Nicole Perretta can imitate 165 total bird calls. She is unique among bird call imitators as she uses her voice to imitate most of the birds instead of whistling or using sound devices. She learned to produce bird calls between the ages of 6 and 11 years of age. It was at time she discovered she could capture the attention of the birds around her. She could change the direction of a flying raven, have a dove follow her, or make a hawk dive bomb an invisible foe.
Nicole has performed on national telesion. She was featured on the ," Tonight Show with Jay Leno ", twice, on October 13th, 2003 and Nov 23. 2010 , and " The Ellen Degeneres Show ", January 5th, 2005.
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Festivals and organizations the Bird Call Lady has performed for:
Chula Vista Nature Center
Tijuana River Estuary Nature Center
Agua Hedionda Lagoon Discovery Center
San Diego Natural History Museum
San Bernardino County Natural History Museum
Zoological Society of San Diego, San Diego Zoo
San Diego Bird Festival
Salton Sea Bird Festival
Yuma Birding and Nature Festival
San Diego Audubon Society
Palomar Audubon Society
San Diego Field Ornithologists
California Game Bird Soceity
San Diego Finch Society
Hookbill Hobbiests of San Diego
North County Aviculturists
California Hawking Club
San Diego County Game Bird Breeders
San Diego Bird Breeders
San Diego Finch Society
National Wild Turkey Federation, Spring Round up
YMCA
Habitat Heroes
California Open Wildlife Art Festival
Valley Verde Birding and Nature Festival
Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival
Othello Crane Festival
Midwest Birding Symposium
Living Coast Discovery Center
San Diego Museum of Man
Earth Institute
Borrego Springs Desert Birding Festival
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eBook for iPad and iPhone
Birders and naturalists can enhance their birdwatching experience by imitating bird calls. This ebook will teach you how to imitate birds vocally and how to attract them to you. Each chapter is enhanced with audio instruction and bird call examples. Contains sound files, videos, and full color illustrations.
Bird Calling App for Android
Have you ever gone birding and heard birds, but didn't see them? They may be shy of humans, but they're curious about their own kind. "Bird Call Lady" Nicole Perretta teaches five sounds that are the basis of most bird calls. By combining these sounds you can learn to call songbirds, hawks, owls, and game birds, and draw them into the open, or even have a conversation!
The Bird Call lady is available for performances and voice overs. Email: admin@voicesofafeather.com
Species List
Water and Shore Birds
1 Common Loon
2 Great Egret
3 Chinese Goose
4 Ringed Teal
5 Killdeer
6 Black-bellied Plover
Heerman's Gull (7 yelp and 8 juvenile whine)
9 Black-necked Stilt
Raptors
Cooper's Hawk (10 kak, 11 begging call)
12 Northern Goshawk
13 Red-shouldered Hawk
14 Red-tailed Hawk (begging cry)
15 Swainson's Hawk
16 Osprey
17 African Fish Eagle
18 African Pygmy Falcon
19 American Kestrel (klee, begging call)
20 Peregrine Falcon ( kak)
Game Birds
21 Valley Quail
22 Gambel's quail
Wild Turkey (23 cluck, 24 gobble)
25 Great Argus Pheasant
26 Indian Blue Peacock
27 Button Quail
28 Willow Ptarmigan
Domestic Chicken (29 Hen calm call , 30 feed call, 31 alarm call, 32 Hen with egg cluck, 33 rooster crow)
34 Ruffed Grouse
35 Blue-billed Currasow
36 Jungle Fowl (crow)
37 Temmnink's Tragopan
Cranes and allies
38 Manchurian Red-crowned Crane( pleasant call, aggressive trill, trumpet)
39 Madagascar Button Quail ( cluck, female courtship Trill)
40 Kagu
41 American Coot
Doves
Mourning Dove ( 42 song, 43 alarm call, 44 juvenile begging call)
45 Inca Dove
Rock Dove ( 46 territorial, 47 courting)
48 Diamond Dove
49 Eurasian Spotted Dove
Orange-bellied Fruit Dove (50 soft coo- ecstatic call, 51 trill, 52 brrrr call)
Green-naped Pheasant Pigeon (53 trill, 54 wail)
Ring-necked Turtle Dove (55 coo, 56 laugh)
57 White-winged Dove
58 Pink-headed Fruit Dove
Insular Blue-crowned Pigeon (59 wale, 60 coo)
61 Wampoo
62 Lilac-capped fruit Dove
Parrots
63 Green-checked Amazon
64 African Grey Parrot
65 Yellow-headed Amazon
66 Moluccan Cockatoo
67 White-eyed Conure
68 Green-cheeked Conure
Cockatiel ( 69 call, 70 song)
71 Little Corella
72 Blue and Gold Macaw
73 Red-sided Eclectus
74 White-capped Pionus ( fledgling call)
75 Kea
76 Kakapo (male courtship)
77 Black-capped Lory
78 Horned Parakeet
Cuckoos
79 Livingston's Touraco
80 Ross's Touraco
81 European Cuckoo
82 Greater Roadrunner
83 Bare-faced Go-away bird
84 Chesnut-breasted Malkoha
85 Great Blue Turaco
Owls and Nightjars
86 Western Screech Owl( hoot, trill)
87 Barred Owl
88 Great Horned Owl
89 Northern Pygmy Owl
90 Barn Owl
91 Poorwill
Hummingbirds
92 Anna's Hummingbird
Woodpeckers and allies
93 Acorn woodpecker
94 Northern Flicker
95 Swainson's Toucan
96 Gaudy Barbet
97 Nuttal's Woodpecker (trill)
98 Curl-crested Aracari ( searching call)
Hornbills and related birds
99 Silvery-cheeked Hornbill
100 Red-billed Hornbill
Sulawesi Hornbill ( 101 Alert, 102 Food begging)
White-headed Hornbill ( 103 alert call, 104 food begging)
Kingfishers and allies
Lilac-breasted Roller ( 105 begging whine, 106 cry, 107 aggression)
108 Laughing Kookaburra
109 Micronesian Kingfisher
110 Eurasian Hoopoe
Passerines
111 California Gnatcatcher
112 Northern Mockingbird
113 Varied Thrush
114 Phainopepla
115 Helmeted Friar bird
116 European Starling( fledgling)
117 Indian Hill Mynah
118 Zebra Finch
119 Red-eared waxbill ( alarm call)
120 Lesser Goldfinch
Canary (121 chirp,122 trill)
Raggiana Bird of Paradise
123 American Crow ( caw, rattle)
124 Rook
125 Clark's Nutcracker
Common Raven ( 126 far away call, 127 begging call, 128 low call)
129 Scrub Jay
130 Orange-crowned Warbler
Recently added Bird Calls
131 Swainson's Thrush
132 Harris's Hawk
133 Northern Cardinal
134 Mountain Chickadee
135 Greater Flamingo
136 Putt call of Wild Turkey
137 Humbolt Penguin
138 North Island Brown Kiwi
140 Emu
141 American Bittern
142 Willet
143 Black Skimmer
144. American Oystercatcher
145. Rufous-collared Sparrow
146. Audubon’s Oriole
147. Pink-backed Pelican
148. Long-billed Corella
149. Bald Eagle
150. Great Blue Heron
151. African-crowned Crane
152. Western Gull
153. Ostrich
154. Pied-billed Grebe
155. Toco Toucan
156. Gila Woodpecker
157. Red-winged Blackbird
158. Song Sparrow
159. Ash-throated Flycatcher
160. Great Kiskadee
161. Sandhill Crane
162. Impeyan Pheasant
163. Tambourine Dove
164. Grey Peacock Pheasant
165. Sharp-shunned Hawk
To contct Nicole please email her at: nikihawk@yahoo.com