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Clever old blackbird mimic!!

Check out this blackbird mimicking an ambulance and ringing fone !! Even bird experts are impressed with it ;-)http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/0 7/11/video-blackbird-keeps-family-awake-by-mim icking-ambulance-siren-89520-20638585/


lindapinda  Fri 11/07/08 22:33
Cetti
Fri 11/07/08
23:22
Hi linda, how are you?
Thank you so much for putting the video onsite. I read about this amazing bird in the Mail today and have been dying to hear it. It's incredible, isn't it? Like most people I've heard numerous Starlings mimic everything from a phone to chickens, but never a Blackie. Thanks again!
alfieblue
Sat 12/07/08
10:59
Lol! Just played it - clever blackie!!! My old tame blackbird 'Yellowbeak' could imitate the milkman whistling as he did his morning round!!! The guy would whistle a tune (same every morn!), then the bird would copy him - all at 4.30/5 in the morn!!!! It was like an echo and started off the dawn chorus big time!!!

My pup is howling now after listening to the siren mimicking blackie!!! He's just gone off to investigate where the noise is coming from. Bless!!! x
lindapinda
Sat 12/07/08
14:38

Question Author

Hi Cetti and Alfie,he's brill isn't he;-).I'vr never heard any birds doing the mimic thing,so,this is a great treat for me! Little does he know how famous he is eh? Hope the pup's stopped howling by now alfie lol
Myriad2112
Sat 12/07/08
14:43
There's one in my road that thinks it's a mobile phone.
tiggerblue10
Sat 12/07/08
14:43
Hi Linda,

That just reminded me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y&fea ture=related
alfieblue
Sat 12/07/08
14:50
Lol at the Lyre bird tiggerblue!!!! The pup has gone off on one again - howling!!! Amazing film. :o)x
lindapinda
Sat 12/07/08
15:02

Question Author

Hi Tigger ! That was unbelievable lol..my fav bit was the camera with the motor drive !! Thanx a lot. am actually sitting here at the puter and watching The Bird Man of Alcatraz,I remember seeing it as a child,but,it's much more interesting nowadays!
abstract
Sat 12/07/08
15:12
i watched the whole documentary and unfortunately after the bird makes the chainsaw noise david goes on to say that the birds mimicking the loggers that have come to chop down his home and make him extinct or something like that!

Robinia
Sat 12/07/08
18:39
haha, well that's amazing but I can see how the novelty of it might soon wear off linda! Maybe they should play him some Andrea Bocelli or something in the hope he'll learn to wake them up to that! :o)
lindapinda
Sat 12/07/08
22:34

Question Author

Lol Robinia,thats not a bad idea!!
bigmamma
Sat 12/07/08
22:47
Wow , lindapinda , hi there hun , that's amazing , how clever birds are , that one in your link too tigger , I found that lyre bird awesome .
lindapinda
Sun 13/07/08
00:29

Question Author

Hi bm;-)..glad you liked that !! It never ceases to amaze me,just how clever birds and animals are.
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