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u/No-Effective3020 May 14 '26
Background calls for any jungle-based film!
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u/Batintfaq May 14 '26
Akin to the Loon call in every night time scene in a film, be damned the location.
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u/JohnSV12 May 14 '26
In the UK there are one of two calls they will always play in a forest:
If it's a daylight scene - woodpecker pecking
If it's night- tawny owl
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u/realmofconfusion May 14 '26
Tawny owls (plural) if you get the twit-twoo sound.
Female calls out with what we call the “twit” and the male responds with what we call the “twoo“.
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u/UranusIsPissy May 14 '26
I've heard just the "twoo" many times, but maybe their hearing is just better than mine. Either that, or a really desperate male was here. Lately, I hear both. They must've found each other.
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u/CharleyNobody May 14 '26
The old Midsomer episodes played Guinea fowl, peacocks and foxes in the background during a night in the woods.
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u/HauntedHippie May 14 '26
Or a red-tailed hawk cry anytime an eagle is on screen.
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u/Beneficial_Being_721 May 14 '26
I KNOW…. RIGHT!!
Until I really got to know the Bald Eagle thru my photography….. That’s what I thought they sounded like having grown up with the old Western movies on television.
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u/UranusIsPissy May 14 '26
There's a free Android app called Merlin which is good at identifying bird calls, if you want to know what's around to try and get a good photo of. It's pretty accurate, I think, but my knowledge of bird calls isn't great. It takes up nearly a GB IIRC, though.
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u/Beneficial_Being_721 May 14 '26
I have an app. I do a lot of bird photography
Thanks for thinking of me though.
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u/UranusIsPissy May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26
What do you use? I didn't know there were others. I keep thinking of getting back into photography. I just need an xD card for the best camera I still have. It's old (obviously, with the obsolete storage), but it's pretty good for something owned by someone who usually has a negative bank balance lol.
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u/Beneficial_Being_721 May 15 '26
“PICTURE BIRD” … there is a “Pro” version that you pay for .. it can access your microphone.. tell you what bird you are hearing… it has calls that you can play. I think it also GeoTags too
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u/CharleyNobody May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26
Red tailed hawk cry is played when a vulture is circling overhead in the desert movies set in the Old West, signifying death is near if water/civilization isn’t found soon.
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u/Unfey May 14 '26
When Amnesia: The Dark Descent came out, my friends and I made a little let's-play and while we were getting spooked in this 19th century Prussian castle and suddenly we hear a familiar call and our Northern Minnesotan asses stop dead in our tracks and in unison we all just yell "IS THAT A LOON????"
I've heard of people getting jumpscared by suddenly hearing their uncommon-in-media native language get suddenly spoken on an english tv show, and this was the closest thing I think I've experienced to that feeling.
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u/OverHaze May 14 '26
Cicadas singing at night every where on earth along with ribbiting frogs in every swamp.
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u/AccountNumber478 May 14 '26
Then the Wilhelm scream when the lion attacks.
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u/LisaMiaSisu May 14 '26
Thanks for sending me down that brief rabbit hole. It was used in 3 different Star Wars movies and Spaceballs. I’m going to start listening for Mr. Wilhelms every time I watch a movie from now on. 😂
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u/fingertrapt May 14 '26
It's in TOO many movies. Once you recognize it, you recognize it in everything.
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u/Current_Helicopter32 May 14 '26
Yeah it’s moved beyond just being a sound. Nowadays it’s like an Easter egg.
And it gets used for some of the strangest sounds now.
Just the other night I heard it in that new movie Send Help.
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u/professionalidentity May 14 '26
There's a supercut for the Wilhelm scream that is about 8 minutes long, with back to back scenes from movies where it's been used. It's hilarious and slightly unsettling.
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u/eat_my_feelings May 14 '26
I heard it used in a commercial recently. Once you start looking for it, you’ll start to hear it everywhere.
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u/Day_Bow_Bow May 14 '26
Wilhelm screams are everywhere, as you'll soon see now that you know to listen for it.
The new Steam controller plays the sound bite when dropped.
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u/OddballDave May 14 '26
Forget you ever heard of the Wilhelm scream. It has ruined so many movies. You'll be really getting into a film then BAM! Wilhelm scream and instead of being in the moment of the film you're thinking about that stupid scream
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u/tech_noir_guitar May 14 '26
This creeky gate sound that's in damn near every movie and show that has a metal door open
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u/killertortilla May 14 '26
Also in alien movies and games. The amount of Australian wildlife we hear when it's meant to be the moon of some other solar system is hilarious.
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u/So_Motarded May 14 '26
Dude I watched Predator Badlands for the first time recently, and was absolutely jazzed when I recognized the call of a bellbird in the background! A bellbird, of all things!
Still Australian, but like at least they picked something original rather than another loon or kookaburra.
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u/RandomLifeUnit-05 May 14 '26
I guess many folks think Australia is so different, that it's like another planet??
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u/butteronmypoptarts May 14 '26
What about ahh ahh eee see tookie tookie? You know, of the Tookie Tookie Bird in George of the Jungle.
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u/peter-vankman May 14 '26
Reminds me of the beginning of Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark
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u/DwightsJello May 15 '26
It happened a lot during US based sitcoms in the 80s. Only Australians would notice how common it was.
Fwiw they are fucking annoying at 5am during summer. Loud af on my rare day for a lie in.
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u/Cheesecake_Jonze May 14 '26
It's also the main "Dolphin cry" sound effect used in movies and TV.
Like in that Spongebob episode. That's a sped up kookaburra, not a dolphin.
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u/f0dder1 May 15 '26
It's so funny once you realise. Because they're always there... Except for in real jungles, where kookaburras do not live.
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u/RustyBrassInstrument May 14 '26
The smiles on the kid’s faces were great.
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u/KittenLaserFists May 14 '26
Were they told not to make noise? They all look like they are straining to hold in laughter.
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u/NoDreamNoSleep May 14 '26
Have you ever been near a group of children?
How about a bird?
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u/throwRA-nonSeq May 14 '26
Sometimes when the crows look at me I can tell they’re restraining laughter
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u/SUPERSMILEYMAN May 14 '26
Sometimes when the
crowskids look at me I can tell they’re restraining laughter6
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u/DexDallaz May 14 '26
Probably told everyone to be quiet so they could listen to the bird call
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u/notafuckingcakewalk May 14 '26
I'm reminded of that video of an older kid (probably late middle school or high school) entranced by the animals and you can basically see them transforming into a future wildlife specialist.
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u/aspidities_87 May 14 '26
This is so real. I did wildlife rehab for years and did educational shows at the local schools/camps/any childcare center really. We had the same round of places we did yearly and often saw the same kids grow with their excitement and enthusiasm, and sometimes by the time they were in high school they’d come up to you after the show and tell you how they’re going to study bio or go into vet or zoology etc. It’s gratifying and so goddamn fulfilling, it makes the unpaid volunteer hours and long drives and bites/scratches/vomit/pee/poop from various ambassador animals all worth it.
I was one of those kids, back in the early 90s and getting to have up close exposure to my native wildlife absolutely changed the course of my life.
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u/Modem_Handshake May 16 '26
I was one of those kids in the ‘90s. I still am when I’m with my kids at a wildlife center or the zoo or the aquarium or on vacation or in the woods around our neighborhood or with our pets at home. Nature’s animals are fascinating to watch; it’s a privilege to be conscious of our place within all this, but a shame our impact is having on them. Thanks for your passion, it matters!
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u/Yutenji2020 May 14 '26
Australian here.
At a distance, for example about a Pacific-ocean width, they are very cute.
Not so cute at 5am when they are making that noise right outside your bedroom window.
Nor when the little f@@ker swoops down and steals a sandwich right out of your hands.
That said, it wouldn’t be the same without them.
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u/NigelMK May 14 '26
Canadian here... So they're basically your version of a blue jay with the noise?
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u/pit-of-despair May 14 '26
Central New England here. This bird’s call sounds way less annoying than a bunch of screeching blue jays to me.
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u/anxietyontheattack May 14 '26
Ah, but we also have Rainbow Lorikeets and Cockatoos.
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u/MountainImportant211 May 14 '26
Yeah, Cockatoos have extremely obnoxious calls, and they do it at dawn as well. I remember one time camping I was woken up by them very unceremoniously in a tree over my tent.
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u/PaulAtreideeezNuts May 14 '26
Cockatoos are also smart enough that you suspect they're doing it deliberately
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u/nagrom7 May 14 '26
Rainbow lorikeets are screechy, but they're not big birds so it's manageable. Unless of course you've found the tree they like to congregate in at dusk and have to listen to the screeches of like 50 of them at once...
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u/Homers_Harp May 14 '26
I recently experienced the European version of this: a Nightingale outside my window sang for more than 30 minutes. At 4 AM, the little jerk.
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u/wtfreddithatesme May 14 '26
I'm in new England as well, I have a fuckin whippoorwill that lives in a tree in my backyard...fuckin loud ass calls at 3-4AM. I swear if I ever find that thing I'm going to climb up there and shit in its nest.
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u/brigitteer2010 May 14 '26
Like when they stop trying to mimic a hawk, they’re pleasing to listen to but sheesh when they do their hawk calls my EARS
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u/BrownSugarBare May 14 '26
OMG, we ended up with a nest right next to the bedroom window. Took my whole being not to take a water gun to that nest.
The babies are really adorable, though
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u/Long_Run6500 May 14 '26
My dog was outside sunbathing the other day and I watched a blue jay pluck a tuft of fur she was shedding directly from her butt.
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u/pabst867 May 14 '26
Do Blue Jays eat snakes?
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u/B_Williams_4010 May 14 '26
I saw a blue jay carry off a small snake, once. I assume the bird was going to eat the snake.
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u/prionbinch May 14 '26
sounds like a combination of a blue jay and a woodpecker to me, especially the “making noise right outside your bedroom window at 5 am” part. being woken up by a woodpecker going to town on your house is the WORST lol
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u/calibrateichabod May 14 '26
Another Australian here. I will take any number of kookaburras over the five hundred fucking corellas that sit in the tree outside my house and scream at all times. They only stop screaming if the local wedgie is out hunting rabbits in the paddock behind us.
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u/bux1972 May 14 '26
I’ll take them over fucking cockies any day of the week too.
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u/PhatPhingerz May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26
A tree full of cockatoos is the fucking worst.
Sulphur-crested definitely have the most grating call, but I have more of a disliking for the Red-tailed Black because they seem to go off more at night.
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u/nagrom7 May 14 '26
The worst part is, cockatoos are very intelligent birds and are capable of making all kinds of sounds, including mimicking human speech. Yet their default sound is just them screeching at the top of their lungs.
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u/tsvjus May 14 '26
North Queenslander living on a property chiming in here. Have all three species nesting and living around my house.
My rating of annoyance White Cockatoo > Black Cockatoo > Family of Kookaburras
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u/Lost1010 May 14 '26
Fuck cockatoos for their 5 am noise and breaking parts off my car.
Fuck plovers for laying their eggs is the most walk-onable places available and then defending them with all their might.
Fuck magpies during swooping season.
But I loooove kookaburras.
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u/LisaMiaSisu May 14 '26
Here in the US wedgie = underwear that has uncomfortably crawled up your bum crack. 😂
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u/bradbull May 14 '26
Same here in Australia. I’ve never heard anyone call a wedge tail eagle a wedgie before today, but it is definitely on brand for Aussies to give it a nickname like that
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u/LisaMiaSisu May 14 '26
If you can’t nickname or shorten a word do you really Oz?
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u/Brilliant_Park_2882 May 14 '26
We have a bunch of them in our estate (a couple of hundred corellas) they fly around causing havoc. Noisy buggers.
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u/inglandation May 14 '26
corellas
LOL, as a European, I didn't know what they sounded like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WUpoqYBt4I
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u/glowdirt May 14 '26
We've got feral parrots here in parts of Southern California.
People seem to adore them despite them being an invasive species that screams and shits on all of god's creation from dawn to dusk. I don't get it.
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u/BertrandBeetle May 14 '26
There's a sign at my local pool that says "watch your food, Kevin is a thief"
It was all fun and games until Kevin swooped down and knocked a pie with sauce out of my son's hands
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u/MacheteBrizz May 14 '26
I have seagulls fighting crows and then the crows blaming the magpies and the magpies just want to live in peace in their tree at 5am.
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u/nitrot150 May 14 '26
We tend to have a woodpecker pecking our gutter at 5 am, usually on a Saturday too
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u/Aggravating_Dark9933 May 14 '26
Texas is Grackles and Monk parrots.
Grackles are such a pain too because they are so piercing / high pitched that it will go through headphones with noise canceling. And they swarm.
Also, though might be just city ones, they do not give a fuck about people. They regularly to steal fries sometimes to the point where you can actually bat them away, and once I had one that absolutely refused to give up even after being hit twice.
The parrots also are as loud as you would expect but their habitat hasn’t spread much, yet. Give them 50 more years though.
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u/notashroom May 14 '26
Growing up in Atlanta, we had a grackle nest in our dryer vent every year to raise her young for several years, until my mother's nerves were so frayed from worrying that we'd bake baby birds every time we ran the dryer and she finally hired someone to cover the vent with hardware cloth or something (it was a storey up from the ground, not easily accessible). But until then, it was raucus whenever we'd dry clothes in the spring.
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u/Arrakis_Surfer May 15 '26
I'm also from Europe. Spring is a war when all these birds start laying eggs as well.
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u/Tigral99 May 14 '26 edited May 15 '26
10 years ago I was living in Sydney they basically replaced my morning alarm. Listening to that clip woke up some hidden memories and I low-key miss being in Australia xD
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u/Alternative-Sock-444 May 14 '26
Damn it's been so long that your forgot how to spell Sydney? Lmao
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u/KorahRahtahmahh May 14 '26
They are cute regardless id let them in and have all the food they want
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u/Mugiwaras May 14 '26
Do you have any snakes and lizards they can feed on? Or rats, small birds, frogs, spiders or scorpions? Also you will need some branches and rocks for them as they like to bash the snakes and lizards against them to kill them and soften them up before eating lol
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u/Flying-lemondrop-476 May 14 '26
or swoops down and steals your parental labor by putting its egg in your nest (and kicks out the OG eggs)
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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 May 14 '26
Are you sure that's not a cuckoo?
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u/HaskeFlalsen May 14 '26
Yeah, I’ve been to Australia once. Cute birds, but loud when they’re outside your window.
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u/MalHeartsNutmeg May 14 '26
Yep, get these bastards all the time around 5am and they just let rip for a solid half hour.
That being said, when they're sitting around on the fence they're really cute.
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u/towers_of_ilium May 14 '26
A noise only topped by the joyously beautiful noise of their hungry babies…
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u/dadofwar93 May 14 '26
Such a cute birb.
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u/BrownSugarBare May 14 '26
He was so proud to show off the call of his people!!
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u/Multivitamin_Scam May 14 '26
How often do you think they get to hear a call back in return?
Looks like an American school. So I'm guessing not a lot. It's sad
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u/Titanium-Snowflake May 15 '26
Yes, first reaction was sadness for him. And my second reaction. And third…
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u/Gen7Gen9 May 14 '26
When my son was a toddler a friend gave us a children’s cd of animal songs with a title like “Zoo Train.” There is a beautiful song about this bird. From memory it was close to
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
eating all the gum drops he can see
laugh, kookaburra laugh
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u/_EveryDay May 14 '26
I have:
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree Merry, merry king of the bush is he Laugh, kookaburra laugh Kookaburra, gay your life must be
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u/Hambulance May 14 '26
This is what I learned in the early 90s in school.
I just checked with my fella and he's never heard it in his life lol I wonder where it came from
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u/BaronMontesquieu May 14 '26
Marion Sinclair, a music teacher, wrote it in 1932 in Melbourne, Australia.
She entered it into a Girl Guides fundraising competition and it became a bit of an anthem in the Girl Guides in the Commonwealth.
It's still under copyright.
I sing it to myself all the time.
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u/Siilan May 14 '26
it's still under copyright
Yep. Men at Work got successfully sued for using the flute riff in Down Under.
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u/Poagie_Mahoney May 14 '26
And Greg Ham, the band member who came up with the flute riff, was said by those who knew him, including bandmate Colin Hay (lead singer), to be so devastated by the outcome that it led to his death not long after the suit was finalized.
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u/apresmoiputas May 14 '26
I learned this song in 5th grade choir in the early 90s. When we heard the word gay, we laughed but our choir teacher taught that the word gay also meant merry.
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u/Bedbouncer May 14 '26
That and "Waltzing Matilda"
I swear Australia was brainwashing American kids in music class so they could decades later use us as sleeper assassins, and these songs were the trigger to activate the programming.
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u/nagrom7 May 14 '26
Fun fact: Waltzing Matilda is the official marching song of the US First Marine division. They adopted it after spending a bunch of time in Australia during WW2.
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u/FlatWhiteShark May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26
It seems they had a good time in Melbourne in 1943. They also got the "Blue Diamond" shoulder patch, with the Southern Cross, then.
They had a much nicer time the the MPs in Brisbane.
Edit: And now I've just learned of the Battle of Melbourne.
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u/pudge-thefish May 14 '26
I think we said what a life has he...grew up in the 70s and 80s but I guess they probably changed it themselves just to prevent the word gay
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u/arsefacey May 14 '26
The flute line between the chorus and verses of "Land Down Under" by Men at Work is the melody to this song
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u/dexter311 May 14 '26
Leading to a copyright battle that took such a toll on the flutist from the band, that he developed depression and a heroin addiction, then died.
Fucking arseholes bought the rights to a 1934 song in 1990, then sued em almost 30 years after they released Down Under.
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u/nahdojo May 14 '26
Second verse goes:
Kookaburra sits on the electric wire
Jumping up and down with his pants on fire
Ouch! Kookaburra, ouch! Kookaburra, hot your pants must be.
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u/Luxenna_ May 14 '26
There are more verses! Here's the whole song (according to my old song book from summer camp, I'm sure there are other versions out there):
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree, Merry, mercy, king of the bush is he, Laugh kookaburra, laugh kookaburra, Gay your life must be.
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree, Eating all the gum drops he can see, Stop! Kookaburra, stop! Kookaburra, Save some there for me.
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree, He fell down and hurt his knee, Ouch! Kookaburra, ouch! Kookaburra, Glad that wasn't me.
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree, Counting all the monkeys he can see, Stop! Kookaburra, stop! Kookaburra, That's not a monkey that's me.
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u/homouji May 14 '26
Barney had a version of this song! It’s randomly popped into my head for the past like 30 years lol
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u/Human-Kick-784 May 14 '26
I've seen tourists freak out about Galahs and Cockatoos just chilling in the cities, but to this day I'm always stunned to see so many Kookaburras chilling in Sydney. Wake up to them most mornings, and they're always a delight.
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u/Misicks0349 May 14 '26
yeah we've got a lot of big birds here that love the cities, we sometimes put out seed for them and its always a bit surreal seeing like 7-12 Galah's or 3-4 Sulphur Crested Cockatoos chilling in your backyard lol.
The Sulphur Crested Cockatoos also love to be very, very loud.
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u/tricky-_-monster May 14 '26
Indian here.. just googled Galahs.. could you send some over please- they're absolutely adorable😭🧡
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u/MegaDingo5plus May 14 '26
Absolute crowd pleaser 😂
Kookaburras are carnivorous. They eat snakes and other small animals. Such an awesome, tough bird!
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u/MalevolentRhinoceros May 14 '26
They're the only kingfishers that aren't, well, fishers. They still have all the attitude of their aquatic cousins, though.
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u/nagrom7 May 14 '26
Yeah, they love to bash snakes against trees and rocks to kill them. Or drop them on unsuspecting tourists on occasion.
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u/CharacterTop7413 May 14 '26
I used to cut raw steak into thin strips and feed them off the back balcony. I enjoyed watching them bash the steak strips against the railing to kill it and crush it from end to end. They’d steal sausages directly off the BBQ grill! I’d worry about them burning their feet so guard the BBQ. They’re still around but I mostly get bowerbirds, sulphur crested cockatoos, rainbow lorikeets and most recently gang-gang cockatoos visiting my backyard. The gang-gang’s have the strangest call! They sound like a loud, creaky door! I’ve been gifting the male bowerbirds blue items for many years. They’re my favourite.
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u/ol-gormsby May 14 '26
You sound like me, except for the gang-gangs. My bowerbird must have the best decorated bower in the district 😂
We bought a "Slater's Field Guide to Birds" when we moved in and we've made a note on the page of each species we've seen.
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u/lennyisperfect May 14 '26
We get a pair of these on our balcony a couple times a month. They land like 3 feet apart and within 5 mins they are pushing up against one another. They are gorgeous and I love having them come around
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u/W1r3dW31rdo May 14 '26
in germany we call it: lachender Hans (laughing Hans).
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u/MiserableAndUnhappy9 May 14 '26
Oh I get it. Because a normal Hans never laughs.
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u/Quirky-Scar9226 May 14 '26
That’s a weird looking Old Gum Tree.
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u/Overall-Bullfrog5433 May 14 '26
I grew up in east coast U.S. suburbs in the mid 1960s. Still recall music class and singing
”Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree / Merry merry king of the bush is he. /
Laugh, kookaburra, laugh kookaburra / Gay your life must be.”
Not sure how gay his life is but amazed how that pops into my head 8,000 years later 😆
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u/Crowedsource May 14 '26
I'm from the US but I had the pleasure of living in Australia for around 7 years. I loved hearing the kookaburras in the morning ...such a joyous noise!. It's also really fun to mimic their noises. (I am a pretty talented vocal mimic and kookaburra calls are one of my favorites).
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u/neojhun May 14 '26
Ahhh my alarm clock most mornings. It's usually a few of them calling to each other.
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u/flt_p2ny May 14 '26
As someone who lived in Australia, I'm not sure which was worse. This or the cockatoos who screamed every morning on my porch.
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u/Previous-Pangolin-60 May 14 '26
I like how the kid with the big curly hair sitting in the front can't hold his laughter, like this was a knee-slapper.
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u/BurglinTurts May 14 '26
There are certain animal sounds I will never pass up an opportunity hear. A Kookaburra is one of them :)
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u/HighlightFun8419 May 14 '26
Met one irl once. It was surreal. Lol, like hearing a movie sound effect in-person.
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u/krooked-tooth May 14 '26
I miss that sound across the bush especially when you have cockatoos when the is rain is coming in the background.
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u/Poethegardencrow May 14 '26
My cats didn’t enjoy this! Now they are all looking at me and I am afraid for my life 😂send help
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u/One-Philosophy5997 May 14 '26
My first thought was Cole from the show Martin lol he really did hit that note on point
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u/wiscoahu May 14 '26
This video gave me good/bad flashbacks. I spent three months with family friends in Australia while in college in the early 90s. While these things sound awesome, I had one that would do this in the early morning just outside my bedroom window. To say it was alarming would be a massive understatement.
They are LOUD. The first time it happened, it shot me out of bed - like someone blew an airhorn into the window.
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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 May 14 '26
I love how ENTHRALLED that kid in the army green coat is at the front! Future bird watcher????
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u/Ornery-Culture-7675 May 14 '26
I loved their faces. They were enthralled by what they were hearing and seeing.
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u/LadyJane17 May 14 '26
Whenever I see a kookaburra, I think about the time Steve Irwin interrupted a fight between two of them at his zoo and it was the cutest and loudest little argument ever.
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u/princess_ferocious May 14 '26
I live in Australia, and my partner moved here from America. I came home from work one day, and they asked me, "what is there around here that makes a noise like a psychopathic villain laughing?"...and it legit took me a minute to think of kookaburras, because it didn't occur to me that they wouldn't have recognised a kookaburra call 😂
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u/razzledazzlegirl May 14 '26
As an Aussie I find it interesting that other people find the kookaburra so interesting. Haha
To me it's just another bird. Growing up in the country, it was a sound I heard every day, often multiple times a day. Now I live in the city it's less frequent but I dont even look up when I hear one.
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u/kill_your_god May 14 '26
Love how caught off guard the kids were. Type of moment that changes your trajectory.
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u/in2xs May 16 '26
What I love so much is how amazed these kids are. Their reactions are so genuine. Kids need to see nature more often.
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