Chipping Bunting

“The song of this species, if song it can with propriety be called, is heard at all hours of the day, the bird seeming determined to make up by quantity for defect in the quality of its notes . . . resembling the sound produced by smartly striking two pebbles together . . . although the sound is scarcely louder than the chirping of a cricket.”

John James Audubon, Birds of America (New York: J.J. Audubon; Philadelphia: J. B. Chevalier, 1840-1844), vol. 3, p. 81.

View bird in National Audubon Society Field Guide for North American Birds.