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Red-winged Blackbird
Agelaius phoeniceus/Carouge à épaulettes

Red-winged Blackbird classic "oakaLEE," three-part song, Collegeville, PA, 3/15/03 (13kb)

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Great Swamp, 3/18/00, "oakaLEE," three-part song (8kb)

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Four part song variation, "oa-ka-LEE--ya," Alabama Jacks Restaurant, Key Largo, FL, 4/28/05 (7kb)   wave879
Point Pleasant, 8/1/99 with motor traffic (472kb) - humorous but sad for birds

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Point Pleasant, 8/1/99, "chit" sound (50kb), you can hear the Jenkinson's kiddie train in the background

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Collegeville, PA, 3/1/00 (20kb)

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Great Swamp, 3/18/00, "tseert" sound with "check" or "chit" in between.  Male, present near large flock of 200 blackbirds near swamp feeder (34kb)

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Great Swamp, 3/24/02, Red-wing "oakalee" with Chickadee snarl and Chickadee flying away (33kb)

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See also, "Red-winged Blackbird" from "Bent's: Life Histories of Familiar North American Birds", http://home.bluemarble.net/~pqn/ch41-50/blackbir.html