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Ohio birds sounds9/13/2023 Thankfully, I had a few friends who had experience with these identifications, and others who were also trying to learn. However, some, such as Yellow-billed Cuckoo, give calls similar to those you would hear on a typical summer morning. Many are high-pitched and similar enough that they can’t be identified to species. These “NFC’s,” or Nocturnal Flight Calls, are a series of typically short notes given by birds during migration. I’d seen a lot of eBird lists coming in with recordings marked “NFC”. This spring, I decided it was finally time to make the dream come true. I knew someday I wanted to be able to do that myself, and see what birds migrated over my house on a given night. I was no older than middle school at the time, but it stuck with me. The keynote speaker was telling us how he was able to listen to the birds migrating overhead each night and identify them to species by call or spectrogram. I clearly remember sitting in the audience at one of the Ohio Young Birders Club conferences. With a microphone, you’re able to hear them much clearer and even identify them to species! These “nocturnal flight calls” provide a whole new insight and level of excitement to birding in migration! When it’s quiet, you can hear faint chips overhead as birds pass by. Some of these nights, there is enough activity overhead that I try to listen to what birds are flying over. Then we all head to bed, excited for the migrants that await us in the morning. Messages are exchanged on anything from wind patterns to Cornell’s BirdCast and predicting which species we think will finally make it to our area for the first time this season. The night before birding on a given morning during migration is spent excitedly talking about the predicted migration with my friends.
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