A large tropical bird from South America, also known as the bellbird, known for its extremely loud and distinctive call.
From Portuguese 'araponga,' which comes from the Tupi language of Brazil. The word is imitative, mimicking the loud ringing sound the bird makes. The bird belongs to the family Cotingidae and is found in the Atlantic rainforest.
The araponga's call is one of the loudest of any bird and sounds like a bell clanging—it's so loud that indigenous peoples could hear it from great distances and used it to navigate through the dense rainforest!
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