The Malta Independent 3 May 2025, Saturday
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Crackers: Bird Barks instead of sings!

Malta Independent Thursday, 20 September 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago

The Antpitta avis canis Ridgley is a bird that looks like a stuffed duck on stilts and barks like a dog. The bird was discovered by ornithologist Robert S. Ridgley in the Andes in Ecuador in June 1998.

Thirty of these long-legged, black-and-white barking birds were found. It apparently had gone undetected because it lives in remote parts and, of course, doesn’t sing. The size of a duck, it is one of the largest birds discovered in the last 50 years.

There are also dogs that do not bark! The basenji, smallish dog with a silky copper coat, does not bark. Instead, it yodels when it gets excited. Wild dogs like the African Wild Dog also do not bark.

http://www.didyouknow.cd/antpitta.htm

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