Ugliest birds/bird sounds ever

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There just so… loud.

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I can imagine a close up… But from afar its not too bad.

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I forgot white bellbirds! Their bell-ringing call is AAH!

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for me, the neighbours budgerigars in their cage under their verandah about 10m from my bedroom window, at 6am after a hot night when I have the window ajar and had a late night on the rum. A very ugly sound… any other night it is their windchimes that seem to make noise even without wind!

But seriously, I don’t think I’ve ever heard or seen an ugly bird…

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Hoatzins are OK but go-away birds are not welcoming (both metaphorically and literally; they technically say “go away” :joy: :joy: :joy: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:)!

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As a bird lover, the one thing in birds that genuinely fills me with revulsion are the mouths of estrilid finch chicks. Definitely faces only a mother could love!

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those are some beautiful calls

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Yes, though those from Tyranni are definitely totally different from singing passerids.

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The great blue heron looks so regal and majestic when it stands in a pond, staring at you with its piercing yellow eye.

Then it starts flying, and all of a sudden it sounds like a deranged old man trying to imitate a parrot.

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European Gray Herons are the same! Very startling calls.

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Passeri, the songbirds, have tweets and chirps and scratches, but Tyranni, little weird.

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Heron calls are gross, yes, but anyone has suggestions that are downright bizzare?

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Altricial chicks are gross, yes.

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But precocial chicks are ADORABLE!!!

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I know quoting, but we can reply to more than one?

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yes

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I think the system suggested it but I forgot…

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:-) thanks

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Those aren’t too bad, however. The family Cotingidae has WIERD calls and some even LOOK bizzare.

Edit: those photos are of Cotingas.