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Nature sounds and descriptions: Veljo Runnel, www.loodusheli.ee

Observations table and logic: Vello Keppart

Photos: Arne Ader

Translation: Liis

 

Cuckoo	Kägu	Cuculus canorus

 

The calling of the cuckoo is heard in Estonia from the first days of May until early July. An agitated male cuckoo mixes a rough "ko-ko-ko-kok" with its usual "kuku“ . Female cuckoos have a bubbling call. The habitats of cuckoos is in all kinds of tree stands but they avoid central parts of large forests.

 

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Most common forest birds, Based on 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 20 obs. spots
Jay - Pasknäär	Observed each year	á 5 minutes

 

Pied flycatcher	Must - kärbsenäpp	Ficedula hypoleuca

 

The pied flycatcher arrives in Estonia at the end of April or beginning of May. Singing is most intense in May and fades away around the middle of June. The song is simple, a rhythmic chopping up and down. In the morning it begins singing 40-50 minutes before sunrise and ends in the evening some twenty minuts after sunset. The flycatcher lives in a variety of tree stands that have trees with hollows or nest boxes.

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Willowwarbler

Salu - lehelind

Phylloscopus trochilus

The willow warbler arrives at the end of April or in the beginning of May and sings until early July. It is one of our most numerous songbirds that can be heard in all kinds of tree stands, copses, wooded meadows and parks. The round nest is on the ground in the grass layer, in moss or sheltered by a bush. The willow warbler hides among the leaves and doesn’t catch the eye, but its song is clear and resounding "a whistling strophe of soft melodious minor key notes, descending at  the end and remotely reminding of the song of the chaffinch but much gentler". In the morning it starts singing 45-70 minutes before sunrise and in the evening stops about half an hour after sunset.

 

Chiff-chaff	Väike-lehelind	Phylloscopus collybita

The first chiff-chaffs arrive already in the middle of April. They nest in forests, wooded meadows and parks. The female builds the round nest on the ground in the grass or in low branches, some 0,3-0,9 m from the ground. The song is simple, monotonously dripping (“the milker“), “tsilp-tsalp-tsilp-tsalp ...“ or  “tsint-tsent-tsent-tsint-tsänt ...“. In the morning the chiff-chaff starts singing about half an hour before sunrise, sometimes even after that, in the evenings the song ceases before sunset.

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Read about and listen to  birds introduced previously here:

http://www.looduskalender.ee/en/node/10164

The list of all described birds is in the right-hand column in the table above