Club-Winged Manakin
By clapping his wings together at a rate of 107 beats/second (visible only in slow-motion video), club-winged manakin creates the loud, clear musical note G in much the same way a violin bow rubs against a string.
It is the only species that uses its feathers to generate a tick, tick, ting in the hope of making a female swoon.
Know more:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/05/manakins/koeppel-text
Video:
Courtesy of The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York
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Males do seem more impressive than females in the bird world. I saw the lat part of Attenborough's Ark yesterday which included the Marvellous Spatuletail hummingbird and the display he did, which takes a lot of energy (he didn't succeed in the end)
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ReplyDeleteAin't nothin' but a G thing baby... Lolz
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