World's Weirdest Bird Sounds - Part One
Birds make some of the weirdest sounds in the natural world - here's just a handful of some of the most outrageous!
Check out Part Two for 16 more!
0:07 Grey Go-away-bird
0:40 Capuchinbird
1:08 American Bittern
1:29 Brown Sicklebill
1:40 Laughing Kookaburra
2:05 Great Potoo
2:35 Willow Grouse
3:13 Jack Snipe
3:44 Channel-billed Cuckoo
4:26 Black-footed Albatross
5:17 Western Capercaillie
6:10 Black-throated Loon
6:43 Northern Lapwing
7:11 Southern Cassowary
7:28 Tui
8:27 Montezuma Oropendola
AUDIO ATTRIBUTIONS
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β’ Capuchinbird: GABRIEL LEITE- https://www.xeno-canto.org/307385
β’ American Bittern βhttp://test.xeno-canto.org/310044
β’ Brown Sicklebill: Phil Gregory- https://www.xeno-canto.org/330325
β’ Brown Sicklebill: John V. Moore- https://www.xeno-canto.org/279452
β’ Brown Sicklebill: Nick Athanas- https://www.xeno-canto.org/18880
β’ Great Potoo: Bruce Lagerquist- https://www.xeno-canto.org/349444
β’ Willow Grouse: Jens Kirkeby- https://www.xeno-canto.org/149806
β’ Jack Snipe: Stein Γ. Nilsen- https://www.xeno-canto.org/265128
β’ Western Capercaillie: PE Svahn- https://www.xeno-canto.org/313912
β’ Black-throated Loon: Tero Linjama- https://www.xeno-canto.org/340741
β’ Southern Cassowary: Marc Anderson- https://www.xeno-canto.org/132934
β’ Tui: Matthias Feuersenger- https://www.xeno-canto.org/378280
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β’ Grey Go-away-bird: Peter Boesman- https://www.xeno-canto.org/346742
β’ Laughing Kookaburra: Vicki Powys- https://www.xeno-canto.org/30646
β’ Channel-billed Cuckoo: Marc Anderson- https://www.xeno-canto.org/150468
https://www.xeno-canto.org/295300
β’ Black-footed Albatross: David m- https://www.xeno-canto.org/120995
β’ Northern Lapwing: Terje Kolaas- https://www.xeno-canto.org/246301
β’ Montezuma Oropendola: Mike Nelson- https://www.xeno-canto.org/106662
IMAGE ATTRIBUTIONS
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β’ Grey Go-away-bird: Derek Keats- https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:Grey_go-away_bird_(9667027392).jpg
β’ Brown Sicklebill: markaharper1-https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Epimachus_meyeri_-Papua_New_Guinea_-male-8.jpg
β’ Great Potoo: Francesco Veronesi- https://www.flickr.com/photos/francesco_veronesi/16284594492
β’ Willow Grouse: Peter Wilton- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Willow_Ptarmigan_(7458260016)_(cropped).jpg
β’ Channel-billed Cuckoo: Dominic Sherony- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Channel-billed_Cuckoo_(Scythrops_novaehollandiae)_(30556020533).jpg
β’ Black-footed Albatross: Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife-
https://www.flickr.com/photos/odfw/14997985814/
β’ Western Capercaillie: sighmanb- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capercaillie_(8751340764).jpg
β’ Black-throated Loon: Steve Garvie-
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-_Rainbirder_-_Black-throated_Diver_(Gavia_arctica)_swimming.jpg
β’ Tui: Matt Binns- https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattbinns/2036385629
β’ Montezuma Oropendola: Andy Morffew- https://www.flickr.com/photos/canorus/4418694701
β’ Montezuma Oropendola: Paulo Philippidis-
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montezuma_Oropendola_(16426688906).jpg
Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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β’ Laughing Kookaburra: Toby Hudson-https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laughing_Kookaburra_Gravestone.jpg
β’ Laughing Kookaburra: JJ Harrison- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dacelo_novaeguineae_waterworks.jpg
β’ Jack Snipe: Marek Szczeponek- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lymnocryptes_minimus_(Marek_Szczepanek).jpg
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β’ Northern Lapwing: Andreas Trepte-
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Northern-Lapwing-Vanellus-vanellus.jpg
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