Audio Postcard - Red-Winged Blackbird at Swan Lake

A red-winged blackbird calls from his territory in the marsh.

NPS / Neal Herbert

 

• Red-winged Blackbird at Swan Lake

  
  

  Evenings at Swan Lake are filled with the music of marsh animals: sharp cries of red-winged blackbirds, gentle croaking of boreal chorus frogs and distant calls of sandhill cranes.

  Credit / Author:

  NPS & MSU Acoustic Atlas / Jennifer Jerrett

  Date created:

  05/04/2015

  Audio Transcript

  The metallic trill of a red-winged blackbird punctuates the night.

  (Bird song)

  For Yellowstone National Park, I'm Savannah Smith.

 

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