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Sound levels of the call of a male white bellbird specimen recorded by Mario Cohn-Haft, an ornithologist at the National Institute of Amazonian Research and his team. This level - the most recorded for any bird - is about the same volume as a pneumatic drill and three times louder than the former loudest bird, the screaming piha. The bird lives in the mountains of the north-eastern Amazon
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