Brazil's white bellbird has its own special trick: When it gets close to an interested female, it takes a deep breath, pivots toward her, then screams in her face.

Make some noise for the white bellbirds of the Brazilian Amazon, now the bird species with the loudest known mating call. The birds (Procnias albus) reach about 125 decibels on average at the ...

The white bellbird woos its mate with an ear-splitting, two-toned clang. Reporter Daniel Grossman ( @grossmanmedia ) visited with one of the paper's authors in the Brazilian Amazon.

The white bellbird — one of four bellbird species in South and Central America — is a favorite among birders in Brazil. It has a “strange, metallic, kind of alien call,” said Caio Brito ...

A male white bellbird with its bill open, just before singing. Its black and white wattle—a fleshy growth—hangs loosely over its beak. Image Credit: Anselmo d’Affonseca ...

The Amazon rainforest is a deafeningly noisy place, a constant cacophony of jungle animals trying to make themselves heard. Amid the din, the male white bellbird has evolved a winning strategy ...