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We're being attacked! Or is that just a bird? Ornithologist Ed Scholes explains.

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[alfred]

I want to see a battle between Lyre bird's laser gun and brown Sicklebill's Machine gun

[ultrad-rex]

This bird is called a Sicklebill bird. I think it makes that sound by snapping its beak together.

[tahirabrar]

we have to use this bird in world war 3

[missionpupa]

Sounds like Contra when you get the lazer ammo

[lath]

When the grass starts speaking Vietnamese

[CozmixYT]

Nobody:
That one quiet bird in the flock:

[timbaland]

Sounds like someone is trying to turn up the volume on their mac.

[veryspeciallady]

One outside my window n first time hearing it. Glad to find I didn't hear something that someone else hasn't as well

[JOEAPPLE]

Not only ghost tells a story, birds too

[SomeoneCommenting]

May sound like a machine gun for someone who has never heard one, but it doesn't sound like a real one at all. More like a toy laser gun.

[MikhailKalashnikovMiG]

flagged for misleading title. Birds did not carry any machine guns

[LEgGOdt]

If you think the sight of Japanese Soldiers jumping for cover at the sound of that bird’s call is funny, then you should look up “The Battle of Ramree Island” or as it is more better called… The Ramree Massacre when the Japanese Troops that retreated into the mangrove swamp were attacked by Saltwater Crocodiles.

[twinkletoes]

sounds like a suppressed mp5 from an 80's movie

[ThatAMGguy]

Please don't get one near a Lyrebird

[AbuZahi]

Sounds like a machine gun shooting lasers.

[graemesydney]

It sounds like a bird to me - and the speaker sounds like a goose.

[IanHollis]

Sounds more like old-school video game laser sound to me.  :-)

[alexrex]

that's the beauty of opinions. we don't always have to agree with them.

[RebeccaWoyengu-yy]

I see these birds in my backyard, they are amazing

[angelialvares]

maybe it's the birds who mimic the sound of machine guns from hearing them so often in the area