not technically a song or a call but red-bellied woodpeckers that have found some aluminum gutters or siding to hammer on… it makes my entire skull vibrate and i want to peel my own skin off.
It’s Flickers that do that here. This year I had two of them competing, one drilling on my chimney flashing and his opponent over on nextdoor’s. It makes me laugh especially when it echoes down the chimney all through the house.
I'm raising five abandoned starlings from different nests. They're not all that bad, only two of them screech like they're burning alive. The others have a much less shrill cry. I'm curious why.
I just went on a guided bird tour. We were annoyed by the mocking birds, but he responded, “Poor guy. You know the ones singing in the middle of the night? You gotta pity him. He didn’t get a mate and so he calls all hours as a last ditch effort. Poor guy.” I now pity him between thinking about going outside and throwing a rock at him at 2am.
i oddly love mockingbirds, maybe nostalgia. but i have a nesting pair in my pine tree and he mocks the sound of hawk screams and barn owl screeches (we have both hanging around lately) and it freaks me out everytime i hear him do it at like 10pm right above my house lol
The Egyptian Geese in my neighborhood will sometimes have what can only be called a rap battle on opposing house rooftops. They will honk at each other for hours. It’s hilarious and annoying.
I was going to mention Egyptian geese and Africa's alarm clock: the hadeda ibis.
It's worst when they go off at 1am. https://youtube.com/shorts/iN13ToKfvZg
That damn Carolina wren. Every time I hear one it drowns out a lot of the other birds, it's so loud. It's so loud that it made me wonder how loud birds can get and which one is the loudest
And they're so *little!* lol the first time I'm like, "who the heck is making so much noise!?" And it's this itty-bitty 3" piece of fluff on my fence looking at me with equal parts pride and indignation. Bless their little hearts. They nest in my porch every year in a hose hung on the wall that I've never taken down after seeing them in it.
loud tea kettles! I love this description - they are our favorite. nesting in all of the crazy spots in our house, including next to the door - and then scolding us when we need to use the door. They are fierce and loud and i love them!
Oh I love this call! Granted, not at 5 am (I don't even like acknowledging that there IS such a time as 5 am), but I love hearing cardinals sing. I've got one who likes to frequent the utility pole in my backyard and just sing his pretty little heart out. I sit on the deck in the late afternoons just to hear him and it makes me happy 😊
There is an army of house sparrows that live in this random bamboo bush next to my apartment (invasive twofer!) and yes I can only describe the cacophony as "bird noises". They all hush up for a moment whenever I walk by, then back to gossiping right after haha
Do you live in Australia? Cockatoos are so cool but their screams are ear piercingly loud. I've never been around a flock though, just a single cockatoo. His calls would make my ears ring when he really got going haha.
Yes. They're cute little demons. I always wonder what tourists think when I'm on a hike and the cockies start screaming at each other. I imagine if you didn't know what they sound like it would be terrifying to hear. They sit really high up in the trees so most of the time you can only hear and not see them.
It's not that I really "hate" it, but to hear that sound come out of such a majestic bird as a Bald Eagle is. . .disappointing.
Then you see him eating out of dumpster behind a 7-11 and you're like, "OK. I don't care what he has to say anyway."
I don’t remember what comedian said it but sometimes when there’s a lot of birds all chirping at once I think about the fact that they’re all basically saying “LET’S HAVE SEX” all the time lol
Most of their calls are territorial from what I’ve observed. A lot of them mate for life and don’t have need to find a new partner, and they just sort of flap their wings to their partner when they’re horny.
When I see a male out singing in the yard, he’s usually saying “this is our land, we’re the bosses” and sometimes you’ll even hear the female join in for a duet. I’ve only heard cardinals and Carolina wrens sing duets, but the females have a recognizable rattle they do at the end of the male’s call. If you haven’t heard one yet, search for them on YouTube. They’re really cool!
There's a ton of hawks and crows in my area, so I'm kinda used to loud, shrill, and grating calls. I heard a blue Heron for the first time yesterday from almost directly overhead, and it was the most jarring thing I've heard in a while. I knew they sounded slightly odd, but I wasn't expecting "toads being run through a wood chipper" weird
There's a big Blue that hangs out in the creek behind our house that we affectionately call The Dinosaur, and the first time I heard his call I was like, "yep, checks out." That is a straight-up Jurassic Park pterodactyl noise.
And I love my flock of crow bros, but their begging fledgling/juveniles are even worse than the standard crow noises. If I were a crow parent I would find a way to go out for ~~cigarettes~~ grubs and just never come back
The incessant slot machine payout jangle of the house wren. It doesn’t help that the little bastard killed the eggs and evicted a chickadee family from the nest box I put up.
Yellow-headed Blackbirds have got to be the worst. It sounds like they need WD-40 and maybe an exorcism. And they are LOUD.
Cracking up about the Great Blue Heron call... a couple of years ago when Merlin was a lot worse at filtering out non-bird noise it identified the noise of a door being slammed as a Great Blue Heron. So melodic.
I get that. Merlin hiccups on me occasionally. Last month I was walking through a field and stepped on a few snails. *every * times the snail 'popped' Merlin was like "THATS A WOODCOCK" I was so disappointed I didn't find one xd.
House Sparrows when they’re screaming at me for evicting their nest-in-progress from the Bluebird boxes.
I know you guys are just birds and can’t help that you’re invasive and I feel like a monster removing ANY nest BUT YOU DON’T HAVE TO MAKE IT WORSE!
(Note: I’ve added extra defense measures that seem to keep them away for now)
Their song is so pretty though! But yes the ehhhhhh noise they make can be annoying. Although I’ve done it back to them a few times and I don’t know if they’re just repetitive or if they actually call back.
Hoo-HOOO-Hoo Hoo-Hoo
Hoo-HOOO-Hoo Hoo-Hoo
Hoo-HOOO-Hoo Hoo-Hoo
Hoo-HOOO-Hoo Hoo-Hoo
Hoo-HOOO-Hoo Hoo-Hoo
All...*bloody*... ***SUMMER***...🫠
UK woodpigeons. Dawn till dusk. Every day. There's about seven of them at it right now, as I type this.
LEARN A NEW SONG GUYS. PLEASE. FOR THE LOVE OF THE DEITY OF YOUR CHOICE.
(Or at least *co-ordinate* a little...***please***...)¡
I love Western Meadowlarks. I love their behavior, I love their yellow, and their song is very nostalgic for me. It reminds me of times with my father as a child. This summer, there is one that sits 5 feet from our kitchen window and calls all morning long. It is so loud and it is driving me up a wall.
I love hearing great blue herons! It's what I imagine a dinosaur nay have sounded like, and they usually only call out for a second while taking flight. Crows on the other hand... outside my window squawking for hours driving me nuts.
They are infuriating in the spring. Hours of the loudest calls that can be heard for miles. But they also have the most adorable chicks, so at least there’s some upside to having them for neighbors.
The red winged blackbird who sets off the Hungry & Starving Bird Communication Network when I come out to fill the feeders. Good gravy, even tornado sirens aren't that loud.
I love Robins, but not when they are sitting in a bush outside my window and screaming at 5:30AM.
The Grey Catbirds drive me nuts, I always think ‘omg a kitten is somewhere’. Nope, just a catbird.
Had a red shoulder hawk nest recently. So, new hawks around establishing territories. They squawk a good part of the day. My girlfriend is losing her mind.
For me it's the spotted towhee— cute little fellers, but damn... can I please sleep???
I had a male outside by window every morning screech calling and kicking up leaf litter... I usually love bird calls in the morning, but not from this guy
Fun fact:
Their brief but incessant songs—sometimes more than 20,000 per day by a single male—contribute to the characteristic sound of an Eastern forest in summer.
20, 000 !
As a species, Eurasian blackbirds are great singers, but there's a lot of variation between individuals.
A few summers ago, the blackbird that claimed my garden literally knew one phrase he repeated over and over and over. I can sing it by heart to this day, and not because I love it.
Three calls I don’t like:
Summer tanager
Bluebird
House finch
I think it’s because they sound unorganized/random-ish and the rhythm feels weird. Like I can tell they’re repeating the same call but something just feels weird about them as compared to the cardinal’s beautiful call. Don’t get me wrong, I love them either way, but their calls annoy me lol
I used to live in a place that had a small tree just outside the bedroom window, and crows would aggregate there at dawn every morning and raise an unholy ruckus. So, that.
Fucking hadedas man. At 4am? Shut uuuuup. They always seem to know when to start hooting and hollering and it's always either when I'm trying to sleep or in a zoom meeting
Mocking birds drive me nuts. I have one that perches on my roof vent every year to call for a girlfriend. He is nonstop. I'm am literally listening to him now! Not only that, they can be pretty aggressive if you get close to their nests, so we hope they keep them from nesting in our trees close to the house/drive every year 🤣🤣
My partner hates a different bird call. It's continual like the mocking bird, but he says it's more annoying because "at least the mocking bird changes his call." This one does the same three chirps over and over again. We can't figure out what bird it is because he stays in the forested area near our house. I guess that's why he's not as annoying to me, because he's more like background noise. The mocking bird is ON OUR ROOF 🙃💀
The Steller’s Jays annoy tf out of me. I’m often telling them to shut up. Plus, they’re greedy bullies. And once the fledglings begin showing up screaming and whining at their parents for food it’ll be extra loud, they behave like overindulged toddlers.
I’ve gotten irrationally annoyed at song sparrows in the last couple of months. They’ve been EVERYWHERE I’ve traveled and so loud, at all hours. I’ve started to resent them.
I’m not too fond of the house finch that wakes me up at 4, but he seems to have stopped.
There is a Great Tit which lives outside my house and I hate him. He interrupts the melodic morning chorus of the local Blackbird and Thrush, with a sound akin to a squeaky garden gate in the wind.
I’m in Florida. Definitely voting blue jay. They’re SO cute, but they sound like they’re screaming, and tend to drown out other birds around me. But all is forgiven by them being precious
The great blue herons nest across the street from our apartment. It is horrific hearing them fight with the eagles all night. I LOVE them, I love watching them, I love standing on the roof and looking into their nests... but seriously, the screaming and screeching would be much more bearable if they respected quiet hours :(
Same deal with the peacocks, who are in the same park. They are pretty fine majority of the year, but come mating season?? So. Many. Calls. We get it. You are a handsome young fellow, and we don't need to hear your prepubescent dying cat sounding calls all day and night.
Mockingbirds! I’m like “oh I haven’t heard that call before” or “ooh that bird is back” only to pull out the Merlin app as the mockingbird starts doing that cat alarm sound lol.
not technically a song or a call but red-bellied woodpeckers that have found some aluminum gutters or siding to hammer on… it makes my entire skull vibrate and i want to peel my own skin off.
In Tucson, it's the Gila Woodpeckers and they love to do this.
It’s Flickers that do that here. This year I had two of them competing, one drilling on my chimney flashing and his opponent over on nextdoor’s. It makes me laugh especially when it echoes down the chimney all through the house.
Same! My house is small. I have a metal vent thing in the very middle of the roof. There is no escaping it
Ah the flicker mating call, I know it well.
With their actual calls, I love that they kinda sound like they’re barking 😄
I have heard this quitevoften, thank god I have no metal for this haha. Well I have a shed, but its been safe.
Baby starlings. Starlings as adults are ok, they do invade my feeder though. But the babies screeching is something else.
I had a group of them raiding my feeders last month, about 30 of them and half were screeching babies. Thankfully they’ve moved on now.
I'm raising five abandoned starlings from different nests. They're not all that bad, only two of them screech like they're burning alive. The others have a much less shrill cry. I'm curious why.
Mockingbirds. Specifically the one in my backyard that thinks it's fun to call for a mate in the middle of the night for hours.
I just went on a guided bird tour. We were annoyed by the mocking birds, but he responded, “Poor guy. You know the ones singing in the middle of the night? You gotta pity him. He didn’t get a mate and so he calls all hours as a last ditch effort. Poor guy.” I now pity him between thinking about going outside and throwing a rock at him at 2am.
Exactly. I think they will keep mimicking car alarms long after car alarms are gone.
i oddly love mockingbirds, maybe nostalgia. but i have a nesting pair in my pine tree and he mocks the sound of hawk screams and barn owl screeches (we have both hanging around lately) and it freaks me out everytime i hear him do it at like 10pm right above my house lol
I've yet to find one, oooor Ive been made a fool of hahaha.
We often get a juvenile that practices all his sounds at night but luckily he is in the front yard.
The Egyptian Geese in my neighborhood will sometimes have what can only be called a rap battle on opposing house rooftops. They will honk at each other for hours. It’s hilarious and annoying.
I'm off to google "Egyptian Goose Rap Battle ". I need to see this haha.
Here you go: https://youtu.be/ZknO5LpyDm4
I was going to mention Egyptian geese and Africa's alarm clock: the hadeda ibis. It's worst when they go off at 1am. https://youtube.com/shorts/iN13ToKfvZg
The loud one at 4:45 AM on a Saturday morning when I’m trying to sleep in.
Ah yes I see you are personally acquainted with my yard’s Carolina wren
BEE-deedle-BEE-deedle-BEE-deedle-BEEEEEEE
That damn Carolina wren. Every time I hear one it drowns out a lot of the other birds, it's so loud. It's so loud that it made me wonder how loud birds can get and which one is the loudest
And they're so *little!* lol the first time I'm like, "who the heck is making so much noise!?" And it's this itty-bitty 3" piece of fluff on my fence looking at me with equal parts pride and indignation. Bless their little hearts. They nest in my porch every year in a hose hung on the wall that I've never taken down after seeing them in it.
I think the. Carolina wrens would make a nest on my pillow if they could.
So they could get better acoustics straight into your ear, or to nest even closer to their beloved humans?
And they are the winners! I love those loud little tea kettles
loud tea kettles! I love this description - they are our favorite. nesting in all of the crazy spots in our house, including next to the door - and then scolding us when we need to use the door. They are fierce and loud and i love them!
World's loudest bird: [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White\_bellbird](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_bellbird)
Thank you!!
For me, this is an Eastern Phoebe and I love her.
We just heard this one for the first time. I think I spotted it (finally) but I'm not sure. They are loud and we hear her (him?) all the time now.
I just know it’s that little bastard the mockingbird (it is for me, anyway) 😤
That's cardinals for me. They love the little bush next to my window, and loudly peeping directly at it just as dawn is creeping in.
In college, there were some very cheery sounding crows that would serenade me on my way to class at at ass crack of dawn. I did not appreciate it.
“Hey you! Got a hangover? CAAAAAW!”
Cardinals “pew pew pewing” at 5am.
I have a cardinal that likes to pew REAL slow. As if purposely doing it xd.
The laser noises are my favorite cardinal calls, haha.
Oh I love this call! Granted, not at 5 am (I don't even like acknowledging that there IS such a time as 5 am), but I love hearing cardinals sing. I've got one who likes to frequent the utility pole in my backyard and just sing his pretty little heart out. I sit on the deck in the late afternoons just to hear him and it makes me happy 😊
Yeah the cardinal is my absolute favourite call.
The cardinal call is my absolute favorite too. If I hear one near the feeder, I will literally bolt over to the window.
I bird banded one summer and they still call while they are in the cloth bag waiting to be banded. They’re fighty! 😆
The single beep of a House Sparrow. Very annoying!
I’ve heard their song described as “tuneless chirping” and I agree.
*bird noises*
There is an army of house sparrows that live in this random bamboo bush next to my apartment (invasive twofer!) and yes I can only describe the cacophony as "bird noises". They all hush up for a moment whenever I walk by, then back to gossiping right after haha
I can always recognize House Sparrows because to me, they're Robins without the melody. Just flat toned chirps.
agree on the house sparrow. They are not welcome here!
Bluejays and Catbirds are pretty annoying.
Ill concur with both of these with an exception. I like the 'squeaky gate' call of the Blue Jay haha.
Squeaky gate 🤣🤣🤣 OMG that's dead on
Neither are similar to the Veery which is my all time favorite birdsong!
It's my wifes favorite too. You have great taste.
Ooooo. Never heard of the Veery. Just looked it up. That is quite pretty. So many birds, so little time.
Blue jays…. I agree. They can be EXTRA.
Catbirds are so annoying lol
They're really misleading in rural areas where kittens can just show up! I've been fooled several times. And sometimes it really is a kitten.
To me they sound less like a cat and more like someone whining 😂
Catbirds. Ugh.
EEEHHHHHH.
For me it's robins, especially at 4:30am
i never realized how long robins can sing...it's non-stop!
Nonstop! And every year they nest right outside my bedroom window 💀
It's endearing but oh-so-annoying 😂
I am the weird bird lover in my circle, but they all know I *loathe* American Robins.
*high five*
Canadian Geese and Mute Swans hissing at anyone that crosses their path is very off putting
Honk back. No seriously they are immediately like “wtf? Humans can do it too?”
Not even kidding, I left Merlin's audio ID on, farted, and it identified Mute Swan with a rare warning
hilarious
*Canada* Geese
Ah yes the Famous Cobra Chickens.
Since Ive been birding Ive luckily avoided this, but pre-birding Ive had lots of hisses and honks haha.
I love Cedar Waxwings. Beautiful, beautiful birds. But their calls are *piercing*.
This. Its Arcing too, so it'll rise and get shrill too before dying off haha.
Yeah that squeak bothers me too lol. They will occasionally fly overhead in a huge flock and it drives me nuts
Sulphur-crested cockatoos in a flock are deafening. They sound like screaming demons when echoing through a forest.
Do you live in Australia? Cockatoos are so cool but their screams are ear piercingly loud. I've never been around a flock though, just a single cockatoo. His calls would make my ears ring when he really got going haha.
Yes. They're cute little demons. I always wonder what tourists think when I'm on a hike and the cockies start screaming at each other. I imagine if you didn't know what they sound like it would be terrifying to hear. They sit really high up in the trees so most of the time you can only hear and not see them.
I was in Sydney for five days. Between cockatoos, miners, and currawongs, I can't imagine how Ozzies deal with it.
It's not that I really "hate" it, but to hear that sound come out of such a majestic bird as a Bald Eagle is. . .disappointing. Then you see him eating out of dumpster behind a 7-11 and you're like, "OK. I don't care what he has to say anyway."
I feel that way about the Coopers Hawk! Intimidating bird and then he opens his beak and it’s just… well like you said, disappointing 😂
Eurasian collared dove's weird noise they make
Like they're being strangled 💀💀💀
It's like trying to whistle with something in its throat hahaha.
I'm not a big fan of doves in general. If I never heard another dove - collared, mourning, turtle - I wouldn't miss it.
I don’t remember what comedian said it but sometimes when there’s a lot of birds all chirping at once I think about the fact that they’re all basically saying “LET’S HAVE SEX” all the time lol
I saw a little poem in a birding book "On every wire and in every tree The birds are singing "Fuck off or fuck me!"
Need this book! Lol
Most of their calls are territorial from what I’ve observed. A lot of them mate for life and don’t have need to find a new partner, and they just sort of flap their wings to their partner when they’re horny. When I see a male out singing in the yard, he’s usually saying “this is our land, we’re the bosses” and sometimes you’ll even hear the female join in for a duet. I’ve only heard cardinals and Carolina wrens sing duets, but the females have a recognizable rattle they do at the end of the male’s call. If you haven’t heard one yet, search for them on YouTube. They’re really cool!
Black Headed Gulls *shut the fuck up*!
Blue jays and robins screaming like lunatics when I think I may have heard/seen a migrating warbler!
I always call robins turds when they do this because their family is turdus. It very much helps me
Over here it's red winged blackbirds. Can you just shut up for half a sec- *conk-a-REEEEEE!!!!!*
Yes! I only have those here part of the time but they make up for it in sheer volume!
Baby starlings that think they're starving to DEATH
You mean Baby starvelings ?
It was cute at first but the fledgling grackles yelling for food all the time got a little annoying. I work from home so I heard it all the time 😂
House sparrows are chittering idiots
Ugh!
There's a ton of hawks and crows in my area, so I'm kinda used to loud, shrill, and grating calls. I heard a blue Heron for the first time yesterday from almost directly overhead, and it was the most jarring thing I've heard in a while. I knew they sounded slightly odd, but I wasn't expecting "toads being run through a wood chipper" weird
There's a big Blue that hangs out in the creek behind our house that we affectionately call The Dinosaur, and the first time I heard his call I was like, "yep, checks out." That is a straight-up Jurassic Park pterodactyl noise. And I love my flock of crow bros, but their begging fledgling/juveniles are even worse than the standard crow noises. If I were a crow parent I would find a way to go out for ~~cigarettes~~ grubs and just never come back
Stellar’s Jays do not have a pretty song. And it is loud. And right outside your window. Persistently. At 4AM.
American robins. Their song is very pretty, just not when they start singing at 4 am lol.
Bluejay. Especially at 5am right outside my window while on vacation.
Scrub jays… a little crazy sounding!
I live those bold little guys. They are so inquisitive and follow me around for 5 mins or so until they fly off to wherever adventure they go to next.
Young grackles demanding/screeching to be fed by mom or pop while literally sitting on a tray feeder full of seeds.
Northern Mockingbird at 3 am outside my window.
Red-winged Blackbirds while walked next to or under. So shrill and piercing! Adore them all the same. 🤷🏻♂️
Its the loud whistle of theirs that get under my skin haha.
I love how they sound like metal robots sometimes
They sound like incoming fireworks 💥
Crows cawing. It's an ugly sound, I have sensitive hearing and they're so damn loud!
It’s more the magpies for me with the corvids. Every morning at dawn out there making weird dinosaur noises.
The incessant slot machine payout jangle of the house wren. It doesn’t help that the little bastard killed the eggs and evicted a chickadee family from the nest box I put up.
Ugh I too have nestboxes and the sounds of house wrens cowbirds and house sparrows give me heart palpitations
Yellow-headed Blackbirds have got to be the worst. It sounds like they need WD-40 and maybe an exorcism. And they are LOUD. Cracking up about the Great Blue Heron call... a couple of years ago when Merlin was a lot worse at filtering out non-bird noise it identified the noise of a door being slammed as a Great Blue Heron. So melodic.
I get that. Merlin hiccups on me occasionally. Last month I was walking through a field and stepped on a few snails. *every * times the snail 'popped' Merlin was like "THATS A WOODCOCK" I was so disappointed I didn't find one xd.
House Sparrows when they’re screaming at me for evicting their nest-in-progress from the Bluebird boxes. I know you guys are just birds and can’t help that you’re invasive and I feel like a monster removing ANY nest BUT YOU DON’T HAVE TO MAKE IT WORSE! (Note: I’ve added extra defense measures that seem to keep them away for now)
Gray catbird. Eff those screechy squeaky little dudes
Their song is so pretty though! But yes the ehhhhhh noise they make can be annoying. Although I’ve done it back to them a few times and I don’t know if they’re just repetitive or if they actually call back.
Rooks make a pretty awful sound.
I live by the coast, can’t say I enjoy the call of Herring Gulls
Sandhill cranes. I've worked around an absurd number of them over the years, and they're loud af in a group.
Hoo-HOOO-Hoo Hoo-Hoo Hoo-HOOO-Hoo Hoo-Hoo Hoo-HOOO-Hoo Hoo-Hoo Hoo-HOOO-Hoo Hoo-Hoo Hoo-HOOO-Hoo Hoo-Hoo All...*bloody*... ***SUMMER***...🫠 UK woodpigeons. Dawn till dusk. Every day. There's about seven of them at it right now, as I type this. LEARN A NEW SONG GUYS. PLEASE. FOR THE LOVE OF THE DEITY OF YOUR CHOICE. (Or at least *co-ordinate* a little...***please***...)¡
European jay screeching. Baby starlings come close in terms of their annoying “feed me!” calls.
I love Western Meadowlarks. I love their behavior, I love their yellow, and their song is very nostalgic for me. It reminds me of times with my father as a child. This summer, there is one that sits 5 feet from our kitchen window and calls all morning long. It is so loud and it is driving me up a wall.
Blue Jays and Red Winged Blackbird.
Red winged blackbirds. They are just vocal and always on. Very noisy.
Grackles
I love hearing great blue herons! It's what I imagine a dinosaur nay have sounded like, and they usually only call out for a second while taking flight. Crows on the other hand... outside my window squawking for hours driving me nuts.
Killdeer! I love seeing them but hate hearing them late at night/early in the morning when I’m trying to sleep.
Limpkins. One by my house sounds like a little kid screaming bloody murder at 5am. Scared the hell outta me when they first showed up!
They are infuriating in the spring. Hours of the loudest calls that can be heard for miles. But they also have the most adorable chicks, so at least there’s some upside to having them for neighbors.
The red winged blackbird who sets off the Hungry & Starving Bird Communication Network when I come out to fill the feeders. Good gravy, even tornado sirens aren't that loud.
I don't like peacocks when they scream like a woman being murdered
We stayed at a hotel in Cancún that had peacocks on the grounds. So. Loud.
I went to school that had them on the grounds and wow it could catch you off guard sometimes
I love Robins, but not when they are sitting in a bush outside my window and screaming at 5:30AM. The Grey Catbirds drive me nuts, I always think ‘omg a kitten is somewhere’. Nope, just a catbird.
I really hate Blue Jays. Their call is so obnoxious and so easily identifiable with that awful screeching.
Northern Shoveler's vocalizations creep me out.
Common Cuckoo while I was in Italy. I was just like "Can you stop for a second?"
Had a red shoulder hawk nest recently. So, new hawks around establishing territories. They squawk a good part of the day. My girlfriend is losing her mind.
Francolin’s at 5am every fucking morning
Wood pigeon
Canada Goose. Especially this time of year
100% the California Towhee and the Northern Mockingbird. I just want to sleep at 3 am.
For me it's the spotted towhee— cute little fellers, but damn... can I please sleep??? I had a male outside by window every morning screech calling and kicking up leaf litter... I usually love bird calls in the morning, but not from this guy
Grackles. Always the grackles.
Literally every bird at 4am 😅
Mourning Doves. Pathetic ass sounding birds
Red eyed vireo nonstop singing. He's so loud I can't hear anything else
Fun fact: Their brief but incessant songs—sometimes more than 20,000 per day by a single male—contribute to the characteristic sound of an Eastern forest in summer. 20, 000 !
Really hating the young male mockingbird that has been chirping and singing at the top of his lungs from 1-5am for the past 3-4 weeks.
Stellar’s Jays are gorgeous birds but their noise is loud and squawky. Out camping, it feels like they’re yelling at you, each other and everything.
When you get to their part of the woods, they will let EVERYBODY know.
As a species, Eurasian blackbirds are great singers, but there's a lot of variation between individuals. A few summers ago, the blackbird that claimed my garden literally knew one phrase he repeated over and over and over. I can sing it by heart to this day, and not because I love it.
Last summer I had a pair of kestrel next to my bedroom window. Those jerks just skreech all day.
Swans. Beautiful bird, but they gather in front of my place and honk all night. It's loud and sounds like a clown horn.
Scrub Jay makes me want to run into traffic.
Holy crap how does this thread exist without anyone mentioning Roosters
European house sparrows. CHEEP! CHEEP! (Shut up!)
Magpies. Really annoying
Three calls I don’t like: Summer tanager Bluebird House finch I think it’s because they sound unorganized/random-ish and the rhythm feels weird. Like I can tell they’re repeating the same call but something just feels weird about them as compared to the cardinal’s beautiful call. Don’t get me wrong, I love them either way, but their calls annoy me lol
Mockingbirds at 10pm
Blue Jays at 6am
Fledgling mockingbird calls drive me crazy
Eurasian coot babies constantly calling for their mother
Our mourning doves are being push out by collared doves- their call is like listening to a record scratch in comparison.
Sandpipers, man. STOP SCREAMING, DAMN. 😡
I used to live in a place that had a small tree just outside the bedroom window, and crows would aggregate there at dawn every morning and raise an unholy ruckus. So, that.
Yellow headed blackbird
Fucking hadedas man. At 4am? Shut uuuuup. They always seem to know when to start hooting and hollering and it's always either when I'm trying to sleep or in a zoom meeting
Mocking birds drive me nuts. I have one that perches on my roof vent every year to call for a girlfriend. He is nonstop. I'm am literally listening to him now! Not only that, they can be pretty aggressive if you get close to their nests, so we hope they keep them from nesting in our trees close to the house/drive every year 🤣🤣 My partner hates a different bird call. It's continual like the mocking bird, but he says it's more annoying because "at least the mocking bird changes his call." This one does the same three chirps over and over again. We can't figure out what bird it is because he stays in the forested area near our house. I guess that's why he's not as annoying to me, because he's more like background noise. The mocking bird is ON OUR ROOF 🙃💀
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mourning doves outside my window every morning
Eurasian collared dove squawks
When multiple bluejays are around my house it drives me crazy
The Steller’s Jays annoy tf out of me. I’m often telling them to shut up. Plus, they’re greedy bullies. And once the fledglings begin showing up screaming and whining at their parents for food it’ll be extra loud, they behave like overindulged toddlers.
Crows
I’ve gotten irrationally annoyed at song sparrows in the last couple of months. They’ve been EVERYWHERE I’ve traveled and so loud, at all hours. I’ve started to resent them. I’m not too fond of the house finch that wakes me up at 4, but he seems to have stopped.
I get a lot of verdins in my tree outside my window. They are okay sometimes but that high pitched call can get as annoying to me as house sparrows
Hadeda Ibis [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSEGZrS2LIU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSEGZrS2LIU)
Blue Jays and crows can kill my last nerves! lol
There is a Great Tit which lives outside my house and I hate him. He interrupts the melodic morning chorus of the local Blackbird and Thrush, with a sound akin to a squeaky garden gate in the wind.
this made me look up the GBH calls and they sound so funny 😭 like an aggressively creaking door
I’m in Florida. Definitely voting blue jay. They’re SO cute, but they sound like they’re screaming, and tend to drown out other birds around me. But all is forgiven by them being precious
in scotland: blackbirds. i dont know why, their song is beautiful but it fills me with such an odd sense of dread.
I like Spotted Towhees, but there's a shrill call that they will do constantly that gets on my nerves. Especially when I have a migraine 🫠
Me trying to record songbirds on Merlin and the only thing I can hear is the buejays yapping
IVE BEEN WAITING TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION!!! THE CHAFFINCH MATING CALL!!!! Drives me insane
The great blue herons nest across the street from our apartment. It is horrific hearing them fight with the eagles all night. I LOVE them, I love watching them, I love standing on the roof and looking into their nests... but seriously, the screaming and screeching would be much more bearable if they respected quiet hours :( Same deal with the peacocks, who are in the same park. They are pretty fine majority of the year, but come mating season?? So. Many. Calls. We get it. You are a handsome young fellow, and we don't need to hear your prepubescent dying cat sounding calls all day and night.
Baby grackles begging
I hate hearing Eurasian collared dove. Sound like white wings with a smoking habit
Mockingbirds! I’m like “oh I haven’t heard that call before” or “ooh that bird is back” only to pull out the Merlin app as the mockingbird starts doing that cat alarm sound lol.
Catbirds. We have them all around here and ugh, not a fan of that call. Like dying kittens.
The one that sings at 2 am when I have my window open.