Creatures in all their glory

Last night I went to a lecture on identifying bird calls, figuring that it was 1. Free, 2. Near my house, and 3. Might teach me some interesting fact I could use in a novel.

One of the cool things I found out was that birds that live in fields (near the ground, in grass) have songs and calls that sound more like insects, so a lot of clicking and whirring bird noises are from these types of birds.

I was having a dream where I heard a "chit...chit...chit..." beside me and thought, "Aha! I know wh...