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MoniBinis

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I can't seem to find this through my own research anywhere. I hear a bird song every morning that I'm trying to identify. I'm in central Indiana and the song is 4 notes that are in a minor key and sound similar to Rue's Whistle from the Hunger Games. However instead of ascending one note and then descending three, this one descends, ascends to a note higher than the original, then descends again.

Something like C-B-D-A but maybe not exactly. This is driving me nuts! Thanks.
 

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I can't seem to find this through my own research anywhere. I hear a bird song every morning that I'm trying to identify. I'm in central Indiana and the song is 4 notes that are in a minor key and sound similar to Rue's Whistle from the Hunger Games. However instead of ascending one note and then descending three, this one descends, ascends to a note higher than the original, then descends again.

Something like C-B-D-A but maybe not exactly. This is driving me nuts! Thanks.

Can you record it? That would be a big help.
 
Taking a wild stab at Whippoorwill, which is one of the few birds that really does say its name. Though it is more like C-B-D without the A...
 
First thing that comes to mind is a Chickadee, could be Black-capped or Carolina in Illinois I think. I don't remember their songs well but perhaps listen to both (they have a variety of vocalizations) and see if the fee-bee or fee-bee-bee type vocalizations sound similar.

As others have commented, if you were able to record it we could help a lot more.
 
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It would be great if you could get a recording. I can't get anything out of your attachment.
 
I can't seem to find this through my own research anywhere. I hear a bird song every morning that I'm trying to identify. I'm in central Indiana and the song is 4 notes that are in a minor key and sound similar to Rue's Whistle from the Hung https://19216811.cam/ er Games. However instead of ascending one note and then descending three, this one descends, ascends to a note higher than the original, then descends again.

Something like C-B-D-A but maybe not exactly. This is driving me nuts! Thanks.
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