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- The Western Warbling-Vireo is greyish olive bird that can be found in deciduous trees in woodlands and open areas in western Canada and the United States.
Its name is quite descriptive of its song — a rapid and almost frantic warbling song that is loud enough that you are more likely to hear this bird than see it.
In 2025 this species was split from the Eastern Warbling-Vireo, which has a much more rapid sounding and less disjoined song. This split happened after this recording, so you’ll hear me refer to it simply as a Warbling Vireo.
Credits
Songbirding: Kananaskis Country is a Songbirding Studios production.
Recorded, engineered, narrated and created by Rob Porter.
The Songbirding cover art (Townsend's Warbler) is by Lauren Helton: https://tinylongwing.carbonmade.com/projects/5344062
Creative Commons music is from Bluedot Sessions.
Learn how to support the show at https://songbirding.com/support - In the first half we explore insect songs & sounds in southern Ontario in mid-October, then to a group of Common Ravens in Alberta in June.
Credits
The Songbirding Halloween Special (2026) is a Songbirding Studios production.
Recorded, engineered, narrated and created by Rob Porter.
The Songbirding cover art (Townsend's Warbler) is by Lauren Helton: https://tinylongwing.carbonmade.com/projects/5344062
Creative Commons music is from Scott Buckley. https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/
Learn how to support the show at https://songbirding.com/support - While hiking the Fullerton Loop Trail I found a very cooperative Townsend’s Solitaire, at about the halfway point of the hike. For this episode, we’re going to listen to this long-winged songster, as well as many other songbird species here.
Credits
Songbirding: Kananaskis Country is a Songbirding Studios production.
Recorded, engineered, narrated and created by Rob Porter.
The Songbirding cover art (Townsend's Warbler) is by Lauren Helton: https://tinylongwing.carbonmade.com/projects/5344062
Creative Commons music is from Bluedot Sessions.
Learn how to support the show at https://songbirding.com/support - Continuing the ascent of the Fullerton Loop Trail, I’m about to encounter the songs of Red-breast Nuthatches, Western Warbling-Vireos, and Townsend’s Solitaires.
Credits
Songbirding: Kananaskis Country is a Songbirding Studios production.
Recorded, engineered, narrated and created by Rob Porter.
The Songbirding cover art (Townsend's Warbler) is by Lauren Helton: https://tinylongwing.carbonmade.com/projects/5344062
Creative Commons music is from Bluedot Sessions.
Learn how to support the show at https://songbirding.com/support - As I continue along the Fullerton Loop Trail, I’ll be encountering some Chipping Sparrows, Varied Thrush, Mountain Chickadees, and more.
Credits
Songbirding: Kananaskis Country is a Songbirding Studios production.
Recorded, engineered, narrated and created by Rob Porter.
The Songbirding cover art (Townsend's Warbler) is by Lauren Helton: https://tinylongwing.carbonmade.com/projects/5344062
Creative Commons music is from Bluedot Sessions.
Learn how to support the show at https://songbirding.com/support
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About Songbirding
Immerse yourself in the elsewhere.
Guided by award-winning naturalist and field recordist Rob Porter, the Songbirding podcast is an audio nature documentary that takes you on guided hikes while you learn the songs of dozens of North American songbird species. Entirely recorded in the field, and equally ideal for learning or relaxing to. You really won't hear any other podcast quite like this (and if you do, we'd really like to hear about it!).
Songbirding has been four-time nominated as Best Science Podcast for the Canadian Podcast Awards.
You can start with any episode in any season. Season 1: Bruce Peninsula, Ontario; 2-3: Southern Ontario; 4: Mid-western & Southern Ontario; 5: Johnston Harbour, Ontario; 6: Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania; 7: Kananaskis Country, Alberta.
For those with high-frequency hearing loss, please search for "Songbirding Under 5kHz".
Credits
Recorded, engineered, narrated and created by Rob Porter.
Cover art by Lauren Helton - https://tinylongwing.carbonmade.com/
About the Host
Rob is a software engineer and naturalist in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is the winner of the 2025 Betty Blashill Environmental Prize, and started the Songbirding podcast in 2019. He is also currently the Bird Studies Group Director of the Hamilton Naturalists' Club.
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Support the show at https://songbirding.com/support
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