Smithsonian Magazine

These South American Birds Can Match a Jackhammer’s Ear-Splitting Volume, Making Them Some of the World’s Loudest Known Avians

The bare-throated bellbird and the red-legged seriema can produce sounds at amplitudes that exceed 120 decibels, which puts ...
ZME Science on MSN

The world’s noisiest birds can blast calls at nearly 130 decibels like a jackhammer

Some birds sing. These birds scream like power tools. In Brazil, two species can unleash calls above 120 decibels—roughly ...
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Pigeon-sized birds emit 122dB chainsaw-like calls

A bird in the Brazilian forest opens its beak, and a sound akin to metal being struck hard splits the forest. The call of a ...
Donga Science

Two candidate bird species produce world’s loudest calls above chainsaw noise

A male bare-throated bellbird (Procnias nudicollis), a candidate for the world’s loudest bird, calling in Atlantic Forest ...
Smithsonian Magazine

7 Weirdest Bird Calls

When it comes to bird calls, every chirp, trill, and warble tells a story. From eerie screeches to melodic tunes, these ...

Scientists identify two of the world’s noisiest birds – and they’re as loud as a jackhammer

There are two new contenders for the world’s loudest bird – and scientists are not being quiet about it.

Biologists may have discovered two of the world's loudest birds

University of Massachusetts Amherst's Jeff Podos and his former graduate student João C.T. Menezes have identified two ...
Phys.org

You probably agree with animals on which bird calls, frog noises and cricket chirps are most attractive—new study

Animals do all sorts of things to attract each other as potential mates. Many birds, for example, produce feathers with elaborate color patterns—from the iridescent plumage of many hummingbirds to the ...
AOL

He Mastered 132 Bird Calls by Age 12. Here’s the Science Behind His Skill

Samuel Henderson was four years old and eating Dippin’ Dots at the zoo when a great-tailed grackle caught his attention. He copied the bird’s call, and the bird answered him. Eight years later, the ...
The Conversation

You probably agree with the animals on which bird calls, frog noises and cricket chirps are most attractive – new research

Animals do all sorts of things to attract each other as potential mates. Many birds, for example, produce feathers with elaborate color patterns – from the iridescent plumage of many hummingbirds to ...