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Who’s the loudest of them all? The bare-throated bellbird vies for the prize

Published: 09/30/2026, 12:00 AM

By some measures, the bare-throated bellbird, which lives in the Atlantic Forest of northeastern South America, is even louder than its cousin the white bellbird. Credit: Nick Gordon/Nature Picture Library Some birds are really quite loud. To find out exactly how loud, João Menezes and Jefferey Podos at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, recorded the songs and calls of 123 bird species in Massachusetts and the Brazilian states of São Paulo, Mato Grosso do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Roraima and Amazonas between December 2018 and January 20251. Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout Menezes, J. C. T. & Podos, J. Evolution https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpag153 (2026). Article PubMed Google Scholar Bumblebees don’t mind a little plastic in their honeypots Neuronal detection of social actions directs collective escape behaviour Evolution of terrestrial anatomy revealed by a derived stem tetrapod