Show Bird Calls and Their Names Most of us know the chickadee when we hear him bim calling over and over Chick Chick dee dee a-dee dee dee Chiek dee Chick k dee adee dee dee But when he sings his bis clear whistling note Phoebe Phoebe we weare weare weare are are likely to mistake him for the tha Phoebe bird The chickadee stays in inthe inthe the North in winter and the phoebe phoeba does not come North till the early spring The phoebe bird sings Its name over and over a very sweet but penetrating sound The peabody bird says Peabody peabody peabody over and over in a rather senseless way as if he went round In a circle Another bird that sings his name is la Bob White the quail Only he often says Poor Bob White His notes go up nn and down and o yn and are stronger than thanh tb h of l birds and may maybe maybe maybe be heard heard-at heard at a long distance Of course these birds do not really sing their names But people listening to them have fancied that these names are what the notes sound like and so they have given the bird th the name I to A C f- f 1 f. f k |