Imagine a sound vaguely like a cricket or grasshopper
The high, insect-like reeling song of the grasshopper warbler is the best clue to its presence. Even when you hear one it can be difficult to locate it due to the ventriloquial effect of its singing.
A Kookaburra Call or Laugh
The distinct voice of the Kookaburra sounds like human laughing— some people think!
Despite being often derided with distaste, the tenacious 'tip turkey' has risen among the ranks. It's the Australian white ibis; more commonly known as the 'bin chicken'.
Brown-headed Nuthatches don't sing complicated songs, but they are plenty vocal. They make tiny squeaks that sound like a toy rubber ducky being squeezed. These wheezy 2-syllable notes emanate from the treetops year-round. They repeat each squeak 1–12 times.
Katydids and crickets are excellent examples of nighttime noise-making insects. These insects, which belong to the same Order (Orthoptera) make noises in similar ways: by rubbing their wings together. These insects usually make their high pitched chirping noise at night to attract mates or to warn off predators.
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
While walking through the Forest, you may hear sounds like sneakers squeaking on a gymnasium floor. These are the call notes of the rose-breasted grosbeak. Take a few minutes to look and listen and maybe the bird will sing its rich whistle-like song.
Common Gallinules make all sorts of chickenlike clucks, whinnies, cackles, squawks, and yelps. They often call while hidden from view, leaving you wondering what lurks in the marsh.
To persuade females to come close, the male lyrebird sings the most complex song he can manage. And he does that by copying the sounds of all the other birds he hears around him – including the sounds of chainsaws and camera shutters!
Lewin's Honeyeaters are perhaps best known for their main territorial song, a loud machine-gun like rattle which carries quite along way, so they are more often heard than seen.
The loud, distinctive call of the laughing kookaburra is widely used as a stock sound effect in situations that involve an Australian bush setting or tropical jungle, especially in older movies.
"You're not hearing things, our resident lyrebird Echo has the AMAZING ability to replicate a variety of calls - including a baby's cry." Echo is a superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae), an Australian bird named for the shape of its tail during courting, according to Britannica.
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Black jacobin hummingbirds make unique high-frequency sounds that they may not even hear themselves, according to a new study.
LAUREL SYMES: People sometimes describe night-calling insects as cicadas. But typically, cicadas call during the day, and what we're hearing at night are crickets and katydids.
Crickets: chirp
Crickets, like birds, say chirp. Many crickets chirping together make a beautiful sound.
Spotted Catbirds are named for their bizarre cat-like wailing calls (some say it sounds more like a baby crying!) which are a common sound of both lowland and higher altitude rainforests within their range.
Birds often learn to mimic other birds and sounds they hear, like Australia's Superb lyrebird which can imitate chainsaws and car alarms.
The Australian Golden Whistler (Pachycephala pectoralis) is a common songbird found in woodlands and forests throughout east and south-eastern Australia, as well as the south-west.
Starlings are our most talkative birds. The finest starling communicators have up to 35 separate songs, along with 14 clicking sounds. The species are also excellent mimics.
The laughing kookaburra of Australia is known for its call, which sounds like a cackling laugh.
Reproductively active birds (both males and females) will demonstrate their desire to breed by performing a variety of activities (including clucking and flapping) designed to attract a mate, often while simultaneously masturbating on a perch, a toy or even an owner's hand.
There is another bird, the yellow-headed blackbird, that has a call that sounds like a heavy door swinging on squeaky hinges.
That “squeaky wheel” is the signature sound of the Black-and-white Warbler, Mniotilta varia, a migrating songbird and summer resident in the deciduous and mixed forests of North Carolina and much of the Eastern United States.
Common Grackles make a variety of squeaks, whistles, and croaks. The typical song, made by both males and females, is a guttural readle-eak accompanied by high-pitched, clear whistles. It lasts just less than a second and is often described as sounding like a rusty gate.