Sicklebill & Riflebird: Nonvocal Sounds

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To add to their voices, some birds make nonvocal sounds as a form of communication. A familiar example is the drumming of woodpeckers, which takes the place of a song. Sicklebills and riflebirds make knocking and rustling sounds with their wings, and there are hints that the shapes they adopt as they display may help funnel these sounds toward females, like a megaphone.
Filmed and photographed by Tim Laman, Ed Scholes and Eric Liner.
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[@vikasghorpade18]

Very beautiful sound

[@abbeykroeter]

Pretty sure the non-vocal sound from the sickle bill is coming from the front edge of the wings as he holds them close together, forward of his head. Watch as they rattle together much like the South American Manakin birds use the trailing edge of their wings in a similar way.

[@macmarty2025]

Great video, thank you.

[@FrankyboyLegend]

sounds like the Blue Bird of Paradise.

[@crappymeal]

Nice work

[@happyist3719]

3:40 Now if you could capture that with a high speed camera...

[@amydason9332]

Beautiful Birds... Wow pretty cool...GOD is Great!

[@richmondlandersenfells2238]

His creation truly reflects him and his character.

[@k.ravishankar5063]

awesome

[@stephaniec.4384]

What purpose do these nonvocal sounds serve? Do females inspect these sounds as well?

[@TheKillerConch]

Or maybe the curl crested manucode?

[@runawayuniverse]

Of the birds I've seen/heard in the videos here, the Curl-crested Manucode has the most UFO sounding vocalizations. I didn't see it hanging upside down though.

[@FrankyboyLegend]

hmm, he said "upside down" which is more consistent with the display of the blue bird of paradise.

[@oliverioespaillat6271]

Loooooove

[@ummuhammed7691]

سبحان الخالق العظيم

[@abbeykroeter]

I'm having a hard time finding the bird that made a "UFO sound" in a documentary I saw many years ago. Could you help me remember what it is? I vaguely remember the bird hanging upside-down and emitting a long, wavering complex buzzing that filled the forest with something eerily far from anything that sounded organic. Any clues?

[@doggocat4464]

abbeykroeter
I know this is 4 years old, but perhaps you were talking about the king of saxony bird of paradise

[@fashnek]

Curl-crested Manucode?

[@wigwagstudios2474]

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[@akiyamato3299]

The machine gun bird vs rifle bird 🤣

[@hambonehoney3105]

please use SUBTITLES !! so we can choose to only listen to the bird sound instead of the human man talking so much