Bird that sounds like a monkey. Nuthatches are monogamous and defend a territory throughout the year. The sound is quite similar to a northern flicker s rattling call although it tends to be more resonant and less even in tone with changing emphasis or rhythm during the call. What kind of bird is this. Are you talking about the call of the laughing kookaburra. Pileated woodpeckers also give shorter calls that sound like wuk wuk or cuk cuk to indicate a territory boundary or to give an alarm. We could have sworn it was a monkey. The female white breasted nuthatch rarely strays far from her mate and stays in constant vocal contact when they are more than a few yards apart playing the dominate role as watchdog leaving the male more time to concentrate on hunting for food. After blowing a barred owl call in order to locate gobblers in a florida swamp some barredowls flew in and went completely nuts in the trees.