Three-wattled Bellbird (108kB). This record is on Doug Van Gausig's The Sights and Sounds of Costa Rica. ``The combination of squeaky hinge and that BONG! It's an unmistakable sound you'll never forget!''
The
Laughing Kookaburra
Dacelo novaeguineae (489kB) epitomizes something about
Australia. This record is on the page
Common Birds
of the Australian National Botanic Gardens,
maintained by the ANBG. "The 'laugh' of the Kookaburra is one of the most
enduring sounds of the Australian bush."
Another sample (323kB)
from the
Sound of the Week maintained by the Library of Natural
Sounds at Cornell.
Montezuma Oropendola (MP3 file) Psarocolius montezuma. This record (which also includes the Oropendola's "firecracker calls") is on Daniel Mennill's site Bird Songs of the Yucatan Peninsula. ``The strange and remarkable song of the Montezuma Oropendola is an ascending series of overlapping bubbly syllables which crescendo to a high peak.''
Albert's Lyrebird (MP3 file; Queensland, Australia). This recording is on Martyn Stewart's site Naturesound.Org