club-winged manakin© "club-winged manakin" by Gary T. Leavens is licensed under BY-SA 4.0. Birds make beautiful chirping songs, but have you ever seen them make music with their wings? That is one of ...
Deep within South America's cloud forests lives the club-winged manakin, a bird unlike any other. Instead of singing, the male manakin creates a musical tone with its wings, rubbing specialized ...
Imagine a bird so unique, it doesn’t sing with its beak, it plays a song with its wings. No, this isn’t a fantasy novel or a Disney script. Meet the club-winged manakin, a real bird from the cloud ...
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Listen To This Amazing Bird "Sing" With Its Wings!
Song birds are a favorite of many people, even if they aren’t “birdwatchers.” Waking up with the sound of happy birds welcoming a sunny day is an instant dopamine fix. In the cloud forests of the West ...
This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. To see a manakin in action is to encounter a spectacular song and dance act in the middle of a tropical forest. About half of ...
It turns out that the late Michael Jackson wasn't the only one who can moonwalk: Photographer Tim Laman captured a manakin (it's a tropical bird, not a life-size doll) busting a remarkably similar ...
White-collared manakin, Manacus candei, photographed in La Selva Biological Station, Organisation for Tropical Biology, Heredia province, Costa Rica (Central America). Image: Nick Athanas/Tropical ...
The only bird that plays music with its wings: Meet the club-winged manakin Nature does not fall short when it comes to blessing the human eyes and ears with surprising marvels! One among these ...
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