A-Z
Every bird featured on Shriek of the Week so far
Substack is an ever-growing thicket, where birds and humans can easily go astray. So here’s an alphabetical index of all the species in the archive.
For older shrieks, there are separate narrated versions (indicated with a 🔈). These are available to paying subscribers - click on the 🔈 to access.
Bearded Tit 🔈 Ping-call wizard
Blackbird Lofty soloist, last-leg scolder
Blackcap Hedge torrent
Blue Tit High-high low-low-low-low
Bullfinch 🔈 Sadwhistle, modest mimic
Cetti’s Warbler Hidden shocker
Chaffinch 🔈 Cheery descender, pink ‘pink!’-er
Chiffchaff Spring two-step
Cirl Bunting Without cheese
Coal Tit 🔈 'Tee-tow-a', canopy midget
Collared Dove Coo operator
Corn Bunting 🔈 Jangling keys
Common Whitethroat 🔈 Hedgerow R2D2
Cuckoo Cuckoo!
Dunnock Hedge Cinderella, sweet streamer
Firecrest 🔈 Ascending jewel
Garden Warbler 🔈 Woodside babbler
Goldcrest 🔈 Needly fidget, fantasy hitchhiker
Golden Plover 🔈 Call of the wild
Goldfinch Involuntary tinkler
Great Tit Squeaky bicycle pump, confusion artist
Great Spotted Woodpecker Major drummer - explosive 'chick!'
Greenshank Triple pipes
Green Sandpiper 🔈 Marginal panic
Green Woodpecker Laughing ant-eater
Greenfinch 🔈 Canopy wheeze, trilling conversations
Grey Wagtail 🔈 Even-higher Chiswick flyover
House Sparrow Ecstatic chirp
Kingfisher 🔈 Dog whistler, Doppler shifter
Lesser Whitethroat Mystery rattler
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker 🔈 Manic minor, wooden cat's purr
Little Owl Yell o’ sunshine
Long-tailed Tit 🔈 See-see-see-er, churring bumbarrel
Meadow Pipit 🔈 Seep-seep-seep-er, parachuting LBJ
Mistle Thrush 🔈 Drizzly whistler, treetop carousel
Nightingale 🔈 Spring maestro, thicket inspector
Nightjar 🔈 Twilight surveillance
Nuthatch Dweep-dweep
Pink-footed Goose 🔈 Sweet shrieks
Quail 🔈 Spit-the-bit, spit-the-bit
Red-backed Shrike Thorn star
Redstart 🔈 Chaffinch goes wrong
Redwing Icy whisperer, night seeper
Reed Warbler Ditch rhythm
Robin Streetlight philosopher, dodgy Geiger counter
Sedge Warbler 🔈 Glitch of the ditch
Skylark 🔈 Higher state of consciousness
Song Thrush Variety performer, repeat-and-switcher
Spotted Flycatcher 🔈 Streaky, squeaky
Starling Bag of clockwork
Stock Dove 🔈 Reversal artist, oak tree DJ
Stonechat Stony scolder, gorse pilot
Swallow Wurzel on the wing
Swift Street shriek
Treecreeper 🔈 Wood whisperer
Tree Pipit Edgy raygun
Turtle Dove 🔈 Purr joy
Waxwing 🔈 Cosmic rave whistle
Wigeon The old graze / whistle test
Willow Warbler Sweet descent
Whimbrel Seven Whistler, night rattler
Whooper Swan Wild hoo-hah
Woodpigeon 🔈 Hearty ignoramus, five-noter
Wood Sandpiper Would chip
Wren Tiny Tannoy, crevice dweller
Yellowhammer 🔈 Cheesy mnemonic, field gold
Yellow-browed Warbler Quiz bit