The Most Haunting Birds Songs of the World
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- čas přidán 27. 06. 2024
- This is a collection of the world's most haunting bird calls. Bird calls are used for communication, some sound beautiful but some are scary. These are the scariest bird calls I could find.
If you can think of other haunting bird songs please comment below.
Start: (0:00)
Black-footed Albatross: (0:11)
Barred Owl: (1:02)
Croy's Shearwater: (1:30)
Laughing kookaburra: (2:00)
Southern Ground Hornbill: (2:30)
Grey Go-Away-Bird: (3:00)
Great Snipe: (3:30)
Ostrich: (4:00)
Great Potoo: (4:25)
Channel-billed Cuckoo: (4:55)
Common Eider: (5:13)
Common Buttonquail: (5:42)
Western Capercaillie: (6:12)
End: (7:00)
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Barred Owl
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Corey’s Shearwater
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Laughing Kookaburra
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Southern Ground Hornbill
www.xeno-canto.org/279886 by Peter Boesman
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Grey Go-away Bird
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Great Snipe
www.xeno-canto.org/263888 by Terje Kolaas
Ostrich
www.xeno-canto.org/208209 by Jeremy Hegge
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Great Potoo
www.xeno-canto.org/349444 by Bruce Lagerquist
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Channel Billed Cuckoo
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Common Eider
www.xeno-canto.org/373764
"Gweeeee.... Gewweeeeeeeee... Gueweeeehhh." Honestly the Go-away is adorable.
I remember that one scene in an african documentary in which a go away bird stalks a hunter to signal the preys to run away when he's about to kill them
I agree
In Afrikaans it’s called the ‘Kwê’ bird
LMFAOOO ITS SO CUTEEE
Kinda simultaneously reminds me of the Angry Birds game and Yanny/Laurel challenge
In my opinion, the most haunting bird call is that of the last Kauaʻi ʻōʻō male. Not because it sounds scary, but just the absolutely depressing context.
For those unaware, the recording of his call was just him singing with breaks for a female to join in. He didn't know that he was the last surviving of his species and I think that's truly haunting. He died in 1987.
I came from a video of his last call
The concept of us driving entire species extinct is so horrific that for a long time even scientists refused to believe it was possible.
Such a beautiful call tho
@@yourghostlovelletter hauntingly beautiful
Imagine.
You have zero idea your species is gone and you are the only one left.
You call out hoping someone will answer.
You keep calling out over and over again but no one is there.
You do not know if your kind is gone only from this place.
So if you could you try to move around and keep calling.
Even when you die you will may not know that you are the last humans probably still believing that people in other countries must still exist atleast.
I like the Kookaburra. Imagine being in the middle of the night and it sounds like a bunch of goblins giggling at you. Funny.
thats what i wake up to every day lmao
would scare the hell out of me hearing them at night they only ever speak first thing as the sun rises!
@@lucienneireland3959 well, if you disturb them at night, maybe they’d fuck with you
Sounds so scary-
Not scary as an Australian, if you live where it’s native it’s just the usual.
as an Australian I can confirm that we wake up in the morning only to hear Kookaburra's laughter
That explains a lot😂😂jkjk
How beautiful
I would love to see these in the wilderness and outside of my home. They look cool and make cool sounds. One of the top 10 birbs for me.
I get cat birds. Fuck that. (Also a fellow Australian lmao)
Bro it is soo annoying
The go-away-bird was just cute lol
It's kind sounds like "whatt... Whatt..." As if it has beef and waiting for another bird to pop off
“Whaaatt” or “waaah”
Its call is hilarious.
Whoæ
Hey Marie do you draw ?
*the most hunting bird calls in the
world*
Cory's Shearwater: **beatboxing intensifies**
That’s just the boss music
@@brainsmooth1235 oh ok
Lol sounded kind of like a kazoo
That's my favourite bird sound ever.
ma favor8 brd
The barred owl has such a majestic call, I wish I could hear it everyday
Come where I live, Birmingham, Alabama. We have one in our alleyway. My Boston Terrier hates it. I have to refrain from imitating 😂
I live in the city. The only bird i hear is brought to you by the letter G
Not only to confirm, the call was used in feather family (in roblox) they added this sound to the sapeornis
@@FLAMIN.HOTCHEETOthey added the O’o 😢
I woke up once to a barred owl WHO WHO WHO WHOing outside my window, scared the shit out of me.
Idk if it was just the way it was recorded, but that Buttonquail (5:42) was terrifying.
Ik
It doesn’t sound that creepy to me
It was. 😐
I like the stark difference between the button quail and Japanese quails call. A Japanese quail sounds like a Pokémon.
EDIT: It is terrifying with reverb
video: is called "the most haunting bird songs of the world"
kookaburra: *proceeds to maniacal laughter*
Maniacal laugh.... Maniacal laugh...
Like that "baby laughs alot" toy
Grammar is dead. You killed it.
Jockey from Left 4 Dead 2
If the joker was a bird
*The most haunting bird calls in the world.*
Kookaburra: *AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHOOHOOOHOOHOHOHOHOOOOOOHHOHOAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAH*
I love kookaburras. Shame they inhabit the areas just outside of where I live
Imagine getting tortured and the torturist has 3 of those birds next to you
Ha ha ha ...
It sounds kinda like jigsaws laugh
Lol bruh!!
Okay but can we appreciate that they literally named a bird the “grey go-away bird” like I LOVE THAT.
This past summer, we had about two to three Barred Owls living in my backyard, and at night it sounded like a bunch of monkeys freaking out back there. A few interesting things I learned about Barred Owls are that they love making random sounds and will come to check you out and respond if you call to them and they are sometimes out during the day (my sister and I got to see one) which meant we got to witness how big it was-almost two feet tall with a four foot wingspan. Really cool birds.
That’s amazing, also local for me! We have this bog garden where at least 4 live and they get so territorial. They’re out in the day but you have to look. In the evening they’re very active and begin making harsh hisses and shrieks at each other. They put on quite the show for the crowd but began scaring the ducks and I thought there was going to be a war, especially with how they dive-bombed the ducks. When you heard the barred owl you know the gettings good and you’re out in nature!
Where is the Shoebill Stork? It would haunt war veterans.
I see what you mean. Sounds like a round of gunfire.
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The way they stare is something vicious & have a huge face lol
@@misst.e.a.187 Here is a better example
czcams.com/video/QFgYT3HfgP8/video.html
Lmao!!!!
and secretary calls. though they are a mostly silent bird the calls are kinda unnerving
5:43 this is the only one I actually found scary. Imagine hearing that at night in the darkness.
Holy sheeet it's so scary
Fucking creepy...
It's just sounds like a frog from a faraway distance
Yeah, no thank you LMAO
I found it quite relaxing
0:11 Weird mic noises
1:02 scary wolf howl
1:30 whining
2:00 laughing children
2:30 bad mic
3:00 crying baby
3:30 broken glass
4:00 distant lion roar
4:25 old person in pain
4:55 women screaming
5:13 impressed old ladies
5:42 air raid siren
6:12 metals sharpening
3:30, dropping pins, lol
The black-footed albatross’ call is similar to that of a velociraptor. Yes, that’s almost what raptors sounded like! In fact, the black-footed albatross’ call was used in a (very accurate) reconstruction of the vocalisations of a velociraptor. Mainly at 0:29 with the shrieking
In fact, a few of these calls were indeed used in the reconstruction of dinosaur vocalisations.
I love albatross calls, especially while kayaking and camping with friends that don't know what it is. It's so freaking bizarre!
Makes sense considering that birds are basically dinosaurs.
That's so cool! The raptoor family are my favorite dinosaurs next to the T-rex.
@@redguirusbirds are literally dinosaurs, not basically (sorry if that sounds mean)
@@TheSnomGuy I wouldn't say "literally", but they're definitely their ancestors.
Man, I've never really considered kookaburras to have a haunting call, I've grown up with these things laughing out in the distance and it's quite soothing.
Definitely, it’s very normal to hear one if you live in suburban/rural Australia. I think they sound cute!
I’m not from Australia. My local pet store had a kookaburra named Tarzan and he’d always laugh when he’d see me. He died a few years ago and I have to travel to see another kookaburra.
As an Australian, You should get used to it, It’s not even scary at all.
Literally how I feel with the Barred Owl. The only scary thing with them is when there are multiples and they’re territorial and start making this horrible hissing-shrieking sound and it makes you want to run for it… they don’t hurt people tho
It reminds me of summer evenings
If I was lost in a forest and heard the Great Potoo, I would wonder what the HELL is that sound?!
Informative💙👍❤️🐦🇳🇿
He’s laughing at you 😄
Potoos have a lot of variety between species. Some sound like humans screaming in the woods for example
To be fair, when he hears you, he'll think the same thing.
Unfortunately, it does sound a bit like some old and decrepit big cat relative, if this is any good indication. The other sound I hear is reassuringly similar to a bullfrog, however, so, if you get a diversity of calls there's that.
The great potoo is one of my favorite birds. People say it looks creepy but I find it really cute 🥺
I AGREE YOURE NOT ALONE
It's creepy and adorable at the same time
I was born and raised in the countryside in Italy, with boars, wolves and foxes. And I swear the most chilling, otherworldly, and puzzling sounds are always coming from the birds!
The common Loon should be on this list. It's the most hauntingly beautiful sound
Edit: Also the northern Bob White quail
That Common Buttonquail would keep me up at night!
Your so right.
It sounds like a wolf. Have a listen to the Kokako bird, it sounds amazing too.
Dude the common Loon is something I can never forget because of Stephen King's Bag of Bones.
@@davemidua6138 Not just "Bag of Bones" but also "Pet Cemetery" (book not movie)
6:14 This one sounds exactly like someone walking around flipping the top of a soda can with their finger. Alone in the dark woods and hearing THAT would scare the shit out of me
soda can bird. amazing
I've seen enough videos if capercaillie to know you should flee the noise anyway. They're apparently super territorial, and one literally ran near a mile down the road to attack a dude who was just standing there.
Can't remember if its just during breeding season or year round, but they're absolute bastards.
@@iamnotamouseok yeah they do attack you on sight during breeding season. Sometimes when they feel threatened too. But they're also endangered species so it is not as common as you may think.
*aggressively hits spacebar*
It definitely scares me when it speeds up in the middle of the clicking. :-)
The Kookaburra sounds like when you shake that Jibba Jabba/Jabber doll really fast.
“Haunting bird calls”
Kookaburra: *adorable giggling intensifies*
Grey go away bird: HOI!
Edit: holy shit the buttonquail’s call is terrifyingly
Yeah, when you're walking alone in the middle of the night there's nothing quite like a barred owl call to scare you shitless
That must be absolutely petrifying
Heard this bird fly over my house and land in our barn, it scared me so bad
Sure there is.
Ever heard the noises foxes make at 2 AM?
Its my favourite species of owl
Correct
6:13
It sounds like when you're clicking a pen in and out a bunch of times and then RUNS it over paper for some scribbles.
Yeah really! It boggles my mind how much bird sounds can sound like the sounds human technology makes. I was actually thinking of sounds a computer game might make as you click through prompts to assure you that you've clicked the onscreen buttons. It also reminds me of appliance repair sounds. If you gave these calls to animators, it's be interesting to see what they'd use them to represent in animation.
To me it sounds like a bird opening a can and then being delighted with itself once it gets the contents of the can
I came here to hear how they sound and now I'm more intrigued by the way they look. This is absolutely incredible.
6:31 that one discord friend without noise cancelation
man idk if this is haunting because the first one already got me wheezing
BRO same 😂😂😂
My god your pfp matches your comment
Your pfp makes me sad.
Did you start out koffing?
Missed opportunity to scare everyone with the signature demonic screech of the barn owl and other tyto species
Honestly thought the barn owl would be on here, along with the hissing of juvenile vultures.
I was wandering where that was
I came to comment the same.
Bro my grandad lives in the middle of nowhere and I work alone in his shop from like 9pm to 9am and one night I heard that screaching of a barn owl then it came to this thin aluminum door and done it then it left then a dog started trying to open the door I swear I was literally about to pass out
Barn Owl literally sounds like a woman screaming. Absolutely terrifying without context.
What about loons? They're hauntingly beautiful, and a wonderful addition to the Great Lakes
I think the barred owl calls are actually really majestic I love hearing them occasionally at night where I live.
Imagine living 10000 years ago and hearing a kookaburra or a hyena at night not knowing what they were. That would be scary af.
Or 10000 years after those go extinct but some jackass mockingbird descendent is mimicking them
some cultures have myths about laughing ghost. one example is kuntilanak in SE asia. some said it is actualy a cucko's calling.
@@aliceberethart I think most people today can't even tell what made the sound if they randomly hear it
Hyena & Kookaburra sound nothing alike so you could tell them apart if you had ever heard one before & moreover they don't live on the same continent.
Kookaburras are pretty visible (they're big, like giant kingfishers) and aren't shy. So their call would never be a mystery to anyone living alongside them.
I predict this is gonna pop up on everyone's reccomendations at some point.
You are truly a psychic
i just gave you 69 likes.
Hey there
I searched for this.
Your prediction has come true for this particular wanderer. Lol.
3:48 so when folks go on a snipe hunt....there really are snipes. LoL
But only in Africa, Europe, and Russia
But only in Africa Europe and asia
6:20 when I play with the pushable part of the jar lid
Exactly what I thought
The common buttonquail actually sounds unsettling.
I was surprised how what look like seabirds here have these really anxiety-producing frenzy sounds. I suppose seagulls are pretty bad as is, but it looks like they could be a good bit worse.
The sound is so deep that I sounded like it was outside my house
@@totallynotana right?!
Litteral alarm bells
5:44 Kinda sounds like blowing into a glass bottle?
5:22 gossiping women when someone shares a particularly spicy piece of gossip
I remember hearing the barred owl's calls in a beaver documentary. Beautiful things
I think the Go-away bird is my favorite! It really does sound like it's telling us to "go away" but its voice is so cute so i'd just wanna stay and listen 😊😊
This is missing the different Potoo bird sounds, and the Cassowary rumbling noise imo
Yeah was gonna say that. Potoos have a lot of variety
CASSOWARY GO EEE
@@mintkiity sound like a velociraptor in films
Emu as well blob blob
There's an urban legend that says that if you hear a potoo ( or ghost owl ) singing you or someone close to you will die
2:36 ayyyy, drop the base ALREADY!!!
You mean bass?
@@NurseOrysia1 lmao thank you sirr.
The Cory's Shearwater hits hard
drop them fish
5:56 as being indian, yesterday i saw that bird
when i was kid i used to wonder what is that sound in woods so this is that bird.
I love the way you made this video: labeling their names & sometimes showing the country of origin. Fascinating- some fodder for my parrot!
1:03 barred owls are the most amazing call out of them all, I love these owls so much
I was shocked to see them on here, never thought of them as anything but majestic. Yeah sometimes they get worked up and it sounds like monkeys but that’s kind of funny. They are humorous because they start out of nowhere and it’s literally like someone waking up from a nap and complaining and making a stink.
“These aren’t scary at a-“
*ostrich noise*
“…oh.”
Now look up what a T Rex actually sounded like
@@raphaeloking8647 that is exactly what I was thinking
I’m never going to Africa again QmQ
The southern ground hornbill is really scary to me, it sounds like muffled talking. Most of the others just sounded silly, but that was legit unsettling
(Also shout out to the buttonquail who sounds like a distant air-raid siren. I found that very funny that the tiny little quail sounds terrifying)
Ostrich
@@OntarioBirding7538 Ostrich
@@sharksuperiority9736 is scariest
@@OntarioBirding7538 Ostrich
@@sharksuperiority9736 is scariest
The ostrich is eerie but the buttonqual is terrifyingly haunting
I think ostrich is the most terrifying because it literally sounds like the Julia sound in the ocean
1:37 that bird has a future in the music industry
3:00 Bro that ain't haunting, that's funny as hell! They sound like a snobby bird. It's adorable and hilarious! The one before it was definitely haunting though. I'll give you credit for that.
Listen to the barred owl
Whye whye whye
I think it's because it vaguely sounds like a humans voice
Sounds like a cranky emo teenager.
hyueh
Thanks so much for including the locations!
The go-away-bird looks pretty cute to me😊
1:53 this just made me burst out laughing
LOL
I know, it sounds like a character out of a kid's TV show.
Its in rap battle
pingus voice actor
Owa owa
Most of these were everything but haunting 😂
Guess birds just can’t be scary
@@shadowbonbon3 The Great Potoo is kind of a creepy bird because you won't notice them at first. They camouflage very well in dead tree stumps.
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@@XenoGuru far but another thing that’s creepy is the look manly the head and neck
@@XenoGuru
Yup, it's a pretty cool bird. That video you linked is faked though, the sound was taken from another video- the original video was the bird just silently trying to scare off the humans by making biting motions
@@l.2620 True. Great Potoos don't sound like that. They indeed sound pretty scary. I often described it as a "zombie calling for its mom" 🤣
The go-away bird was so cute I could never be scared of it.
I became enamored with the Kakapo call. It’s resonance is so amazing. The adorable little dance and posturing is cute.
Cory’s Shearwater sounds like a fragrance
* cozy warm voice *
Cory's Shearwater
The New Fragrance
for Birds
"The most haunting bird calls in the world"
Go-away-bird: uwwaa! uwaa!
If you put some imagination into it, the Go-away bird actually says "Go away"
Lol the common Eider sounds like a grandma being delighted at something like “ohhh!”
4:43 "aaauuuuuugghhhh............WOOAAOH"
Sounds ljke me getting up in the morning tbh
1:52 can I get a owa owa
lmfao
My mom: "Sweetie every bird has a song."
Little me: "Every bird?"
My mom: "Every bird lol"
17 years later...0:51
Thank you for the time & effort for bringing together the various recordings of these bird calls.
This was bloody terrific and liked the video format too
4:49 “you’re wRoNG. WrOnNg”
I'm convinced that birds are just nature's tape recorders and have recorded random sounds that were assigned to each throughout history. Lol. I mean seriously. That last one sounded like a cork coming out of a bottle!
Imagine waking at night & the boss music coming from a Common Buttonquail starts playing.
That first Barred Owl call is absolutely breathtaking!... They are a local bird, where I live, and I hear them daily, but that call sounds very unique!... I find they can "hoot" and call louder than usual, but that particular call is new to me... It sounded like some bird of mythology 😊
Beautifully done! No annoying and pointless background music, no annoying voicever.
One bird that should be here is the Australian curlew, they only come out at night and just creeps you out if your alone
🇳🇿👍true in my street at night❤️💙
Omg yes, absolutely soul wrenching
Bush stone curlew are bloody scary if you don't know what they are. Especially the fact they call most at night!
Thank you! I think so too. Glad someone mentioned it but I do find them adorable.
i hate their calls at 3 am
1:46 crazy frog
The Grey Go-Away-Bird is the most aptly named creature on Earth, fascinating.
i think that cory's shearwater might've swallowed a kazoo
edit: 2:31 that one kid with the bad mic in zoom calls
The "go-away-bird" sounds like me any time earlier than 10:00 in the morning
Right? 😂
Thank you! That was wonderful
Imagine your running away from a killer and suddenly
Croy's Shearwater: *beatboxing intensifies*
Kookaburras: *laughing intensifies*
6:12 Sounds like a birb trying to open a pot and when it succeeds it lets out a chirp of happiness.
5:14 It sounds like a bunch of kids that saw something lol
Great snipe sounds cool.
As an Australian a kookaburras call is one of the highlights of our day when we hear it
There's a pair of kookaburras at a zoo near me, and they're one of the highlights of my visit. They love to pose for pictures and their call is infectious!
god i love birds
sounds of modern day dinos
I love the laughing kookaburra because I’m from Australia and it’s just so relaxing to me.
Grey go away bird IS ADORABLEEE.
Tbh none of these were haunting to me.
Birds calls are music, songs.
It’s beauty in every click, whistle and Gweeeee.
It’s mature at it’s work and every call is just something I’ll never forget, even when I leave this world.
The beauty of sound.
I definitely hear the channel billed cuckoo daily but I never knew the name of the bird making the calls! Very educational, thank you!
This bird sounds as tired as it looks 4:28
Some of these are just hilarious
Wow, thank you that was very interesting!!!
Loved it .
I love how the pic of the go-away bird looks like he's sick of the cameraman and wants them to get tf away
This makes all those ghosts make more sense.
I don't know why I'm here but this was amazing!
So kewl 👍👏👏 Imagine in the pitch dark in a forest and hearing some of these… you would think there are monsters and ghosts about even aliens
My parents retired to a home deep in the woods in northern Michigan. The call of the barred owl echoing though the silent woods at night was enough to curdle your blood.
I think I've found my spirit animal 3:05
So many of them sound so silly! I love em!
This is beautiful!
The sight of a Great Potoo sitting on a fence with haunt me for all time. Not to mention their distant call sounds like a high-pitched scream
Nobody:
Cory’s Shearwater and Laughing Kookaburra:
*Intense Laughter*
These are pretty adorable, love a kooky burra
The go away bird was adorable tbh.