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The fascinating Club-winged Manakin has modified wing feathers that enable the bird to make its “song” with its wings. The ridged, club-shaped feathers rake across each other, much like a spoon moving across a washboard, and produce a series of buzzing and snapping sounds. | Dionisio Paniagua

DYK a male Club-winged mannakin has feathers that "sing" a love song? The male doesn't have normal anatomy; he has a pair of club-shaped wing feathers, one pair for each wing, and these feathers have the special property of being able to resonate, if stimulated correctly, emitting sound at the frequency of his love song! Read more here: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/what-males-will-do-photo-gallery-manakin-anatomy/955/#:~:text=When the male manakin knocks,she ordered a CT scan.&text=Kim found

The only bird that plays music with its wings 🪽🎵 🎥 via @the_wild_savior 🐦The club winged manakin does not sing. Instead it creates a pure tone by rubbing two feathers together up to 100 times per second This sound is so precise that it matches the frequency of a musical note. But what is even more surprising is what scientists found inside Studies using X ray imaging revealed that the bones in this bird’s wings are unusually solid and dense unlike any other songbird. This makes them strong e