Screaming Piha

The screaming piha is 24 to 26 cm (9.4 to 10 in) long and weighs 68 to 87 g (2.4 to 3.1 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have medium gray upperparts. Their tail and their wings' flight feathers and greater coverts are browner or duskier. Their underparts are a paler gray that is palest on the throat. They have a brown, grayish brown, or gray iris, a black maxilla and a dusky mandible with a pinkish dusky base. Their legs and feet are highly variable with colors that include dark shades of green, brown, gray, and black. Voice: " Screaming Piha is famous for its characteristic qui, qui, yo call, which is audible through up to 400 m of rainforest" and is preceded by two or three fainter groo notes. The song exceeds 110 decibels at one meter, which "translated for human ears a value of loudness between 'discomfort' and 'pain' ".