Blog for the Birds

Dial a Bird Song!

September 18, 2007 on 6:46 pm | In Odd Stuff |

File this under “things to do while waiting in line at the post office or bank”.  The Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune has a dial in number where you can press a 4 digit code to listen to bird songs.  The number is 612-673-9050. Here are few of the codes:

5058 American robin
5059 common nighthawk
5060 dark-eyed junco
5061 Northern cardinal
5062 Swainson’s thrush

It isn’t clear how many calls are there, so you have to do a little exploring for other ones. The category numbers just above and below those numbers are also bird calls!

Listen to bird calls