My merlin app said the bird I was hearing was an orange-crowned warbler. I'd never heard of it before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVSJoL-oS3I Sounded like 30 seconds into this vid
Once heard an urban Mockingbird do an entire car alarm sequence without a single mistake, and then repeat it. Not something you’d hear in the wild jungle of the Amazon Forest.
Oh yeah, I remember the Australian Magpie, this sampling does not truly reflect the beautiful song that they can come out with. Never heard anything like it before and if I had been a bit more experienced with my cell, I might have got a recording of one bird's song, if my cell even had a recorder on it in 2000. But if you get to the Daintree Rainforest, you don't have to worry until you hear a cassowary's song, then run like fuck and hope you make it.
I actually have heard the Australian Magpie; on the BigStackD YouTube channel. He's a metal recycler that disassembles scrap & melts it into gorgeous bars. Even tells you how much each melt is worth.
Plus there's usually at least 30 seconds of his dogs. 🥰
I love that I have magpies singing to me every morning and night, and kookaburras and Rosellas. Then the cockies come flying in just fucking "leeeeeeroy jenkinnnnns" with its dinosaur noises
Rosellas are the best! They make the cutest noises, and they go nuts in the birdbath, water everywhere. I love them so much. Maggies too of course, such pretty song and funny personalities.
Rosellas are very dumb though. I used to have tame king parrots around but haven't seen them since last winter, a bit worried Mr shooty mcgun up the road has gotten to them. He likes shooting at birds, which means most of the birds around here take a lot of work to tame. Even after 2 years of hand feeding the magpies don't fully trust me
A family member of mine raised one that fell out of an unknown nest, it had these white tufts on either side of its head as a baby so they named him Gustav. It heard it so much that it would say GUUUUStav, GUUUUStav. Also "Ew yuck," whenever a cat walked by.
They pick up car alarm noises and setting bleeps real quick, and also phone bells from extension speakers, like might be mounted external to a portacabin site office.
we've got a family that mimics distressed kittens. We guess one of them picked up the sound and the others picked it up from them. Took us a couple of years to figure out what bird was making the sound.
Who the fuck hasn't heard a gull before? Those bastards are all over the place, including hell, where they spawned from. Yeah yeah, I know, "username does not check out". Gulls are bastards though, fight me.
one time a huge seagull was harrassing me while i prepped a really biiig bass, so i threw him the whole skin and tail as one piece and he somehow horked the whole thing down in one go. but then he was too full to fly and flopped off like an idiot while we all laughed.
I know what it is to sit on a bench at the boardwalk, staring into the eager eyes of a seagull and conveying with my gaze that any move to seize the Polish dog from my hand will spark a struggle of epic proportions, a battle to the death and possibly beyond.
Fuck yeah they’re bastards. The proof is in the netting in the garage I park at. One oidgrin had rhe misforune of getting caught in the netting (to keep birds out), gulls immediately pounced and tore it limb from limb.. It’s disturbing to now see a headless, gutless pigeon just hanging there amid a flurry of feathers and a lot of bloodstains. Those same gulls will also demolish any and all trashbag they run into. Bastards, all of them.
Sure. But when you spend your workday fending them off, but they keep coming back, again and again and again, and there's 15,000 of them, you start to feel different.
Many landlocked places maybe haven't heard it l. I'll also submit that movies and TV replace a lot of nature sounds, so people never hear the actual sound.
Lions and eagles are a good example. Lion roars are often actually tiger noises. Eagle sounds are frequently replaced for hawk calls.
Ahh Seagulls, there was a time in the Early Internet I'd convinced a bunch of American's that they were the National Bird of Canada, except we gave them a more 'deserving name' The Great White North American Shit Hawk! For a time I considered that NO ONE is that dumb, and they were probably trolling me... But the last few years.... I'd say I have a fifty-fifty shot that for the last 23 years a handful of American Idiots have been telling their friends the fun fact, about Canada's National Bird.
I think we take for granted that we live or have traveled somewhere with gulls. There are many places that have none (like central America inlands). Land Gulls are different from Sea Gulls.
Gulls is gulls. Seagulls is bad nomenclature. They're all gulls, and they're all bastards. I do like Bonaparte gulls though. They're the only ones that nest in trees. I'll read your links later, thank you.
When I saw an inland "common" gull (Larus canus) for the first time, I was so confused, they were not even half as big as what I, from the Baltic coast, think of as a "normal" gull (European herring gull, Larus argentatus). It's like rats and mice, hares and rabbits - they look the same until you get close and then one is just so tiny? If a real gull steals your fish sandwich out of your hand you feel lucky you still have a hand after.
I was raised to admire Seagulls (Utah's state bird....they supposedly saved the settlers from locust/grasshoppers who were eating the scarce crops) until I saw one land on the back of some other waterfowl and literally peck the internals out from between the poor thing's shoulder blades while still alive. It scarred me for life🖕🏻
because the resources needed to save one species could go towards so many others that have a better chance of surviving but they made the panda the fucking symbol of the WWF so there is no way they can let them go extinct.
Funny you should bring up money. Pandas actually bring in way more money than they need, and the excess goes to helping species that don't make cute plushies for kids to play with.
I think they're just very worthless creatures. Imagine a bear that goes vegan and decides to eat the worst shit in the woods, bambu. And they have to eat so much of it that they don't even fuck.
theskepticinme
excableguy
My merlin app said the bird I was hearing was an orange-crowned warbler. I'd never heard of it before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVSJoL-oS3I Sounded like 30 seconds into this vid
Dannyalcatraz
About 1/3 of those birds I have heard.
TexMexHex
Grey Peacock Pheasant. Never seen one. Very cool.
ItsActuallyDavidNow
Sheet Jesus in a birchbark canoe! That’s what a gull sounds like?!
GentlemanScientist
Yes. Now imagine that times 100 and you have an average summer's day at the beach.
drduffer
Once heard an urban Mockingbird do an entire car alarm sequence without a single mistake, and then repeat it.
Not something you’d hear in the wild jungle of the Amazon Forest.
DriverIRQnotlessOrEqual
Didn’t know Dot matrix printers were a descendant of the Toucan
ItHappenedInThe20thCentury
of course the Aussie bird sounds like a fucking lion
nelllybellly1
Australian Bustard's voice is still the same as when it's ancestors were dinosaurs.
DarkJaeger
I know seagulls. Annoying fuckers
FoxPesdassi
Yup. They will 100% poke you in the coconut.
theyallwenttoMexico
I haven't heard most of them before.
NancyReaganSchoolOfGawk
@RavingIrradiator213
RavingIrradiator213
Those are some neat birds
JT1984
"Bird sounds you probably never heard before, like a seagull, or a starling, or a magpie." Dafuq? Does OP think we're living in a cave?
Chronomechanist
Damn, Alan Tudyk is talented.
DJOldguy
Oh yeah, I remember the Australian Magpie, this sampling does not truly reflect the beautiful song that they can come out with. Never heard anything like it before and if I had been a bit more experienced with my cell, I might have got a recording of one bird's song, if my cell even had a recorder on it in 2000. But if you get to the Daintree Rainforest, you don't have to worry until you hear a cassowary's song, then run like fuck and hope you make it.
FeloniousMonk13
They're all good birbs, Bront
busterfixxitt
I actually have heard the Australian Magpie; on the BigStackD YouTube channel. He's a metal recycler that disassembles scrap & melts it into gorgeous bars. Even tells you how much each melt is worth.
Plus there's usually at least 30 seconds of his dogs. 🥰
Anfalicious
I love that I have magpies singing to me every morning and night, and kookaburras and Rosellas. Then the cockies come flying in just fucking "leeeeeeroy jenkinnnnns" with its dinosaur noises
judgingyou
Rosellas are the best! They make the cutest noises, and they go nuts in the birdbath, water everywhere. I love them so much. Maggies too of course, such pretty song and funny personalities.
Anfalicious
Rosellas are very dumb though. I used to have tame king parrots around but haven't seen them since last winter, a bit worried Mr shooty mcgun up the road has gotten to them. He likes shooting at birds, which means most of the birds around here take a lot of work to tame. Even after 2 years of hand feeding the magpies don't fully trust me
SacrificialClam
#1 thick knees? Who mames these things
HydraNine
*black vulture noises intensify* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18C8M_dSg4M
TheMellowPeril
Some of them could (should?) be mixed together as a techno track
TheLookAndFeelMUSIC
We need that bloke with the small round sunglasses. You know the one.
karcain
good ol' kookaburra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti9af-N5aJE
FluffykinsTheDestroyer
WHO HAS NEVER HEARD A GULL?
Override9636
Rural country far from the ocean, and too poor to travel. I probably didn't hear a gull in person until I was in college.
ItHappenedInThe20thCentury
That must've been a weird class. Hope you passed.
Maboroshi1994
i moved from ireland to western australia, their seagulls sound like crows
Squaba13
I assume people in places where there's not a nearby large body of water.... Or a garbage dump.
DSREX
I have seen seagulls at dumps in the middle of MT. No idea how they found it or how they survive the winters.
OshakhenneseyAyAyRonandJayQuelin
Some of those gave me dial up 56 kbps modem flash backs.
Starlatan
Needs more Awebo
tinydog
Batman1702
https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1Znp4eXVhNm9zaG42ZHVxa3RlNXJ5Zmw5amRidzV0djU2cjYzcWsxOCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/11FiDF2fuOujPG/200w.webp
AshQetchum
I came here for this!
Babadook324
I've seen this so many times and yet somehow it always brings the same amount of joy every time it pops up again
BrotherOwl
Nice
Rockafella83
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTY1YjkxZmJlN3FseWE4MnRyd3N1MDZ5YTV4OXhzazFoeWJ6M3dkejJvZ3JqbXE0ZiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/3ohzdNgOHuL2u8N5UA/giphy.mp4
holgerdk
Technobirb!
ispendtomuchtimehere
starlings have an amazing array of sounds even though I am not a fan I like the sounds.
rorens
They’re very good mimics!
Perkunas687
A family member of mine raised one that fell out of an unknown nest, it had these white tufts on either side of its head as a baby so they named him Gustav. It heard it so much that it would say GUUUUStav, GUUUUStav. Also "Ew yuck," whenever a cat walked by.
theskepticinme
ItHappenedInThe20thCentury
impressive
MrStealYourGiF
They pick up car alarm noises and setting bleeps real quick, and also phone bells from extension speakers, like might be mounted external to a portacabin site office.
achriya
we've got a family that mimics distressed kittens. We guess one of them picked up the sound and the others picked it up from them. Took us a couple of years to figure out what bird was making the sound.
betelgeux
yup - had one that mimicked my old motorola phone ringtone. Little bugger had all kinds of fun driving me up the wall that summer.
HawkmanXLII
Who the fuck hasn't heard a gull before? Those bastards are all over the place, including hell, where they spawned from. Yeah yeah, I know, "username does not check out". Gulls are bastards though, fight me.
Maboroshi1994
funnily enough...not australians, i moved from Ireland to western australia and the seagulls sound like crows
heironymousBonk
one time a huge seagull was harrassing me while i prepped a really biiig bass, so i threw him the whole skin and tail as one piece and he somehow horked the whole thing down in one go. but then he was too full to fly and flopped off like an idiot while we all laughed.
mjrosenb
I agree that gulls are bastards. That being said, I was very happy to see a gull chowing down on the innards of a pigeon.
chris3spice
Gulls are perks, didn't have them in Kansas but I am at their mercy here in Alaska
awkungen42
They're giant rats that need to be exorcised back to the fiery pit.
shyriath
I know what it is to sit on a bench at the boardwalk, staring into the eager eyes of a seagull and conveying with my gaze that any move to seize the Polish dog from my hand will spark a struggle of epic proportions, a battle to the death and possibly beyond.
Anfalicious
"Got any chips m8?" Fuck gulls
Lachwen
Starlings are also bastards. Noisy, messy, destructive invasive species here in North America. Fuck starlings.
9z2nf02h
It's there so people will comment about how common it is and drive up engagement
bydand724
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1eTJ1YzhhYTdqZ3l1dmRmbG94Y2t0bDhtb2J2Mzk2cXVpZXRnbHo5NyZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/Ll1rEkDebTIdO/200w.webp
RoboUnicornFishBalls
Waschbaerkoenig
gulls and yellojackets stem from the same place in hell
ComicSansHasToDie
I thought that at first, and then I guessed it was some basic "let's create easy engagement on my social profile"
HawkmanXLII
I mean, it's a social media site.
graceinsheepsclothing
Oh they will
MrPoopyPantz
Shit-hawks
HawkmanXLII
Indeed, Randy.
JT1984
I had a seagull steal a fish right out of my hands while I was fileting it. Asshole stole my dinner.
ToenailClippingsJar
Fuck yeah they’re bastards. The proof is in the netting in the garage I park at.
One oidgrin had rhe misforune of getting caught in the netting (to keep birds out), gulls immediately pounced and tore it limb from limb.. It’s disturbing to now see a headless, gutless pigeon just hanging there amid a flurry of feathers and a lot of bloodstains.
Those same gulls will also demolish any and all trashbag they run into. Bastards, all of them.
SpeakerToLampposts
No argument there. Obligatory:
imjustheretoholdyourhandwhenyoudie
"including hell, where they spawned from" made me laugh out loud ahaahahahahaha well put
PeteyVonWho
I live in southern Ohio, and my town is literally named after gulls. They are in fact everywhere
TheRicM
They look quite majestic when following them in flight through some binoculars
HawkmanXLII
Sure. But when you spend your workday fending them off, but they keep coming back, again and again and again, and there's 15,000 of them, you start to feel different.
SteerpikeSteerpike
Many landlocked places maybe haven't heard it l. I'll also submit that movies and TV replace a lot of nature sounds, so people never hear the actual sound.
Lions and eagles are a good example. Lion roars are often actually tiger noises. Eagle sounds are frequently replaced for hawk calls.
warhamma
It’s called engagement bait, it worked
HawkmanXLII
Yes! A round of points for me and my friends!
ElChupaNuggra
Ahh Seagulls, there was a time in the Early Internet I'd convinced a bunch of American's that they were the National Bird of Canada, except we gave them a more 'deserving name' The Great White North American Shit Hawk! For a time I considered that NO ONE is that dumb, and they were probably trolling me... But the last few years.... I'd say I have a fifty-fifty shot that for the last 23 years a handful of American Idiots have been telling their friends the fun fact, about Canada's National Bird.
CyberHexx
That's because you haven't harnessed them as minions for shenanigans.
duhqueenmoki
I think we take for granted that we live or have traveled somewhere with gulls. There are many places that have none (like central America inlands). Land Gulls are different from Sea Gulls.
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HawkmanXLII
Gulls is gulls. Seagulls is bad nomenclature. They're all gulls, and they're all bastards. I do like Bonaparte gulls though. They're the only ones that nest in trees. I'll read your links later, thank you.
dasklaus
When I saw an inland "common" gull (Larus canus) for the first time, I was so confused, they were not even half as big as what I, from the Baltic coast, think of as a "normal" gull (European herring gull, Larus argentatus). It's like rats and mice, hares and rabbits - they look the same until you get close and then one is just so tiny? If a real gull steals your fish sandwich out of your hand you feel lucky you still have a hand after.
DoctorWookie
Gull Dukat disagrees... but then again, he would.
YouWereSupposedToBeBulletPoints
I was raised to admire Seagulls (Utah's state bird....they supposedly saved the settlers from locust/grasshoppers who were eating the scarce crops) until I saw one land on the back of some other waterfowl and literally peck the internals out from between the poor thing's shoulder blades while still alive. It scarred me for life🖕🏻
Allusernamesaretakensoichoosethis
Yeah, they are good at surviving.
ionicseraph
Especially considering they're SEAgulls living in a landlocked state
HawkmanXLII
It's good to raise kids to admire wildlife in general. Then let be scarred and form their own opinions later.
AlxEverett
I love the cries of seagulls, reminds me of good times at beaches. But, they have stolen my fries.
GentlemanScientist
Do you live away from the ocean? Here, they start screeching at 5am every day from March to October.
HawkmanXLII
Say that after trying to keep 15,000 of them away from a landfill.
AlxEverett
https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTY1YjkxZmJlZTBnZ2I2ZGx2OTJ2azFveXBsY3Q1ajg5cjUyMjM1NXdidDQ3aWh0aiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/bKOMOALqH5UEUP0afv/giphy.mp4
SaturnineCult
Yeah I hate seagulls almost as much as I hate pandas.
DrPepper523
Wh....why would you hate pandas? They're just dumb fluff cuddlers
lpooptoomuch
because the resources needed to save one species could go towards so many others that have a better chance of surviving but they made the panda the fucking symbol of the WWF so there is no way they can let them go extinct.
Allusernamesaretakensoichoosethis
You're sort of missing the point...
KinetoPlay
Funny you should bring up money. Pandas actually bring in way more money than they need, and the excess goes to helping species that don't make cute plushies for kids to play with.
SaturnineCult
I think they're just very worthless creatures. Imagine a bear that goes vegan and decides to eat the worst shit in the woods, bambu. And they have to eat so much of it that they don't even fuck.
Bonana
Counterpoint: Koalas
mksu
It was doing fine until humans stole all of its habitat.
hipifreq
I will die on that hill by your side.
LetTheWorldBurnSinceNoOneFFFingCares
And me!
Poco3o
A swift yet poopy death
mikeatike
From being attacked by gulls.
sekanna
Aye, and me with you.
HawkmanXLII
I have warriors for the resistance. They are trained to hunt gulls
SchrodingersDictator
A gull once stole my pizza. I will join this war.
thricebakedxyz
A gull cut my finger open to get the fries I was holding for them. SMH
hipifreq
A gull once bit my sister
akrabbim
Mind you, gull bites can be pretti nasti...
imnotinthewitnessprotectionprogram
Did she get better or was she turned into a newt?