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The giant bird that was on my roof one night in 2006.
When it's wings lifted it sounded like 1,000 prayer flags in tornado force winds. When the wings flapped down they made a percussive boom sound like a thunderclap. And the best/worst was how it screamed when it glided over my neighbors house.
It sounded like a mixture of a screaming eagle & a bellowing alligator. Absolutely terrifying & I've never heard anything like it, even after listening to hundreds of audio recordings of raptor calls.
That's no raptor, that description sounds like the noises made by a disgruntled Great Blue Heron lifting off at night when it has been disturbed. They are capable of being much quieter but they hate being disturbed at night and they go all dinosaur and let the whole world know exactly how angry they are when they take off into flight at night. Try finding some audios online of Great Blue Herons lifting off or roaring like a Tyrannosaurus Rex when they're angry.
The giant bird that was on my roof one night in 2006.
When it's wings lifted it sounded like 1,000 prayer flags in tornado force winds. When the wings flapped down they made a percussive boom sound like a thunderclap. And the best/worst was how it screamed when it glided over my neighbors house.
It sounded like a mixture of a screaming eagle & a bellowing alligator. Absolutely terrifying & I've never heard anything like it, even after listening to hundreds of audio recordings of raptor calls.
THESE: What animal sounds like a woman screaming?
Because of their wide range, large population and comfort in developed areas, red foxes are the most common animal described as making a sound like a woman screaming. Foxes, fishers, bobcats and cougars also make similar sounds.
Up here in New England it's the fisher cat as we call it, in fact earlier today we had a huge fisher jump out of the woods and go bounding across the road with a big gray fox squirrel in it's mouth. Wife freaked out and thought it'd caught a snackcat.
I think the cry of a cougar in the middle of the night is the spookiest sound. I've read that it was supposed to sound like a woman in distress, and when we heard that cry, coming from the woods at our own property in North Idaho some years ago, it absolutely sounded like a woman crying out in mortal anguish. Sent shivers down my spine. Next day our neighbor verified that it really was "an old tom," a male puma. It had been harassing her livestock.
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We get coyotes, bobcats and raccoons all the time, but the first time I heard one of our local Barred Owls and didn't know what it was I was puzzled in an eerie kind of way.
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