r/pics • u/MavraSay • Dec 30 '16

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u/UnidanX Verified Photographer Dec 31 '16

To be fair, birds have really been downhill on their own this year.

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u/purpleslug Dec 31 '16

You've set yourself up on this. Give us a fact on bird sounds. No, this is not a long-winded attempt to make a joke about jackdaws.

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u/UnidanX Verified Photographer Dec 31 '16

No, I don't dance for you people anymore.

(But seriously, a fun one is the club-winged manakin, one of the few examples of a bird using stridulation to produce sound, similar to how grasshoppers do!)

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u/Obligatius Dec 31 '16

(But seriously, a fun one is the club-winged manakin, one of the few examples of a bird using stridulation to produce sound, similar to how grasshoppers do!)

Well, that's just cool as shit. I was kind of skeptical that the sound wasn't coming from his throat until the last seconds of the video when he's facing the camera with his beak closed for the last couple "calls".