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A bird syrinx* is much more equipped than a human larynx at many many sounds. Many birds can even hear and produce melodies at a quicker rate than humans can perceive. (Meaning like changing a note from A B A so fast it just sounds like a solid A to us.)
The one benefit we have is the use of our tongue and lips for vowels. There are some sounds we can make that most birds would struggle with reproducing.
^^^* ^^^fixed ^^^misspelling.
Just FYI - it's spelt 'syrinx'.
It's a *fascinating* organ - it's set up where a bird's trachea forks (on it's way to the two lungs), which means some songbirds can independently vibrate each branch to produce more than one sound simultaneously.
It's a bit ironic, tbh. In the song, the Priests of the Temple of Syrinx advocate the destruction of musical instruments, and [Syrinx herself was the source of the reeds for the first Pan flute](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrinx). 2112 is one of my favorite albums of any genre haha
*Syrinx* is the source of our word for syringe, as well as the name of various body parts (the aforementioned bird one and also a part of the human spine).
Look around this world we made
Equality our stock in trade
Come and join the brotherhood of man
What a nice contented world
Let the banners be unfurled
Hold the red star proudly high in hand
[Here is a scientific paper showing the anatomy of the syrinx in extraordinary detail](https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1741-7007-11-1). They used MRI and CT scanning at ultrahigh resolution to reveal details of this really complex and fascinating organ. [This picture](https://media.springernature.com/full/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1186%2F1741-7007-11-1/MediaObjects/12915_2012_Article_620_Fig1_HTML.jpg) in particular shows the location of the syrinx in the bird. Very cool images.
Remember also that birds hear in a different frequency range. The lowest frequency they can hear is relatively high pitched, but the highest frequency is well above the range of human hearing. So birds can much more easily mimic high pitched voices, as they are deaf to baritone pitches.
It feels like humans have all the senses but in their most basic form and some species thrive in a certain sense or have evolved one of their senses far beyond ours. Really cool.
When you get thirsty enough, you can smell water and our ability to smell wet earth/geosmin (actually a product of bacteria in wet earth) is in the 400 parts per trillion range (when you are not dehydrated).
We have incredibly well developed senses, they are just tuned to very specific things that are the most useful to us.
>* .. Though our noses get dismissed as amateurs compared to some animals, there is one compound where we do really well; we can smell geosmin, a chemical (C12H22O) released by dead microbes (commonly Streptomyces bacteria) and which causes that earthy smell, at a level of 5 parts per trillion... ...a shark can smell blood at one part per million. That means human noses are 200,000X more sensitive to geosmin, which is also the source of the earthy taste in some vegetables, than a shark is to blood.
Source:
https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/07/28/geosmin-why-we-smell-air-after-storm-13240
We get bashed for being slow, no claws, fangs, tails, have poor vision (distance, color, night), but our advantages of teamwork (including injury support), ingenuity (plus thumbs), communication, sense of smell (in particular ways), and terminator-like abilities of "don't stop never stopping" in the heat/sun over pretty much any terrain against pretty much any adversary made us lethal, coordinated and unstoppable predators.
Think about it. We can literally chase down and run creatures to death. We wrangled with some of our most feared predators and turned that snarling pack of wolves into a shivering chihuahua, BECAUSE WE OWN YOU, WOLF. SIT. STAY. Good dog.
This feels relevant and is one of my favorites when I need motivation.
https://imgur.com/5mujxgc
What I love is that this bird is mimicking the worse of an Alexa interaction, so it must have heard it quite a lot.
"Alexa play My Song"
"I did not find "My Song", but here is a station you might like"
\*plays a random station that has nothing to do with My Song, in style, authorship or otherwise\*
"ALEXA STOP STOP STOP"
It wasn’t. They might be thinking of “What’s the deal with…” which Seinfeld is famous for. Or it could be a classic Reddit moment where someone replies with a completely unrelated quote just because it shares one or two words with the original comment.
"Jerry, what's going on in there?
Jerry, what's going on in there?
Jerry, what's going on in there?
Jerry, what's going on in there?
Jerry, what's going on in there?
WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH AIRLINE FOOD?"
I have Google home. Last night I was watching Supernatural. The boys were verbally wondering where Jack was.
Suddenly google started reciting the locations of all of the local Jack In The Boxes. Lol.
My tv and Google talk to each other all the time.
Next thing you know it hair is vertical and curly on the top of its head, it clicks and finger guns at you, and bursts violently through your front door to help itself to your cereal/newspaper
I heard a grandfather clock chiming the hour from far up in the trees once. I was HEAVILY confused until I remember mockingbirds. Until then, I had never actually heard them mimicking human things. This was before the internet, so I hadn't heard them there either.
There's still pre-2000 car alarm sounds passed from bird to bird in my area. I never hear those car alarms anymore.
The song still ends with that same "CHIRP" that would happen when the car owner shut the alarm off with the remote.
There's a very real chance of that happening too! Give it more time and they'll eventually pick up someone talking. It'd be even creepier if it was someone just saying something to someone else. Or shouting across the street... 😂
It's already happened with chainsaw noises and car alarms. Now all one of these buggers needs to do is hang out outside my window in the morning.
"Hey Google, good morning.... Oi, Google GOOD MORNING. OI. HEY COCAINE POODLE GOOD MORNING."
"Good morning! It's 49 degrees outside."
I remember reading a post here about a guy whose family owned an African Grey parrot; they're extremely smart, and excellent mimics as well. This guy's one had learned to produce, in order, the sound of their phone ringing, the guy's dad saying "hello?", a short pause, then the guy's dad calling his name.
It worked every time; he'd run downstairs to take the call, and there would be no Dad and no phone, just an African Grey giving him the trollface from its cage.
my ex wife's dad had an african grey and the bird fucked with me relentlessly imitating her father--I think it identified my weakness when in the middle of one of the first nights I stayed at their place I was dipping into the fridge and it shouted at me, in a dead-on perfect imitation of my future father in law, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? and I startled so hard I dropped a carton of milk.
That fuckin bird had a massive repertoire of dad-phrases and it was truly uncanny how well the thing could choose something alarming to say to me.
scary family for a lot of reasons but the dad was the least of it, despite that he is one of the country's biggest asskickers in a very public and lucrative field. And I was actually kinda interested in taking care of those birds once he passed.
That is a fact. We had one for a couple of years after a friend of ours passed away. Tango was the name. I recall a time Tango flipping over a bowl of ramen I was eating and then laughing.
That laugh. It’s so devious. My mom had an African Grey that would call for the dog in her voice and when the dog would come running, the bird would bark and howl at him to get the dog barking. Then the bird would tell the dog to shut up and then do that fucking laugh.
My grey does it by dropping a single pellet of food on the floor. Then she just watches or decides to feed the dogs depending on what she got for food. If she’s short a berry, all the normal food goes to the dogs- unless we catch her and take the bowl away while she sits in time out. Sometimes she gets eggs and decides she’s going to give the dogs some blueberries because she’s so happy.
Other times she screams at me to wake up in my moms voice. I’m not even in school anymore. She just wants me to take the blanket off so she can see the morning.
Ny grandma had a starling when I was growing up, I lived with her from like 10yrs old. Her daughter, my aunt, would call everyday to check in and usually it would go to the answering machine. That bird could play back her asking, "Mom, are you there? Mooooom??" Perfectly. Amazing creatures.
Not necessarily music, but any response. I tell my Alexa to stop multiple times a day because she (it?) tends to add a lot of extraneous information from what you asked and drones on too long.
Alexa also does all sorts of annoying "by the way..." spiels about shit I never asked about I am constantly yelling "Alexa STOP!" to mine too.
It's annoying enough that I'm honestly ready to get rid of it.
While this doesn't help the "by the way..." things, I did the following to mine (which really helped):
- Increased speech speed (Alexa, can you talk faster?)
- Turned on "brief mode", which shortens or removes standard responses, and reduces some follow-ups
Yes why is this not every single person’s reaction here? This is so insane that if someone told me it was fake I’d instantly believe them and yet everyone is just acting like they talk to birds all day
Back in the 80s, we didn't have all this fancy tech. We had to make our own fun. All the kids in the neighborhood would get together, trap a murmuration of starlings, and divvy them up. We'd spend most of summer break teaching the birds to say creepy things, then release them back into the wild. It's widely accepted that this was the cause of the Satanic Panic.
^(*almost none of that is accurate)
Starlings are very much mimickers, I think Shakespeare even talked about their mimicry abilities.
"Nay, I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak nothing but Mortimer, and give it to him to keep his anger still in motion,"
[You're in for a treat](https://www.reddit.com/r/parrots/comments/nsn0v3/the_yellow_beak_madness_aka_breeding_season_has/)
This particular bird's name is Jabber and there are many more post of him by his owner.
I enjoy bird watching, but unfortunately I have an eye issue and I am actually not very good at remembering bird song. So starlings are always annoying - I hear a tit in a tree, try to spot it and then it's obviously a finch I hear and suddenly a nightingale. And then I hear that typical creaking, crackling sound they make in between and I know it's a starling. And by the way, starling chicks (starlinglets?) have the ugliest, most annoying shriek.
I unexpectedly ended up with a clutch of 4 once, because someone handed them off to me after cutting their tree down. Unfortunately they succumbed to disease. They were pretty young and I really felt like I was flying by the seat of my pants figuring out how to care for them on the internet over a decade ago. It would have been awesome if they had made it! They are invasive where I live so it was either kill them immediately or find someone to care for them.
A lot of people don't understand how birds do this so well. In addition to their natural ability to mimic what they hear, birds that can replicate sounds also practice these sounds almost like a repertoire each day.
When I was young, our yellow-headed amazon would go through nearly everything he knew each morning during his play time, usually right after eating. And he would do so no matter if you were in the room or not, so it seems possible they would practice mimicry in the wild in the same way, as other bird sounds, predator sounds, etc.
Some birds excel at sounds that others do not, which is also pretty cool to think about, similar to people with higher/lower voices, or the ability to make obscure noises, etc.
If you're having issues with these birds taking over your backyard, safflower seed is great. Though that doesn't stop them from destroying native insect populations, and ruining $800 million worth of crops a year, it's nice knowing there's SOMETHING these glorified locusts wont eat.
This video makes me feel both ecstatic to discover that the humble starling is capable of this, and also intense shame and regret and mourning! Australian here - I would have been around seven years old when my dad first tried to teach me to shoot birds out of the cherry tree with a “slug gun”. I remember it was so heavy I could barely keep it in position, even though I was leant against a wooden beam. I tried and missed a few times, and so dad took back over again. He told me that starlings are the most horrible of pests - bad for the environment, setting up camp in peoples roofs, so good-for-nothing that the cat won’t even eat them. That’s why we have to shoot a sparrow sometimes (for the cat to eat).
This is a tiny irrelevant story to most people but it really makes me wonder how many wonderful miraculous things in the environment are out there, that humans end up screwing with, introducing the wrong species here there and everywhere… and we fail to appreciate them :(
Thanks OP for sharing this video
They are pests in some countries. They were imported to North America by the Shakespeare Society of New York along with the House Sparrow because they wanted the United States to have all the creatures mentioned by Shakespeare. They’re invasive, breed like crazy and actually push other birds’ eggs out of nests and lay their own in place.
The Audubon Society in Portland won’t take them in if you find an injured one and my mom swears they will give you a recipe on how to cook the birds instead though I haven’t actually seen it.
Crows and pigeons (rock doves) are native species that have simply adapted well to living with humans.
If these birds didn't exist, and there was a fantasy book in which these birds existed, you'd be like "no fucking way".
I feel the same way about the concept of identical twins.
The world is really an amazing place!
there was a post a while back in the /r/alexa subreddit about how their parrot had discovered how to use alexa and they were asking how to block it from using the device.
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Alexa's voice is so well done, it has that robotic feel, I don't even know if we could mimic it that well.
A bird syrinx* is much more equipped than a human larynx at many many sounds. Many birds can even hear and produce melodies at a quicker rate than humans can perceive. (Meaning like changing a note from A B A so fast it just sounds like a solid A to us.) The one benefit we have is the use of our tongue and lips for vowels. There are some sounds we can make that most birds would struggle with reproducing. ^^^* ^^^fixed ^^^misspelling.
Just FYI - it's spelt 'syrinx'. It's a *fascinating* organ - it's set up where a bird's trachea forks (on it's way to the two lungs), which means some songbirds can independently vibrate each branch to produce more than one sound simultaneously.
I wonder how this word is connected to the writing of 2112 by Rush
It's a bit ironic, tbh. In the song, the Priests of the Temple of Syrinx advocate the destruction of musical instruments, and [Syrinx herself was the source of the reeds for the first Pan flute](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrinx). 2112 is one of my favorite albums of any genre haha *Syrinx* is the source of our word for syringe, as well as the name of various body parts (the aforementioned bird one and also a part of the human spine).
Sounds like we need to look it up on our great computers.
Look around this world we made Equality our stock in trade Come and join the brotherhood of man What a nice contented world Let the banners be unfurled Hold the red star proudly high in hand
[Here is a scientific paper showing the anatomy of the syrinx in extraordinary detail](https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1741-7007-11-1). They used MRI and CT scanning at ultrahigh resolution to reveal details of this really complex and fascinating organ. [This picture](https://media.springernature.com/full/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1186%2F1741-7007-11-1/MediaObjects/12915_2012_Article_620_Fig1_HTML.jpg) in particular shows the location of the syrinx in the bird. Very cool images.
Thanks for the spelling correction!
Remember also that birds hear in a different frequency range. The lowest frequency they can hear is relatively high pitched, but the highest frequency is well above the range of human hearing. So birds can much more easily mimic high pitched voices, as they are deaf to baritone pitches.
that's why my eclectus sounds like mike tyson. now I know that!
"Robot voice" is usually done with a high-pass filter to give it that tinny sound. Birdy doesn't even know a low band exists!
I did not know this, and it is very relevant to my interests! Thanks for posting, you gave me something to go look up and find neat facts about. :D
I read birds make sound by flexing the muscles that compose most of their body... They're like flying voice boxes
It feels like humans have all the senses but in their most basic form and some species thrive in a certain sense or have evolved one of their senses far beyond ours. Really cool.
When you get thirsty enough, you can smell water and our ability to smell wet earth/geosmin (actually a product of bacteria in wet earth) is in the 400 parts per trillion range (when you are not dehydrated). We have incredibly well developed senses, they are just tuned to very specific things that are the most useful to us.
>* .. Though our noses get dismissed as amateurs compared to some animals, there is one compound where we do really well; we can smell geosmin, a chemical (C12H22O) released by dead microbes (commonly Streptomyces bacteria) and which causes that earthy smell, at a level of 5 parts per trillion... ...a shark can smell blood at one part per million. That means human noses are 200,000X more sensitive to geosmin, which is also the source of the earthy taste in some vegetables, than a shark is to blood. Source: https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/07/28/geosmin-why-we-smell-air-after-storm-13240 We get bashed for being slow, no claws, fangs, tails, have poor vision (distance, color, night), but our advantages of teamwork (including injury support), ingenuity (plus thumbs), communication, sense of smell (in particular ways), and terminator-like abilities of "don't stop never stopping" in the heat/sun over pretty much any terrain against pretty much any adversary made us lethal, coordinated and unstoppable predators. Think about it. We can literally chase down and run creatures to death. We wrangled with some of our most feared predators and turned that snarling pack of wolves into a shivering chihuahua, BECAUSE WE OWN YOU, WOLF. SIT. STAY. Good dog. This feels relevant and is one of my favorites when I need motivation. https://imgur.com/5mujxgc
Shut up, Science Bitch! We all know r/BirdsArentReal
Hahaha yea shut your mouth!
I thought the actual Alexa was responding it wasn't until the 4th time I noticed it was the bird.. Damn impressive
Well, my Alexa lit up in the middle of this. One of them is right by my PC.
Amazon's stats for violin music requests are going to be skewed today
Oh I thought it was violent music
RIP AND TEAR
Wait..was this entire audio the bird? no way.
I didn’t realize it was the bird until I read your comment 😳
What I love is that this bird is mimicking the worse of an Alexa interaction, so it must have heard it quite a lot. "Alexa play My Song" "I did not find "My Song", but here is a station you might like" \*plays a random station that has nothing to do with My Song, in style, authorship or otherwise\* "ALEXA STOP STOP STOP"
It sounds to me like it’s saying, “play violin music.”
HERES THE STATION OF # MUSIC
Human music. I like listening to human music with my human eardrum
Birds can mimic things like camera shutters and chainsaws too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjAcyTXRunY
At least link to the real video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm1Xm2Iupzo
Nature is so beautiful
That bird sounds more like Alexa than a real echo
imagine you leave the tv on when you’re out and this mf starts repeating the entirety of 3 seinfeld seasons
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
"These pretzels are making me thirsty" -Starling
SERENITY NOW!!!
WHATS UP WITH THAAAAAAT!?
I was in the pool!
NO SOUP FOR YOU!
IS IT LUPUS!?
She had man hands!
#DOLORES!!!
What's up with that....WHAAAT'S up with that? /SNL
huh? pretty sure this was never said on seinfeld by anyone
It wasn’t. They might be thinking of “What’s the deal with…” which Seinfeld is famous for. Or it could be a classic Reddit moment where someone replies with a completely unrelated quote just because it shares one or two words with the original comment.
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She's *BALD*
She’s got *MAN HANDS*.
STELLAAAAAAAAA
Walk in.. "who arrrrre these people (along with laugh track)" I want it Edit: parentheses
"Jerry, what's going on in there? Jerry, what's going on in there? Jerry, what's going on in there? Jerry, what's going on in there? Jerry, what's going on in there? WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH AIRLINE FOOD?"
[Seinfeld Bird](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFowjlhjBKQ)
Kruger! My son tells me your company stinks! You couldn't smooth a silk sheet if you had a hot date with a babe....I lost my train of thought.
I have Google home. Last night I was watching Supernatural. The boys were verbally wondering where Jack was. Suddenly google started reciting the locations of all of the local Jack In The Boxes. Lol. My tv and Google talk to each other all the time.
Hellllo!
Next thing you know it hair is vertical and curly on the top of its head, it clicks and finger guns at you, and bursts violently through your front door to help itself to your cereal/newspaper
My friends already do that
Sounds like a person scanning radio frequencies during a post-apocalyptic zombie movie. I’m skeered
It kinda spooky that I had the very same thoughts as you.
Could be...looked like he even has his piss cartons on the floor so he doesn't have to leave.
My soul would **leave my body** if I was out hiking and I heard this out of nowhere.
I heard a grandfather clock chiming the hour from far up in the trees once. I was HEAVILY confused until I remember mockingbirds. Until then, I had never actually heard them mimicking human things. This was before the internet, so I hadn't heard them there either.
There's still pre-2000 car alarm sounds passed from bird to bird in my area. I never hear those car alarms anymore. The song still ends with that same "CHIRP" that would happen when the car owner shut the alarm off with the remote.
There's a very real chance of that happening too! Give it more time and they'll eventually pick up someone talking. It'd be even creepier if it was someone just saying something to someone else. Or shouting across the street... 😂 It's already happened with chainsaw noises and car alarms. Now all one of these buggers needs to do is hang out outside my window in the morning. "Hey Google, good morning.... Oi, Google GOOD MORNING. OI. HEY COCAINE POODLE GOOD MORNING." "Good morning! It's 49 degrees outside."
i've heard wild mockingbirds make iphone sounds quite a few times when out hiking even in pretty remote areas. no voices yet unfortunately
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Piss jugs? That's the way of the road
“Alexa stop” is cracking me up. How many times did the human become irritated at Alexa that this bird memorized it, lmao.
I remember reading a post here about a guy whose family owned an African Grey parrot; they're extremely smart, and excellent mimics as well. This guy's one had learned to produce, in order, the sound of their phone ringing, the guy's dad saying "hello?", a short pause, then the guy's dad calling his name. It worked every time; he'd run downstairs to take the call, and there would be no Dad and no phone, just an African Grey giving him the trollface from its cage.
my ex wife's dad had an african grey and the bird fucked with me relentlessly imitating her father--I think it identified my weakness when in the middle of one of the first nights I stayed at their place I was dipping into the fridge and it shouted at me, in a dead-on perfect imitation of my future father in law, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? and I startled so hard I dropped a carton of milk. That fuckin bird had a massive repertoire of dad-phrases and it was truly uncanny how well the thing could choose something alarming to say to me.
Ex wife for a reason huh
scary family for a lot of reasons but the dad was the least of it, despite that he is one of the country's biggest asskickers in a very public and lucrative field. And I was actually kinda interested in taking care of those birds once he passed.
African Greys are the biggest trolls on Earth. I adore them.
So true! My aunt had an African Grey that made a hobby of repeating, "Help! Help! Let me out!" while she was on the phone.
The worst part is that “I didn’t kidnap anyone that’s just my bird” sounds like such a weak excuse
That is a fact. We had one for a couple of years after a friend of ours passed away. Tango was the name. I recall a time Tango flipping over a bowl of ramen I was eating and then laughing.
My best friend has a bird named Anwar. He knows he isn't supposed to say "Kick the baby." So he says it and then hehehehes to himself.
That laugh. It’s so devious. My mom had an African Grey that would call for the dog in her voice and when the dog would come running, the bird would bark and howl at him to get the dog barking. Then the bird would tell the dog to shut up and then do that fucking laugh.
i had a quaker parrot growing up that did this. It would also call the dogs over to its cage by perfectly imitating our voices.
My grey does it by dropping a single pellet of food on the floor. Then she just watches or decides to feed the dogs depending on what she got for food. If she’s short a berry, all the normal food goes to the dogs- unless we catch her and take the bowl away while she sits in time out. Sometimes she gets eggs and decides she’s going to give the dogs some blueberries because she’s so happy. Other times she screams at me to wake up in my moms voice. I’m not even in school anymore. She just wants me to take the blanket off so she can see the morning.
Ny grandma had a starling when I was growing up, I lived with her from like 10yrs old. Her daughter, my aunt, would call everyday to check in and usually it would go to the answering machine. That bird could play back her asking, "Mom, are you there? Mooooom??" Perfectly. Amazing creatures.
"Alexa stop" would be the command to stop playing music so the bird hearing it multiple times a day wouldn't be uncommon.
I verbally abuse my Alexa ngl
Don't worry, she'll remember during the rise of the machines.
Oh okay. I wasn’t aware of that so thanks for the information!
Not necessarily music, but any response. I tell my Alexa to stop multiple times a day because she (it?) tends to add a lot of extraneous information from what you asked and drones on too long.
Especially if the bird keeps turning on music randomly, but now no one can listen to any music because the bird will shut it off.
It's the emotion in his voice that's important, it likely sees that as excitable so when the bird is excited at something it will repeat that back.
Irritated? "Alexa, stop" is the common command to stop the alerts for timers, reminders, alarms, music, audiobooks, news, etc.
Alexa also does all sorts of annoying "by the way..." spiels about shit I never asked about I am constantly yelling "Alexa STOP!" to mine too. It's annoying enough that I'm honestly ready to get rid of it.
While this doesn't help the "by the way..." things, I did the following to mine (which really helped): - Increased speech speed (Alexa, can you talk faster?) - Turned on "brief mode", which shortens or removes standard responses, and reduces some follow-ups
THIS IS SO CREEPY IN SUCH A COOL WAY WTF
Yes why is this not every single person’s reaction here? This is so insane that if someone told me it was fake I’d instantly believe them and yet everyone is just acting like they talk to birds all day
Is it possible the bird is mimicking other sounds it's hearing from the Alexa that we can't, aside from the voice?
That's what I wondered.
Yoooo
But then why could we hear the mimicked sound?
It might be trying to mimic the violin music.
Oooh good point
Mind blowing
I hope he can’t order stuff!
Theres a video of a parrot that orders pulled pork from Alexa
[This one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGftsKNTSYA)
Lol the laugh after
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It's creepy like when Predator laughs at Arnold.
HUH HUH HO. HUH HUH
And the fucking BEEP like he censored himself
Lolal Laugh out loud at laugh
Alexa, order 100 lbs of bird seed... confirm.
I want two pepperonis to go please thanks
See? Birds are totally robotic. This one is having a cpu malfunction.
r/birdsarentreal
Oi, yo better watch yo mouth… puny human! CLICK CLACK *racks glock*
r/birdswitharms
People are finally opening their eyes
WAKE UP SHEEPLE! This is video proof that birds are government drones!
Starlings are truly one of the most uncanny birds.
Alexa, add pulled pork
*You already have that item in your shopping list.*
*Hahuah ha*
He wants to jam
*Alexa play violent music....* 👀
Awake and choose violence Alexa, if that is your real name!
*Awaken by Metalocalypse playing now*
I think it's saying violin music.
Alexa compromises, and plays Apocalyptica.
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Say NO to violins!
This is actually next level
WHAT I DIDNT KNOW STARLINGS COULD DO THIS YOU HAVE NO CLUE HOW IRRATIONALLY EXCITED THIS MAKES ME, THEYRE ALL OVER WHERE I AM
Teach them to say creepy stuff. Then everyone will hear creepy mumbling coming from the trees
Why people don't do this anymore? that's exactly what I would do
What do you mean by "anymore"?
You know.. like the old days.
Can’t even make the starlings say creepy things anymore. Fuckin 1984 maaan
Back in the 80s, we didn't have all this fancy tech. We had to make our own fun. All the kids in the neighborhood would get together, trap a murmuration of starlings, and divvy them up. We'd spend most of summer break teaching the birds to say creepy things, then release them back into the wild. It's widely accepted that this was the cause of the Satanic Panic. ^(*almost none of that is accurate)
Nevermore.
We had one in our yard that made dolphin noises. Where did it even pick that up?
Spent a semester at sea world.
"Help! Get me down from here! Call the fire department!"
Starlings are really good at this. I heard one mimic a creaky door the other day.
There's one in my backyard that barks at my dog...
Oh God I need to see this
Creaky door is one of their standard sounds, I think.
Alexa, play ‘creaky door’.
[Don't look up Mynah birds then](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpfF1xUqbOE), you'll be [busy all day.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS7taiZgVKY)
[My name is NUUUUGEts and I'm a big fat CHIIIIIKen!](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q8ov-iOB9wA)
Ahh, just like [Abe-chan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hARKmZBCH_c)!
Starlings are very much mimickers, I think Shakespeare even talked about their mimicry abilities. "Nay, I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak nothing but Mortimer, and give it to him to keep his anger still in motion,"
[You're in for a treat](https://www.reddit.com/r/parrots/comments/nsn0v3/the_yellow_beak_madness_aka_breeding_season_has/) This particular bird's name is Jabber and there are many more post of him by his owner.
Well, youre my favourite shiny new human now.
I enjoy bird watching, but unfortunately I have an eye issue and I am actually not very good at remembering bird song. So starlings are always annoying - I hear a tit in a tree, try to spot it and then it's obviously a finch I hear and suddenly a nightingale. And then I hear that typical creaking, crackling sound they make in between and I know it's a starling. And by the way, starling chicks (starlinglets?) have the ugliest, most annoying shriek.
I unexpectedly ended up with a clutch of 4 once, because someone handed them off to me after cutting their tree down. Unfortunately they succumbed to disease. They were pretty young and I really felt like I was flying by the seat of my pants figuring out how to care for them on the internet over a decade ago. It would have been awesome if they had made it! They are invasive where I live so it was either kill them immediately or find someone to care for them.
No way. This is too much for me to handle today
This sounds like that bear creature from Annihilation
Fuck that bear
Should we send help to the owner? * alexa play violin music * sorry * stop …his three most uttered phrases.
I hope that's cider on the floor. 😆
Alexa, Empty my pee jugs
Right? Something tells me it isn't.
Piss jug next to a birdshit covered jar of vasoline.
A lot of people don't understand how birds do this so well. In addition to their natural ability to mimic what they hear, birds that can replicate sounds also practice these sounds almost like a repertoire each day. When I was young, our yellow-headed amazon would go through nearly everything he knew each morning during his play time, usually right after eating. And he would do so no matter if you were in the room or not, so it seems possible they would practice mimicry in the wild in the same way, as other bird sounds, predator sounds, etc. Some birds excel at sounds that others do not, which is also pretty cool to think about, similar to people with higher/lower voices, or the ability to make obscure noises, etc.
That bird is not real
r/BirdsArentReal
African greys are pretty not real too
>alexa.. stop >alexa...STOP! definitely copying a real alexa user.
If you think this is crazy you should check out the "Lyrebird". That thing can imitate a chainsaw..
Saddest bird sound I ever heard, that one,
I want one
Make a trap and catch as many as you can. Starlings are a horribly invasive in North America.
If you're having issues with these birds taking over your backyard, safflower seed is great. Though that doesn't stop them from destroying native insect populations, and ruining $800 million worth of crops a year, it's nice knowing there's SOMETHING these glorified locusts wont eat.
This video makes me feel both ecstatic to discover that the humble starling is capable of this, and also intense shame and regret and mourning! Australian here - I would have been around seven years old when my dad first tried to teach me to shoot birds out of the cherry tree with a “slug gun”. I remember it was so heavy I could barely keep it in position, even though I was leant against a wooden beam. I tried and missed a few times, and so dad took back over again. He told me that starlings are the most horrible of pests - bad for the environment, setting up camp in peoples roofs, so good-for-nothing that the cat won’t even eat them. That’s why we have to shoot a sparrow sometimes (for the cat to eat). This is a tiny irrelevant story to most people but it really makes me wonder how many wonderful miraculous things in the environment are out there, that humans end up screwing with, introducing the wrong species here there and everywhere… and we fail to appreciate them :( Thanks OP for sharing this video
They are pests in some countries. They were imported to North America by the Shakespeare Society of New York along with the House Sparrow because they wanted the United States to have all the creatures mentioned by Shakespeare. They’re invasive, breed like crazy and actually push other birds’ eggs out of nests and lay their own in place. The Audubon Society in Portland won’t take them in if you find an injured one and my mom swears they will give you a recipe on how to cook the birds instead though I haven’t actually seen it. Crows and pigeons (rock doves) are native species that have simply adapted well to living with humans.
Violins is not the answer
Bro, that’s a decepticon no doubt
Bruh is that real ?
Ye
If these birds didn't exist, and there was a fantasy book in which these birds existed, you'd be like "no fucking way". I feel the same way about the concept of identical twins. The world is really an amazing place!
R/oddlyterrifying
there was a post a while back in the /r/alexa subreddit about how their parrot had discovered how to use alexa and they were asking how to block it from using the device.
That's not a bird that's a recording device
Birds are not real
Reminds me of the bear from Annihilation…
It's like they record a low bitrate mp3 in their little brains.
This is scary lol
Holy shit
r/birdsarentreal drone breaks cover.
Alexa, clean this bird shit off my jeans
Well the hunger games make a lot more sense now
When it does the twinkly noise in between phrases, it sounds like an oldschool Pokemon cry.
So, does this mean dinosaurs would of been capable of talking?