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Comments on the song of the Blackburnian Warbler:
Stokes, "Song is a series of thin high-pitched notes with last note very high, like "tsip, tsip, tskip, titi, tzeeeee." Call is a nonmusical "tick".
Robbins: "Song is very high and thin, often with an exceedingly high-pitched ending, 4-6/min."
Peterson: "The most distinctive song begins with several well-measured "zip" notes on the same pitch and ends on an extremely high thin slurred note: "zip, zip, zip, zip, tti tseeeeee." This wiry end note is diagnostic if your ears can catch it. Another song is more like Nashville's, a two-parted affair: "tizip tizip tizip, tizip, zizizizizizizizi."
Related site on Blackburnian Warbler: http://www.mbr.nbs.gov/id/framlst/i6620id.html (Patuxent), field identification, song, photos, migration, distribution, taxonomy.
Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, http://www.si.edu/smbc/bom/blwa.htm.