Can anyone explain how a little bitty birdie can sing SO LOUD??

[grasswire]

Today I was waiting for a city bus at a busy, busy intersection. Traffic was very loud. And yet a little bitty bird in the tippy top of a very tall tree was heard loud and clear over the din, singing its heart out.

How can something so tiny make so much volume? There has to be a scientific explanation.

Yes?

[elleng]

1. The answer lies in the songbird’s vocal anatomy,

according to the pros.

http://birdnote.org/show/voices-and-vocabularies-how-birds-sing-so-loudly

[darkangel218]

2. Same as how some lil dogs sound like theyre 300lbs monsters :p

Small body, big heart(voice)!

[IcyPeas]

3. have you ever had a cricket in your house

talk about something so tiny making such a big noise!!!

[olddots]

4. our hearing is very efficient at certain frequencies

This is why a tiny speaker in a cell phone or a tiny bird can seem so loud .TV and radio commercials compress sound into frequencies we can hear louder too .So far technology copies nature although some people seem to want to be robots .

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Mockingbird, by any chance?

Don't know where you were...

I DO know that a house wren can warble loud enough to hurt your ears, and that our mockingbirds are pretty damn loud.
We have a mockingbird that sounds exactly like an electric alarm clock going off...beep beep beep beep.

[grasswire]

6. no, not a mockingbird

I've had one of those in a tree outside the bedroom window, thank you, when I lived in the East. This was a smallish bird; couldn't really see it well. No mockingbirds here.

[angel823]

7. probably

Carolina wren - love 'em!

Angel in TExasperated

[Skittles]

8. a mockingbird perfectly immitated a coworker's car alarm

he set it off several times to be sure that was happening

the bird was loud!!!