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Yeah 90 percent plus of Americans do not know this and the other ten ish percent just think it’s funny.

The fact is bald eagles are basically just giant fancy seagulls This is typical bald eagle behavior

we need to get hollywood to start using the wilhelm scream for the bald eagle lol

Probably three nests with chicks within city limits, right now. And, in winter, our majestic dump eagles!

When i arrived in Kodiak Island l, AK at age 17, I was STUNNED to hear the eagle's wimpy little call. Then I was equally stunned that, like traffic lights, they were MUCH larger than expected

Kookaburra sounds for monkeys

Yes. Many eagles where I live. They love drama/are very loud about their drama. They never sound intimidating, which is why the hawk sound substitution, I guess?

It’s standard in America […] to reject the authentic […]

I think those were Red-Tailed Hawks, still a New World bird.

A time honored tradition! 🫡🦅 www.youtube.com/shorts/HV0af...

that's the central plot point to the movie "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage"

I get it. When I watch an old Tarzan movie and I can hear a kookaburra in the African jungle it drives me nuts.

I’m your dad, in my circles. I can’t NOT notice, it’s glaring! 😬

I hate when they get the plant sounds wrong.

I was always bothered by the trees in To Kill A Mockingbird, which looked very much like those of southern CA.

Kookaburra calls in Amazon jungle scenes made my dad apoplectic.

"If Bird Sounds in Movies Were Accurate 🍿" by Badgerland Birding is a great 36 seconds with several examples. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7aI...

I’m not disagreeing! I just have to spend a lot of time walking casually like “we’re cool, right?” because they like to cluster around my T stop

gorillas in the mist

They sound like someone laughing into a flute. The starlings in my old neighborhood learned to mimic it to fuck with the crows.

We have a large lonely male red-tailed hawk in the backyard who has been screaming constantly for weeks. We discovered the pair of hawks just to the south are lesbians and the lone female to the north wants nothing to do Mr. Screamy. I feel so bad for him.

They love DRAMA. All day, every day. I really enjoy watching ravens teasing them. Older eagles learn to ignore them, but youngers ones just LOSE it and it is hilarious.

Make Tobias our national symbol!

the national bird *sound*

I know! I was so shocked when I heard an actual eagle.

Red-tailed hawks are the Marni Nixons of the bird world.

I wish i had a robust commie scream.- me, a communist without a robust commie scream. But yeah, america is basically bread and circuses.

I assume you're saying that A. to be funny and B. Because of the color red?

They are.

Blue jays are such little shits (complimentary)

Well, now I have to grudgingly give even more respect to the “Peacemaker” series, because Eagly sounds exactly like a bald eagle. 😂

A lot of bald eagles live in my area and I like their normal voices so much better. They’re so endearing and friendly. Just some birbs chilling and fishing.

The only North American bird that sounds more like a squeaky toy than the bald eagle is the American Widgeon.

That’s my favorite Pterodactyl noise.

The sound designer's job is to provide the sound you expect to hear so you stay immersed in the story, rather than recreate reality and pull you out of the moment.

to be fair, that "Tseeeeer!" is majestic as fuck, and it's not the eagle's fault it can't measure up /lh

Extra bonus: I have seen a non-ironic motivational poster-couldn'tfind it just now-about how leaders are alone like bald eagles.

They also are fearsome harrassors of other wildlife. Big bullying antics to steal some other animals clam or treat at the low tide feeding frenzy.

My favorite similar fact is that only the Pacific Tree Frog goes "ribbit" and because it's native to southern California it made it into early Hollywood sound libraries The red-tailed hawk screech heard from a distance is so lonesome, terrifying and dramatic its ubiquity is unsurprising

Pretty neat, now I think I’d recognize both.

Seagull software on eagle hardware.

Red-tailed hawks do this after being specifically told to not tread on rattlesnakes… the most unpatriotic bird ever.

Guaranteed

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uc7...

I told my dad about that and he pulled up both on his Merlin app and had a good laugh

I love hawk