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These guys usually bail real quick, so it was nice to finally get some half-decent photos!
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American Kestrel. (press play to hear it’s call) (via raptor_rehab_of_kentucky)
all predatory birds are squeaky toys
The bigger ones have a deeper call, but American Kestrels are itty bitty, and first cousins to squeaky toys, yes.
ordinaryredtail
Yeah no red tails are fully capable of sounding like squeaky toys, and eagles have pitiful squeaky calls. The bigger ones are not exempt from squeaky toy classification.
I will consider myself enlightened!
There’s nothing quite like watching a big badass looking eagle go “meep”.
The exact opposite feeling of that is seeing a barn owl, looking at its soft looking pretty fluffy face, thinking it emits pleasant hoots like other owls, and then “SCREEEEEE” - the worst freakiest sound you could ever hear in the woods at night comes out.
And so I learned why they’re called “chouette effraie” in French.
Yep! When I said all, I meant all. Some of them can manage a dignified noise now and then–see redtails, which make the noise that’s almost always dubbed over eagles as an “eagle call,” because actual eagle calls are hilarious–but they all do make at least some chirpy squeaky noises.
Except barn owls. They make a sound that I cannot describe. It’s because their diet is 80% souls.
Can someone please reblog this with links to the other birds’ calls? Please?
Sure, can do!
Bald eagles make a noise like dodgeball being played on a very squeaky gym floor.
This red-tailed hawk makes some laser gun noises, and then the screech usually dubbed over eagles.
And here’s a barn owl, making the hellscreeches it loves. (Fair warning: this is loud, and the bird sounds reallllly angry. She’s being relocated to a safer location after choosing an unsafe nesting site. She’s fine. Just real mad.)
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Ivy, American Kestrel