# De boids is choiping!  \[Anyone ID this bird from its song?\]

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 23, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/de-boids-is-choiping-anyone-id-this-bird-from-its-song/540475 "2010-05-23T16:54:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/de-boids-is-choiping-anyone-id-this-bird-from-its-song/540475/1 "2010-05-23T16:54:16Z")

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Aah, Manhattan in the spring! Open windows, the sound of fresh sirens on the avenue, the shoosh of the vernal traffic…

We’ve got a bird come to visit our neighborhood. The GF says it’s driving her nuts. “It can’t get its song right, and I end up sitting here waiting for it to make a mistake. I’m going to have to kill it”

Then she asks “What kind of bird is that?”

Umm, do I look like I know birds? I can recognize some of them if I can see them (that’s a peacock. that one’s an ostrich) but by sound? Not me, sorry.

“Well ask your friends on the Dope, can you do that?”

Yeah, sure! [Birdie](http://home.earthlink.net/~ah3files/Stuff/Boid.mp3)

Anyone know?  
ETA: She says to tell you that the initial four-note sequence in the recording is what it does the most often.

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**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2010, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/de-boids-is-choiping-anyone-id-this-bird-from-its-song/540475/2 "2010-05-23T17:10:38Z")

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That is an [American Robin](http://www.birdjam.com/birdsong.php?id=1). Very common here in Michigan too. Noisy little buggers.

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**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/de-boids-is-choiping-anyone-id-this-bird-from-its-song/540475/3 "2010-05-24T00:39:04Z")

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Yep, Robin.