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. To help navigate, here’s an alphabetical index of all the species in the archive.

Narrated versions (available to paying subscribers) are indicated with a 🔈 - click on the 🔈 to access.

Bearded Tit 🔈 Ping-call wizard

Blackbird 🔈 Lofty soloist, last-leg scolder

Blackcap 🔈 Hedge torrent

Bullfinch 🔈 Sadwhistle, modest mimic

Cetti’s Warbler Hidden shocker

Chaffinch 🔈 Cheery descender, pink ‘pink!’-er

Chiffchaff 🔈 Sweet metronome, spring herald

Coal Tit 🔈 'Tee-tow-a', canopy midget

Corn Bunting 🔈 Jangling keys

Common Whitethroat 🔈 Hedgerow R2D2

Cuckoo 🔈 Seasonal signifier, trackable trickster

Curlew 🔈 Mudheart

Dunnock 🔈 Hedgerow Cinderella, sweet streamer

Fieldfare 🔈 Chack attack

Firecrest 🔈 Ascending jewel

Garden Warbler 🔈 Woodside babbler

Goldcrest 🔈 Needly fidget, fantasy hitchhiker

Golden Plover 🔈 Call of the wild

Goldfinch Involuntary tinkler, thistle picker

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, Bagpuss bookend

Greenfinch 🔈 Canopy wheeze, trilling conversations

Grey Wagtail 🔈 Even-higher Chiswick flyover

Kingfisher 🔈 Dog whistler, Doppler shifter

Lapwing 🔈Flapper, Clanger

Lesser Whitethroat Mystery rattler

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker 🔈 Manic minor, wooden cat's purr

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-dweeper, buff mask-wearer

Pink-footed Goose 🔈 Sweet shrieks

Quail 🔈 Spit-the-bit, spit-the-bit

Raven 🔈 Hard caw

Redstart 🔈 Chaffinch goes wrong

Redwing Icy whisperer, night seeper

Reed Warbler Ditch rhythm, enduring chugger

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

Stock Dove 🔈 Reversal artist, oak tree DJ

Stonechat Stony scolder, gorse pilot

Swift 🔈 Street squealer, eavesdropper

Treecreeper 🔈 Wood whisperer

Turtle Dove 🔈 Purr joy

Waxwing 🔈 Cosmic rave whistle

Willow Warbler 🔈 Sweet cascader, volume fader

Whimbrel Seven Whistler, night rattler

Woodlark 🔈 Liquid descent

Woodpigeon 🔈 Hearty ignoramus, five-noter

Wren 🔈 Tiny Tannoy, crevice dweller

Yellowhammer 🔈 Cheesy mnemonic, field gold