🔊 Beak performance review

October 6, 2026

Your neighbor’s leaf blower finally has competition, and it has feathers.

Researchers measured calls from 123 bird species and found the bare-throated bellbird blasting 122.4 decibels from about 3 feet away, basically jackhammer territory. One individual call briefly peaked near 131 decibels, almost “jet engine takeoff” loud.

Louder birds tend to have bigger bodies and wider beak openings, so this thing is essentially a flying megaphone with anger issues.

Watch it yap here. Bird Twitter is going to be unbearable.