I am wondering if there is a definitive list of North American bird species that have singing females. If I can identify a singing bird by the song but don't see it I tend to think it is a male and in the past have reported it as such to eBird, with the exception of Northern Cardinal, I know the females cardinals will sing. I have seen the spreadsheet found at http://femalebirdsong.org/ but would be happy to find a list that did not require searching through almost 1200 species. Anyone know of such a list? For now I am going to stop reporting any singing birds as male unless I see them sing and can positively ID sex of the bird. I suspect others are having this problem as well and it does affect the reporting of breeding codes as all singing birds would have to be seen and sexed to report "singing male." Any thoughts? Mona Bearor Stuart's Draft Hwy, Staunton, Virginia
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