chk-chk-chk.

n.  the soft call of the Olive Thrush, as described in Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania by Dale A. Zimmerman.


n.  the sound of a garden sprinkler; see also chk chk chk.

<The clippers fell into a steady rhythm, a counterpoint to the chk-chk-chk of a sprinkler over the wooden fence that circled the garden.  —Barbara Parker, Blood Relations.>

chk-chk-chk-chk-chk.

n.  the “rough clucking” of the Rufous-Crowned or Purple Roller, as described in Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania by Dale A. Zimmerman; the “dry rapid”  call of the Moustached Green Tinkerbird, as described in Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania by Dale A. Zimmerman.

chk-chk-chk-chk-chk-chk-chk.

n.  the chatter of the Slender-Tailed Nightjar, as described in Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania by Dale A. Zimmerman.

chk-chk-chk-chk-chkchkchkchkchk.

n.  a squirrel’s chatter; see also chk-chk-chk.

<“Chk-chk-chk-chk-chkchkchkchkchk,” the squirrel jabbers, on a tree branch right above my little home on the hill here.  ... I look up at him, take off my baseball cap, try to figure out what he’s saying to me.  I know he’s trying to say something.  —J.G. Hayes, This Thing Called Courage: South Boston Stories.>

chkk.

n.  the sound of a knock at the door, as in the graphic novel ShadowFall by Kaichi Satake.

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