Then there was a birdcall again, sharp and urgent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hadrian's Wall.html]

Pomp would hear a birdcall and mimic it immediately.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Berrybender Narratives] Reference

The sun was warm on his back, the air full of birdcall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

Maud listened to the birdcall of the clarinet across the lake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of the Pier]

He raises his arms to shield himself, the birdcall surrounding him like manic laughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corvus] Reference

A single birdcall echoed from somewhere, and I listened, but the call was not repeated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death of Chaos]

It was quiet out here, with only the occasional sound of traffic or a nocturnal birdcall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legend of the Slain Soldiers]

All around was the sound of dripping water, interrupted by the occasional clear birdcall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tran Siberian] Reference

Conan was still cat-silent as he crept down the slope to where he had heard the birdcall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Relentless]

Jim tried the one birdcall he was good at, a quail call—then he repeated it three times.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Berrybender Narratives] Reference

The quiet was absolute, no birdcall, not even a rustle of breeze in the foliage above them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here Abide Monsters]

Even the insects were hushed, and not a single birdcall warbled or whistled through the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic of Recluce]

"Jonathan Green is a jerk-off," he said, and his voice quavered deep in his throat like a birdcall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black and Blue]

He thought he could hear every bug, every birdcall, each puff of breeze in the leaves far over his head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clear and Present Danger]

The birdcall stopped, and I waited in darkness, my senses extended to see what the Hydlenese officer did.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death of Chaos]

But like a distant birdcall, the sound of his voice seemed a territorial challenge that did not apply to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shaman's Crossing]

Acorna almost expected to hear a birdcall, or the snuffle of some smaller creature in the woods around them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acorna's Search]

An officer riding beside one of the carts heard the birdcall and began to look in my direction, then edged his mount toward the trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death of Chaos]

At first, I had thought it a distant birdcall from the garden, but now I realized that the soft trilling matched the cadence of breath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shaman's Crossing]

I blame my restless sleep (I woke up to every siren, every birdcall, every car) on the glass of wine my body has becomed unaccustomed to in just a week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Looking for a New Groove] Reference

Did the ghosts of Levantine girls haunt those cursory checkups, suggested by the fragility of my collarbone, or the birdcall of my small, congested lungs?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlesex]

He had to have heard the sound of the slaps, the thump of the punches, the birdcall of my sobs as I taped myself up, swabbed myself off, put my pieces back together again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black and Blue]

(Soundbite of a birdcall) Mr. MEIBURG: And this sound comes from a bird survey I worked on in the Falkland Islands - specifically, from a remote island called Steeple Jason.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Sounds Recorded from Far Afield] Reference

Both tapped their axes double-handed like keyboards as their birdcall debate became increasingly heated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage] Reference

Several of the pieces demonstrate a fascination with bell sounds, and there are birdcall effects in some of the works.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

Video footage of a big cat species caught on camera in the wild in air is rent by muffled birdcall and eerily swishing reeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Saving endangered species: It’s all about the economy] Reference

A birdcall-like motif in the strings 'high range opens the work, which moves through a crescendo to intense, energetic passages.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page]

He plays football and baseball at Carlmont High School in Belmont and, rumor has it, can attract chicks even without doing a birdcall.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories]

It is still the most haunting birdcall I’ve ever heard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Late, Late at Night] Reference

Meanwhile, Mara did her birdcall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roc and a Hard Place]

Suddenly there was a birdcall, quick and vibrant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hadrian's Wall.html]

She heard something that sounded like a birdcall.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

Not even the slightest birdcall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phantom Fleet]

Ross heard no birdcall warning this time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Time Traders] Reference

"The birdcall?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Fatal Tide]

I have even seen "ming" words meaning "birdcall" and "dim" dragged in.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: GETTING RITE RIGHT.] Reference

Other "mings" mean "birdcall" and "dim", and they are worked into the interpretation too, sometimes.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: PRESS.] Reference