Steve - @Doctor_Dave Watson over at Twitter says "noisy scrub birds also
ear-splitting at close range--a mate reckons they're so loud because
they're deaf because they're so loud!" ... which opens another question -
why don't loud birds go deaf?
On 8 March 2015 at 20:13, Steve Clark <> wrote:
> G’day Bob
>
> I once approached a Superb Lyrebird nest on a bank adjacent to a track in
> Kinglake NP, Vic and the alarm call from the chick inside was ear-splitting.
>
> Cheers
> Steve Clark
> Hamilton, Vic
>
> > On 8 Mar 2015, at 9:38 pm, Bob Gosford <> wrote:
> >
> > All,
> >
> > I seem to have started something here ... Dave Watson reckons that White
> > Bellbirds & Noisy Scrub Birds are pretty noisy but for mine a family of
> > Blue-winged Kookburras at close quarters is the loudest bird I've heard
> in
> > a while.
> >
> > My blog post is here "The loudest bird in the world? The Blue-winged
> > Kookaburra, *Dacelo leachii*
> > <
> http://blogs.crikey.com.au/northern/2015/03/08/the-loudest-bird-in-the-world-the-blue-winged-kookaburra-dacelo-leachii/
> >
> > "
> >
> > --
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