What is the most recognizable bird call?

Some of these you could hum. One of them you have heard a thousand times in films and never once from the bird that supposedly makes it.

1. 1
   Rooster

   The alarm clock of agriculture, rendered differently in every language on Earth.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Red-tailed Hawk

   The descending scream Hollywood dubs over eagles, hawks and anything else that needs to sound fierce.
   731pts
3. 3
   Canada Goose

   The honking overhead V that announces the season twice a year.
   731pts
4. 4
   Common Nightingale

   The night singer of European poetry, with a repertoire of more than a thousand phrases.
   705pts
5. 5
   Great Horned Owl

   The deep hoo-hoo that every film uses to say night has fallen.
   548pts
6. 6
   Northern Mockingbird

   A mimic that copies other birds, car alarms and phone ringtones, all night if unpaired.
   548pts
7. 7
   Bald Eagle

   A thin, high chatter of whistles and chirps that sound engineers refuse to use.
   448pts
8. 8
   Common Loon

   A tremolo wail across a still northern lake, used as shorthand for wilderness in film.
   448pts
9. 9
   American Crow

   A hard caw that carries over traffic and gave a group of them the name murder.
   448pts
10. 10
    Laughing Kookaburra

    An Australian kingfisher whose cackle was borrowed for jungle scenes it never lived in.
    448pts
11. 11
    Common Cuckoo

    Two notes that gave the clock its name and the brood parasite its reputation.
    448pts
12. 12
    Eastern Whip-poor-will

    A nightjar that says its own name for hours and is now vanishing from eastern woods.
    448pts
13. 13
    European Herring Gull

    The long call of every seaside town and every film set at one.
    329pts
14. 14
    Indian Peafowl

    A piercing may-awe that surprises anyone who only knows the bird from photographs.
    329pts
15. 15
    Mourning Dove

    A soft five-note coo mistaken for an owl by most people who hear it.
    183pts