The sound of this one specific bird from Age of Empires keeps haunting me through pop songs, movies, and across other games
It's not uncommon for videogame sound effects to be sourced from sound effect libraries, which is why you sometimes hear the same ones show up in movies and TV shows. I've heard the whooshy Doom door sound effect in Doctor Who, Event Horizon, Galaxy Quest, and plenty of other places. But there is one specific bird sound, a tremolo warble that I know from Age of Empires, which I seem to hear more than anything else.
Mostly it's in pop songs. It plays repeatedly over the outro of Anaconda by Nicki Minaj...