Nature can produce some weird shit.

Open your window — sorry, let me rephrase. Put the Trader Joe’s Tikka Masala down, wipe the crumbs off your shirt, exit the basement, then open your window. Hear that? That’s the sound of birds welcoming you to the beauty of the great outdoors!

Okay, now you can go back downstairs.

While we’re all familiar with the standard “tweet tweet” sounds that birds make, that doesn’t encompass the broad, weird landscape of bird sounds. Here are some of the weirder ones that you may not have heard before: