{"id":20911,"date":"2022-09-30T11:20:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T09:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/?p=68272"},"modified":"2022-09-30T11:36:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T09:36:12","slug":"whats-the-loudest-bird","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/rss_feed\/whats-the-loudest-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the loudest bird?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Stuart Blackman\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 30 September 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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There\u2019s nothing like the sweet sound of birdsong and its easy to think that the sound of all bird calls is a beautiful music experience. Indeed hasn\u2019t the sound of\u00a0 birdsong inspired some of our greatest composers<\/a><\/strong>?<\/p>\n

What is the loudest bird?<\/h2>\n
But that\u2019s not always the case. S<\/span>ome birds tweet, others cackle, squawk or honk. However it\u2019s harder to put a name to the ear-splitting sound produced by the male white bellbird, a curious Amazonian species that also sports a prominent, comedy wattle dangling from above its beak, but it\u2019s something like the two-tone horn of a fast train approaching a station.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<h3>How do they make that deafening sound?<\/h3>\n<p class=\""p1"\"><span class=\""s1"\">Producing the song requires the birds to generate such huge internal pressures that if it weren\u2019t for their extra-thick abdominal muscles, they might literally burst. Unfathomably, females of the species find the noise attractive, which is fortunate because the males are prone to bellow right in their faces when sharing a perch. How the females avoid hearing damage is still not understood.<br\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s <a class=\""standard-card-newarticle-title"\" href=\""https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/how-to\/identify-wildlife\/how-to-identify-bird-song\/"\">how to identify bird song and bird calls <\/a>and <a class=\""standard-card-newarticle-title"\" href=\""https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/how-to\/identify-wildlife\/how-to-identify-common-feathers\/"\">\u00a0identify bird feathers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<section class=\""highlight\"><div class=\""highlight__content\" editor-content=\"\"> \n<h4>More bird questions answered<\/h4>\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/birds\/poisonous-birds\/"\">Are there any poisonous birds?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/birds\/how-do-birds-eggs-form\/"\">How do birds\u2019 eggs form?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/how-to\/identify-wildlife\/how-to-identify-birds-eggs\/"\">How to identify birds\u2019 eggs<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/birds\/why-is-oil-so-bad-for-birds-feathers\/"\">Why is oil so bad for birds\u2019 feathers?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul><p> <\/p><\/div> <\/section><p><em>Main image: <span class=\""s1"\">Male white bellbird \u00a9 <\/span>Hector Bottai from S\u00e3o Paulo, Brasil, CC BY-SA 2.0, via <a href=\""https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/"\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Stuart Blackman Published: Friday, 30 September 2022 at 12:00 am There\u2019s nothing like the sweet sound of birdsong and its easy to think that the sound of all bird calls is a beautiful music experience. 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