I don't know if it's a dialect, family thing or individual preference but some songbirds at my house have a distinctive call that is one note longer than those five miles south of me. Exactly the same except they omit the terminal note.

I'm sure indigenous peoples had a much better understanding of how the animals around them communicated.

I have read about this. Humans are just beginning to understand the complex world of other creatures. We could learn so much from them if only we weren't so human-centric. Dolphins, too, have dialects, and call each other by name. I think I read that birds do this too. My dog knows his family's human names when he hears them, but what does HE call us?

We in Yountville California”s Napa County have wild turkeys and they are very noisily mating now. I’m listening for and hearing repeated sounds as we homo approach or walk near them.