While camping beside a lake, I once woke to the sound of a loon. It was one of the eeriest, most beautiful sounds I’ve ever heard. When loons tremelo, a sound often referred to as the “laughing call,” look out: they’re trying to give warning to others.
Birdsongs, and especially those of birds found in Connecticut, play a crucial role in THE FALCON, THE WOLF AND THE HUMMINGBIRD, the story of a female warrior in precolonial New England, available through Histria Books.
Are you a birder or know someone who is? Then here are some other resources from my research:
Cornell Lab of Ornithology: a fabulous site that includes audio of bird calls
Spring morning birdsong in Connecticut: April begins the migration of winter birds (loons, grebes, geese, and ducks); wood ducks and Blue-winged Teals move north along with tropical birds (Piping Plover, Yellowlegs, Ruddy Turnstones, and a few others; the marshes will now have Ospreys and early herons and egrets moving into Connecticut
Various sounds of loons from syracuse.com
Northern Mockingbird YouTube audio: wallup-wallup-wallup (mid-range tone) and what-up, what-up, what-up; wit-wit-wit-wit-wit
Wildlife in Connecticut also includes a lot about birds along with other animals.
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SCATTERED LIGHT, a novel, sequel to WINTER LIGHT (Nov. 2025)
THE FALCON, THE WOLF AND THE HUMMINGBIRD a historical novel
BLISS ROAD, a memoir
WINTER LIGHT, a novel
THE WIND THIEF, a novel
GROWING GREAT CHARACTERS, a resource for writers
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