quonk

Unwanted noise picked up by a microphone in a broadcasting studio.

Audience chatter that disturbs the performer.

The honking sound of certain birds.

To produce unwanted noise.

The microphone quonked, caused the speakers to emit an electronic belch which looped and reverberated […]

To honk.

As we pushed among the reeds in the swamp, the grebes could be heard quonking in the buckbrush or beyond it.

[…] no goose was heard there, but lower down we heard some "quonking," […]