American Robins often make a mumbled cuck or tuk to communicate with each other or a sharp yeep or peek as an alarm call. They also make a repeated chirr that rises in volume and can sound like a laugh or chuckle.
Burrowing Owl
A group of them is called a parliament. The Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia) is a western owl with an isolated population in Florida. These small owls have a rapid call that can sound like laughter. The high-pitched, twittering notes are preceded by a screech and have a hollow quality.
The laughing kookaburra is known as the “bushman's alarm clock” because it has a very loud call, usually performed by a family group at dawn and dusk, that sounds like a variety of trills, chortles, belly laughs, and hoots. The call starts and ends with a low chuckle and has a shrieking “laugh” in the middle.
The Laughing Kookaburra native to eastern Australia makes a very familiar call sounding like raucous laughter. Their call is used to establish territory among family groups, most often at dawn and dusk.
The distinct voice of the Kookaburra sounds like human laughing— some people think!
The laughing kookaburra of Australia is known for its call, which sounds like a cackling laugh.
kookaburra, also called laughing kookaburra or laughing jackass, (species Dacelo novaeguineae), eastern Australian bird of the kingfisher family (Alcedinidae), whose call sounds like fiendish laughter.
Vocalizations. The monotonous, repetitive call of the Common Ground-Dove brings to mind sultry and languid Southern summers, when the species' plaintive call is often heard; hence the colloquial name “moaning” dove.
The Bird that Sounds like a Woman Screaming-Curlew Call- Burhinus grallarius-Stone Bush Curlew-FNQ - YouTube.
Willie Wagtails often sing through the night, especially in spring and summer and on moonlit nights. Recorded in Wollemi National Park, New South Wales. Willie Wagtail Calls & Song. The sounds of a Willie Wagtail singing in the Australian bush.
The laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) is a bird in the kingfisher subfamily Halcyoninae. It is a large robust kingfisher with a whitish head and a brown eye-stripe. The upperparts are mostly dark brown but there is a mottled light-blue patch on the wing coverts.
This night-time whistler's a Northern Saw-whet Owl [http://macaulaylibrary.org/audio/130470, 0.14 – 20]. We like to think that owls only hoot, but these sound a lot like human whistles and are easy to copy.
Laughing Kookaburras are the largest Kingfisher in the world. Its laugh is used to signal their territory to other birds. They live in families, with siblings remaining in the family till they are old enough to look after themselves. They also act as helpers during the breeding season.
😆 Laughing kookaburras are native to Australia, and. their call has been used as a sound effect in jungle. movies for many years, where it sounds like a group of. monkeys.
XC340124 This first recording features typical song from a male Australian Golden Whistler (Pachycephala pectoralis youngi) – a series of near identical short phrases, each containing 7-9 clear alternating whistled notes which build in volume and end with two sharper, louder notes.
Echo the Lyrebird
Perhaps the most famous example of a Superb lyrebird crying like a baby is Echo, who lives at the Taronga Zoo in New South Wales, Australia.
Whining and moaning noises, generally at night, can most often be attributed to coons or porcupines. Young coons fight and play among themselves and are punished by their parents for infractions of local house rules, with a fine collection of outcries invariably resulting. Snuffling and grunting could be a bear.
It is well known as the “laughing” kookaburra. Its loud call sounds like mocking human laughter, which starts low goes high and loud, then drops low again. The laughing call can be anywhere from a soft chuckle to a loud cackle.
Spotted hyenas produce multiple different vocalizations, each of which means something distinct for the listener. The “laughter” vocalization for which they are known is a high-pitched series of short gigglelike sounds.
Laughing Dove The chuckling call is a low rolling croo-doo-doo-doo-doo with a rising and falling amplitude. The species is usually seen in pairs or small parties and only rarely in larger groups. Larger groups are formed especially when drinking at waterholes in arid regions.
Laughing kookaburra
This nostalgic Australian icon can be found in open forests across the country, particularly in gumtrees, and are often heard in suburbs around the Adelaide Hills. Its loud cackle of 'koo-koo-koo-koo-koo-kaa-kaa-kaa' is often sung in a chorus with other kookaburras.
Kookaburras
Its famous call is generally heard at dawn and dusk, being used to establish territorial boundaries as well as for mating, contact and as a danger signal.
For those unfamiliar with the peculiarities of Australian avifauna, tawny frogmouths are quite possibly the country's strangest-looking bird. (Although the brushturkeys give them a run for their money.) And two of them happen to roost on my porch railing.