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This tiny bird makes music with its wings – Meet the Manakin

Imagine a bird so unique, it doesn’t sing with its beak, it plays a song with its wings. No, this isn’t a fantasy novel or a Disney script. Meet the club-winged manakin, a real bird from the cloud ...
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UC Riverside just recorded the strange wing sounds hummingbirds make mid-flight and during courtship — acoustic signatures now tied to brain circuits no one had mapped

When a male Anna’s hummingbird pulls out of a courtship dive at roughly 60 miles per hour, the air ripping through his outer tail feathers produces a loud, sharp chirp. It is not a vocalization. No ...