - Pasknäär
Observed each year
20 obs. spots
  
   
á 5 minutes
  
 
 
Great tit
 
Great tit
 Rasvatihane
      
The great tit stays in Estonia during the whole year. As the first bird it opens the spring season with its song: already in January its rhythmic ”sawing”  begins; towards spring changing into the typical gaily sounding song „tsitsifüü tsitsifüü ...“ („sitsikleit sitsikleit“). (from the book, ”Eesti laululinnud – Estonian songbirds” by Rootsmäe and Veroman pp 215-216). Some individuals can imitate other birds. The register of calls is similarly very varied. Up to 50 different calls have been noted for the great tit. In the morning the great tit begins singing up to one hour before sunrise and stops in the evening a little after sunset
Kõrv loodusesse - Listening to nature: Great tit
 
Goldcrest
 
Goldcrest
 Pöialpoiss
      
 
The goldcrest is the tiniest bird in Estonia and in Europe. It has a very thin voice. The song, reminding of a violin, is so high-pitched that older people cannot hear it. The goldcrest’s song can be heard in CONIFEROUS and MIXED FORESTS. It usually keeps to the crowns of high spruces. In the mornings it begins singing 30-50 minutes before sunrise, in the evening it stops already some time before sunset. The last ones singing can be heard in the second half of July or in August, even in September in exceptional cases. The call resembles the corresponding call of tits. 

Kõrv loodusesse, Listening to nature: Goldcrest

 

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