A flightless parrot digs its own amphitheatre and booms for a mate all night

Male kakapo carve shallow bowl-shaped pits against rock faces that work like natural amplifiers, then inflate their chests and boom into them for hours — one bird was recorded making 17,000 booms in a single night. The call can carry 5 kilometres, letting scattered males on a mountainside all summon the same females at once.

— New Zealand Department of Conservation; standard ornithological accounts, Kākāpō — Lek breeding system, Strigops habroptilus

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