Make some noise for the white bellbirds of the Brazilian Amazon, now the bird species with the loudest known mating call. The team measured sound intensity from three pihas and eight bellbirds. Each ...

The Amazon rainforest is a deafeningly noisy place, a constant cacophony of jungle animals trying to make themselves heard. Amid the din, the male white bellbird has evolved a winning strategy—he may ...

Researchers working in the Amazon recently recorded the world’s loudest bird, the white bellbird, and it sounds like a klaxon you’d hear aboard a spaceship during battle. And while the white ...

Today’s source of unexpected joy comes from a part of the animal kingdom often foreshadowed by the puppies and kittens of the world: birds. Scientists have identified the world’s loudest bird which ...

AMHERST, Mass. - Biologist Jeff Podos at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with Mario Cohn-Haft at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil, report that they have recorded the ...

Researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on October 21 have captured the loudest bird calls yet documented. The calls are the mating songs of male white bellbirds, which live atop ...