What kinds of birds sing at night?

Question

I live in sacramento,ca, if that makes a difference.

Answer 1

Yes, location is important. There are not any nightingales or frog-mouths in California.

Here are a few birds native to your area you will hear at night:
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Common Loon
Barn Owl
Barred Owl
Common nighthawk
Whip-poor-will
Mockingbird

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_birds

Answer 2

Some birds get their inner clocks mucked up when they're near the big streetlights. I'm in the UK and we don't have mockingbirds, but we do have birds singing at night, especially in spring. I asked a bird guy in the area and he said that light pollution often means that they can't differentiate when it's night or day, and during the mating season they tend to call all night as that's what they're programmed to do in the daytime. Poor things. The park near me has those horrible yellowy lights all around it and the poor birds are singing all night. If yours is a mimic and you're not in the US (mockingbird) maybe it's a blackbird.

Answer 3

Owls, Tawny Frogmouth, White-throated Nightjar, Nighthawk, owlet-nightjar, Common Loon, Whip-poor-will.

Answer 4

Male birds mostly. They do it either as a means of attracting a mate (loudness, quality and knowledge of different tunes appear to count or to define their territory (were birds the first Gangsta Rappers |~) )

Look out for David Attenborough's BBC programme 'Life of Birds'

Auick google search revealled the following:

http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~tony/birds/links.html

There are lots of links to sound files of different birds, my personal fave being the blackbird.

Hope this helps

Answer 5

Mockingbirds are notorious night singers although many people do not like their song. Owls will call at night as well, although they do not really "sing" like passerines.

Answer 6

Male woodcocks and ducks make noises at night.

Answer 7

nightingales