{"id":144,"date":"2014-04-28T04:38:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T10:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2014-04-28T06:38:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T12:38:28","slug":"northern-cardinals-mating-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Northern Cardinal&#8217;s Mating Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_145\" style=\"width: 247px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Northern_Cardinal_05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-145\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-145\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Northern_Cardinal_05-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"Male Northern Cardinal\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Northern_Cardinal_05-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Northern_Cardinal_05.jpg 571w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Tom Baker<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The song of both male and female Northern Cardinals <em>(Cardinalis cardinalis cardinalis)<\/em> is a series of clear, bubbly notes that have been describes as <em>woit, woit, woit, chew, chew, chew, chew, chew<\/em> or <em>pichew, pichew, tiw, tiw, tiw, tiw, tiw<\/em> (Sibley); and <em>cheer, cheer, cheer<\/em> or <em>birdie, birdie, birdie<\/em> (Cornell Lab of Ornithology). It is a learned song and varies by region.<\/p>\n<p>In the spring a male seeking to attract a female gives an inspiring vocal performance that must be listened to for several minutes to be fully appreciated. It begins with a series of just five or six notes; <em>woit, woit, chew, chew, chew<\/em>. After a pause of few seconds the series is repeated, increasing the number of <em>chew<\/em> notes by just one. This continues for several minutes, each time the series increasing by just a single note. The series will often get to 18 to 20 <em>chew<\/em> notes. One series I counted reached 24 <em>chew<\/em> notes. You do not have to be a female Northern Cardinal to be impressed by such a performance.<\/p>\n<p>I have yet to hear a recording or read an account of this extended series of calls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Birds\/Northern_Cardinal.html\">http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Birds\/Northern_Cardinal.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=144\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The song of both male and female Northern Cardinals (Cardinalis cardinalis cardinalis) is a series of clear, bubbly notes that have been describes as woit, woit, woit, chew, chew, chew, chew, chew or pichew, pichew, tiw, tiw, tiw, tiw, tiw (Sibley); and cheer, cheer, cheer or birdie, birdie, birdie (Cornell Lab of Ornithology). It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[32,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}