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This seems as good a time/place as any to remind everyone that the sound an eagle makes isn't the screech Hollywood has made you believe it is (that's a red-tai
by rdiddly 6y ago
This seems as good a time/place as any to remind everyone that the sound an eagle makes isn't the screech Hollywood has made you believe it is (that's a red-tailed hawk). It's actually relatively non-macho (for a superpower's mascot anyway) and sounds like it's laughing.
The hawk says:
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red-tailed_Hawk/sounds https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red-tailed_Hawk/sounds
The eagle says:
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Bald_Eagle/sounds https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Bald_Eagle/sounds
- WalterBright 6y agoI wish hollywood would make a few more recordings. They always use exactly the same one, every time they have a long shot of a wilderness scene. Movies, TV shows, documentaries, everything. It's worse than the Wilhelm Scream.
- rdiddly 6y agoAbsolutely, I was already thinking Wilhelm Scream as I finally arrived at those words in your comment! Edit: What we need is a satirical movie full of in-jokes, like opening a wilderness long-shot with a Wilhelm Scream.
- stjohnswarts 6y agoAlso most sitcom clapping and laughter is from the 50s
- WalterBright 6y agoIn Married With Children, I hear the same woman laughing in about every episode!
- smazga 6y agoThere’s also a stock audio sound for police radio chatter that is the same as the one in SimCity 2000. Every time I hear that (which is too often) I can’t help but think “well, you cheaped out on sound design"
- titzer 6y agoI noticed that too! I thought I was going crazy until I started compiling a list of them... "We need a dispatchment 148...mumble mumble...ksshhh" [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dklA4-ACN4k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dklA4-ACN4k
- willcipriano 6y ago"7806 code 5, north and garbled street" I first heard that playing one of the first (top down) GTA games and hear it in half the police dramas I watch.
- seriousquestion 6y agoTIL! What else is manufactured like this? Anyone know if a big list of examples exists?
- oblio 6y agoThe whole thing is a lie. The bald eagle screech is not that of the bald eagle. Plenty of eagle species are bald yet the "bald" eagle isn't bald. If you think about it, it's a fantastic metaphor for the US :-p
- Isamu 6y agoMaybe unpopular, but I like the chuckling screech of the bald eagle. Also barn swallows, they kind of “talk” when they are relaxed.
- MarkSweep 6y agoI was going to reply that “it could be worse: Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be the national bird”. But some research says he did not say exactly that, rather he said “ the Turkey is in Comparison [to the bald eagle] a much more respectable Bird” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/american-myths-benjamin-franklins-turkey-and-the-presidential-seal-6623414/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/american-myths-b...
- lasc4r 6y agoEagles eat the dead cows on our farm. As I understand it from 1 minute of google searching Turkeys do not partake of dead flesh. Much more gentlemanly if you ask me.
- throwanem 6y agoGiven the option, I suppose I'd rather have my flesh eaten after I die than before. But I respect vultures, which subsist entirely on carrion and are highly specialized to do so. Bald eagles are just too lazy to hunt unless they're forced to.
- thaumasiotes 6y agoYou know, one major reason we raise cows is so we can eat their dead flesh.
- devb 6y agoA local radio station has "Liberty the Eagle" as its mascot. Not long ago it was updated to "Liberty, the Eagle with the voice of a red tail."
- skratlo 6y agoBald eagle is one of the smallest eagles, it's slightly bigger than a seagull when other eagles are considered.
- stevula 6y agoThis is part of a larger phenomenon sometimes referred to as The Coconut Effect. The name comes from the practice of using coconut shells to produce the sound of horses galloping, even when the sound would not make sense in real life (e.g. galloping on a dirt path). Once audiences become accustomed to certain sound effects, however inaccurate, they come to expect those sounds. When audiences expect the fake sound, they might even think the film/show is inaccurate if it uses a different, more accurate sound for the same effect. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheCoconutEffect https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheCoconutEffect
- ldbooth 6y agoThanks for confirming! ... Those were eagles I saw on that run months back :) Yea they have a funny bird call, super distinct staccato, unmistakable.
- lacker 6y agoOh wow, I was biking in the Berkeley/Oakland hills recently and was surprised to hear what I thought was a clear eagle call, because I never see eagles around but I frequently see red-tailed hawks. It all makes sense now!
- AtomicOrbital 6y agoin that recording the eagle was just chatting not in an aggressive attack mode so its not a screech sound
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