5 Unearthly Bird Songs that You Won't Believe are Real!

[@SarahSabetti]

I love listening to veeries in the woods in the summer! My grandmother always made my father show her a bittern in Horicon Marsh.

[@BK-db3gc]

Wonderful video! Please do continue doing sound related segments, they’re really helpful. Maybe even just add in a sound clip of the call or song (when feasible) when you’re presenting birds in your usual segments. Thanks much. Love your channel!

[@markshen3280]

Good morning 🌅 to you from Hong Kong 🇭🇰 SAR. About half a year ago, as I was taking my morning birdwatching walk, I saw on two separate occasions - the Yellow Bittern (Chinese Bittern) near the mangrove area at the beachfront in the New Territories of Hong Kong 🇭🇰 SAR. The Yellow Bittern can be found from the Indian subcontinent to China 🇨🇳, Siberia, Japan 🇯🇵, Korea 🇰🇷, and Southeast Asia with the northern populations wintering south to Southeast Asia.

[@BadgerlandBirding]

@@markshen3280 very cool!

[@iamtheoceanr]

I love it. Great picks. I would add the Canyon Wren. Heard it in Dry Falls Washington for the first time and was blown away. The Swainsons Thrush with its "robotic" or "digital" sounding call is also one that gives me goosebumps.

[@nickpaarlberg73]

For me the 5 oddest I have heard irl or in a recording are the common loon, barn owl, eastern meadowlark, whip-poor-will, and yellow headed blackbird.

[@bmolitor615]

one martin by itself sounds like three or four having a spirited argument

[@BadgerlandBirding]

@@bmolitor615 haha that’s true 🤣

[@ChuckDarwin1909]

I think it's a little outside y'all's area of operations, but for me the most incredible and surreal song I've heard is by far the brown-backed solitaire. The recordings on Merlin don't really do it justice. If you're ever in central Mexico in the spring or summer, el Desierto de Leones is a must-see birding spot.

[@Sherryswaz]

I would include great tailed grackle or boat tailed grackle. they make some amazing sounds.

[@BadgerlandBirding]

Totally crazy noises for sure

[@olenskafanboy]

The hermit thrush's song also has that weird metallic vibe to it. Love it though.

[@gdcaliber4748]

The Swainson's Thrush song for me was always so unearthly and cryptic

[@ABirdersParadise]

When I was a child, my siblings and I always thought that the Varied Thrush was an elk bugle. I'd say that's a good list, especially with the American Bittern, but I'd also say Common Loon, Northern Pygmy-Owl, and Townsend's Solitaire have some calls that are a bit odd if you're not used to them. The last two took me a while to figure out what they were when I really started birding 5 years ago. I thought the pygmy-owl was some strange man-made machine beeping. :D

[@BadgerlandBirding]

Haha that’s funny! When did you finally figure the owl out?

[@ABirdersParadise]

@@BadgerlandBirding It finally called during the day instead of at night, so I managed to find it. It was probably a couple months later, but I don't rememember.

[@kiltguy18]

I always think the Yellow-headed Blackbird song is a mix of R2D2 and a toy train whistle.

[@BadgerlandBirding]

I think they sound like a dying cat 🤣

[@Oltoir]

Tho similar to the Veery, the Wood Thrush metallic call is worthy of this list too!

[@BadgerlandBirding]

Wood Thrush is a beautiful song but Veery is just straight up alien lol

[@kymberliX]

@@BadgerlandBirdingWe refer to the veery song as ‘dying Pac-Man’

[@BadgerlandBirding]

lol that’s fair

[@charlesbaker2511]

Black-chinned Sparrow has a weird electric vibrato sound

[@Beryllahawk]

Purple Martin made me instantly think about an old movie - the original Clash of the Titans (the Harryhausen one). In that, Athena sort of lends her owl to Perseus...or rather she gets a robot version of the owl to lend. And that thing didn't sound like ANY owl ever, haha!! It was cute and certainly worked fine for the film but until today I figured they just pulled some noises out of their imaginations!

[@PossiblyAHuman-d5j]

Willow Ptarmigan sounds are great.

[@BadgerlandBirding]

@@PossiblyAHuman-d5j is that the awebo?

[@PossiblyAHuman-d5j]

@@BadgerlandBirding Yup. I gotta go see this bird though (gotta leave the east coast)

[@TLW-pf6yq]

I agree. Heard some in Alaska last year. Makes me laugh whenever I listen to a recording of one.

[@michaelsimko7694]

A diving duck that I'm familiar with has a very weird call made by the male during its mating display. Male Hooded Mergansers make a weird, moaning, nasal, groaning 2 part call during their display. You also can't forget about the crazy, prehistoric call of the Sandhill Crane.

[@BadgerlandBirding]

Definitely an interesting one! Ducks and other water birds make a lot of weird noises, but people aren't usually around to hear it

[@AnnetteKapple]

The Great-Tailed Grackle makes some weird interesting noises.

[@BadgerlandBirding]

@@AnnetteKapple I think they sound like electricity ⚡️

[@NathanWebb-c5h]

The call of the American bittern also sounds like the gulps of a thirsty giant.

[@BadgerlandBirding]

@@NathanWebb-c5h I think that’s a fair description!

[@cairamj1928]

@badgerland birding was there an arrow sticking out of the side of the American Bittern?!???

[@BadgerlandBirding]

At 4:29? I think it’s a feather coming in

[@gregoryeditor6500]

Like 163, nicely recorded!

[@RedCloud-h6f]

kingfishers

[@robmetzger8616]

Sometimes house wrens sound like an old dial up modem to me.

[@BadgerlandBirding]

@@robmetzger8616 yeah I love their noises

[@jansalamon5265]

Hello United States of America 👋🦜🦅🦆🐦🦤❤

[@Shrock568]

The varied thrush sounds like a whale

[@BadgerlandBirding]

@@Shrock568 lol 🐳

[@suzettecalleja3122]

The map for number 4 bird was a different map then the others and difficult to make out the migration patterns of the bird. 😊

[@BadgerlandBirding]

Our map guy actually never made one for Bobolink so we had to improvise!