One thing cockatoos have in common, is their uncommonly loud call.
Sound is measured in decibels. Here are some examples of decibel levels of some common items:
It’s hard to believe, isn’t it? A cockatoo is as loud as a jackhammer!
Thanks Birdlady, I can vouch for the Sulphur Crested Cockatoo, yep, Cockatoo = Jackhammer, no sweat, but, jackhammers don’t hang out in flocks numbered in the 100’s, Cockatoos do.
Ah, the Shrieking Shitbag Bird. Common to everywhere people try to sleep. Interestingly, only the males actually shriek, so as to being the mating ritual, giving the female of the species a gift of human rage and anguish, which it will use to feed its young.
Fortunately (?) I am such a heavy sleeper that bird would have no chance of waking me.
However, I am somewhat nocturnal and in my part of the world we have birds that wander around in the middle of the night and their call goes something like:
I’m like that! There’s a (previously over sensitive) fire alarm right outside my bedroom door, and it apparently went off one night without my noticing at all.
We have birds who do that here in Pasadena, California at all times of the night. Not even one kind of bird. I’ve heard the wild parrots do it (yes, wild parrots), I’ve heard what I’m guessing are mockingbirds do it, and I’ve heard every other variety of bird in the neighborhood call, and shriek, and generally let the whole neighborhood know they were awake no matter what time of night it is.
9 thoughts on “#446 Birdsong”
Bazza
From the Land of Nopes
The Cockatoo, yes they love to vocalise especially at dawn and dusk and whenever the hell they want.
Extract from: http://birdladysecrets.com/training/Cockatoos-a-happy-too-is-a-happy-you.ag.php
One thing cockatoos have in common, is their uncommonly loud call.
Sound is measured in decibels. Here are some examples of decibel levels of some common items:
120 – jet plane at ramp
150 – jet plane taking off
170 – shotgun
130 – jackhammer
130 – cockatoo
It’s hard to believe, isn’t it? A cockatoo is as loud as a jackhammer!
Thanks Birdlady, I can vouch for the Sulphur Crested Cockatoo, yep, Cockatoo = Jackhammer, no sweat, but, jackhammers don’t hang out in flocks numbered in the 100’s, Cockatoos do.
Potatamoto
Ah, the Shrieking Shitbag Bird. Common to everywhere people try to sleep. Interestingly, only the males actually shriek, so as to being the mating ritual, giving the female of the species a gift of human rage and anguish, which it will use to feed its young.
Grantwhy
Fortunately (?) I am such a heavy sleeper that bird would have no chance of waking me.
However, I am somewhat nocturnal and in my part of the world we have birds that wander around in the middle of the night and their call goes something like:
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB8T0dV5YNA
I kind of like it (once I worked out where the sound was coming from), but they do freak some people out.
Esmeralda Anistasia
I’m like that! There’s a (previously over sensitive) fire alarm right outside my bedroom door, and it apparently went off one night without my noticing at all.
Meandoriandragon
For me it’s frogs or toads in the window wells of my basement bedroom. XP.
Man those things get great acoustics.
man in black
that would be the time to open the window and let the cat shut it up
Twinkle Toes the Berserker
We have birds who do that here in Pasadena, California at all times of the night. Not even one kind of bird. I’ve heard the wild parrots do it (yes, wild parrots), I’ve heard what I’m guessing are mockingbirds do it, and I’ve heard every other variety of bird in the neighborhood call, and shriek, and generally let the whole neighborhood know they were awake no matter what time of night it is.
I sleep with ear plugs for a reason.
william
yeah when the birds make too much noise kill the birds
i like that idea 🙂
Moyra
My neighbors have a bird that does this.
I have named it “Sesame Chicken” whenever I get my hands on it…
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