Birds Really Use Sound In The Craziest Ways.

Birds really use sound in the craziest ways.

King penguin chicks can hear a quarter of a second of their parents' call and know it is them. While surrounded by hundreds of other screaming birds.

White bellbirds produce a call that hits 125.4 decibels — the same volume as a whole-ass rock concert.

Common nightingales have between 150 and 200 distinct song types. Mostly used for seduction (who's surprised tbh?)

Parts of male zebra finch brains are 3-6 times larger than females to accommodate the complexity of their songs.

The cassowary head casque might have evolved primarily to act as a microphone to broadcast calls so low, us humans can't hear them. They even tilt their head down and forward to make the broadcast more effective.

Superb lyrebirds are probably the best mimics on Earth, and tailor their courtship dances to particular sounds they've "collected." They literally have a dance for the "song" of a chainsaw.

Truly bonkers shit these birds be doing with sound.