Sound Moment · Veery Song with Common Yellowthroat, Rockefeller State Park
Veery: Spiraling downward flute-like Veery song
A Veery pours out another cascading, downward-spiraling flute-song, rich and liquid.
Veery Song with Common Yellowthroat, Rockefeller State Park
wooded understory, spring morning · May 19, 2026
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Sound Moments
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- A Veery opens with its unmistakable song, breathy flute-like phrases spiraling downward in overlapping loops.
- A Veery unspools another phrase, a downward-spiraling churn of flute tones that seems to corkscrew toward the forest floor.
- A Veery pours out another cascading, downward-spiraling flute-song, rich and liquid.
- A Veery sounds its downward-spiraling flute-song again, each phrase coiling inward like slow-poured bronze.
- A Common Yellowthroat cuts in with a rolling, emphatic witchity-witchity, bouncing just under the Veery.
Full transcript
- A Veery opens with its unmistakable song, breathy flute-like phrases spiraling downward in overlapping loops.
- A Veery unspools another phrase, a downward-spiraling churn of flute tones that seems to corkscrew toward the forest floor.
- A Veery pours out another cascading, downward-spiraling flute-song, rich and liquid.
- A Veery sounds its downward-spiraling flute-song again, each phrase coiling inward like slow-poured bronze.
- A Common Yellowthroat cuts in with a rolling, emphatic witchity-witchity, bouncing just under the Veery.
What you're hearing
- Time0:08 into the recording
- BirdVeery (Catharus fuscescens)
- Sounds likespiraling downward flute-like Veery song
- WhereRockefeller State Park
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Drill this voice and the rest of the dawn chorus in short, audio-first lessons.
Get Wings & WhistlesThe recording is a real field capture, but this species call is identified as probable rather than confirmed, so the page is described conservatively and kept out of search for now. The full recording has the complete soundscape.