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Vocal Range in Songbirds
Streaming Audio
The vocal range of the brown-headed cowbird exceeds that of human singers Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby McFerrin. Slowing the cowbird's song reveals its wonderful complexity.
The brown-headed cowbird's song can be found on the CD collection Bird Songs of California
produced by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.
I slowed the song down by 4 times using Bias Peak.