AMAZONAS, Peru — Scientists have found the world's loudest bird, and its screech is enough to damage the hearing of the female mate he's trying to seduce. The white bellbird, native to the Amazonian ...

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 ...

Many bird species are the expert wooers of the animal kingdom, courting mates with melodic love songs and grand displays of affection. The bellbird isn’t one of them. It prefers to blare its ...

Some birds make beautiful chirps and tweets. Some sing sweetly. Some sound like they’re laughing, and some are talented enough that they can mimic other birds and even human speech. But the white ...

This candidate for the loudest bird in the world screams from the treetops with chainsaw volume, directly into the ear of a potential mate. Meet the white bellbird, a member of the cotinga family that ...

The language of love is nothing if not subtle and complex. To woo potential mates, some species will whisper sweet nothings, sing a soft serenade, or even grunt a gentle come-hither call. But male ...

The world's loudest bird has been confirmed to be the male white bellbird—not the screaming piha as previously thought. Although the male white bellbird usually sings at around 116 decibels (dB), when ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Just in case you haven’t met, please let me introduce one of my favorite creatures: Procnias tricarunculata, aka the Three-Wattled Bellbird (from here on to be called simply “bellbird,” although there ...

You walk alone through a foggy forest with nothing but your day bag and binoculars. Birds and insects call quietly as they fly above and creep below. Suddenly, you hear a piercing, metallic alarm like ...