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

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[jasperjryley]

this is truly a hidden gem of the internet. i didn’t know i needed these weird bird sounds but i’m so glad i found them. thank you close encounters of the bird kind

[ecklynn]

So when in horror movies they hear a terrifying hellish sound and say: "calm down, it may be a bird or something" it's not actually so stupid

[billycasper]

Whoever named that "Go away" bird was a Legend 😂

[zestfulmaple]

I came here looking for inspiration for dinosaur noises and came out with ideas for Sci Fi devices....birds are weird

[CalvinHikes]

After years and years of hiking and hearing creepy noises in the woods one thing I've learned... It's always a bird!

[kikoaxure]

7:14 Bruh, the bass on that bird is insane

[TriiipleTake]

1:30 everybody gansta till the birds start shootin

[av]

2:49 I was expecting a bass drop after that

[awepossum]

The thing about bird calls is that their sounds can remind you of home. Each region of the planet has its own unique set of bird species, so a unique set of sounds you can hear during the day, and that sound just gets imprinted into your mind forever.

[hedonyable]

Most birds: Weird sound
Brown Sicklebill: Machine gun

[Killbayne]

Little brother: _punches me_
Me: _lightly punches back_
Little brother: 4:44

[Cthight]

06:45 every airport security gate be like.

[--]

A flock of brown sicklebills would sound like a paintball competition.

[Cloverkitty]

Hearing all these calls always makes me wonder how the earth sounded millions of years ago when dinos still wandered around.

[abradolflincler]

2:50 that’s how my Grandpa’s tractor starts

[mayhemmcfly]

Lyrebird: I see _ALL OF YOU_ and raise.

Proceeds to mimic all other bird calls perfectly and mixes in construction equipment, circular saws, pneumatic hammers, car alarms, SLR and motor drive cameras, and children's toys.

[VHDT]

3:15 the Jack Snipe sounds like it's absorbing something's life energy.

[hotaruishere]

0:43
My dude be sounding like a hair razor running out of batteries.

[kailiann]

This was amazing. Not only because I can now put faces to the sounds I always hear, but because its so fascinating how different birds can sound!

[sharkpilled]

3:29 is some kind of underground alien rave