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Male white bellbird

World's loudest male bird bellows at females sitting right next to it

21 October 2019

The loudest song of the white bellbird hits an average of 116 decibels, putting it on a par with a pile-driver and beating all previously documented birds
Nightjars time their epic migration flights using a lunar calendar

Nightjars time their epic migration flights using a lunar calendar

15 October 2019

Nightjars are the first animal found to time migration by the moon, using its phases to know when to take flight on the journey from northern Europe to sub-Saharan Africa

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