That's indirectly why they're here in North America. Someone thought we needed the birds of Shakespeare (thank God he didn't get as far as the common cuckoo), and at one point in _Henry IV Part 1_ Hotspur says, "Nay/I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak/Nothing but Mortimer, and give it him/To keep his anger still in motion."
I had a blackbird once in the area of my house and every morning and night it would imitate the call of every bird in the district about 12 or so. I loved that Bird. It was wild and I felt honored to have it sit on my roof and perform for me.
Amazing. I used to sing back & mimic a blackbird that visited my conifer tree at sunset every single day during lockdown. The variety in their calls truly is unbelievable. We'd sit 50 yards apart for half an hour or so, do our thing, and each head home. Often made my day
@@brianjones4026amen!!! 😊 This bird is doing exactly what God created him to do and he’s slaying it! ❤ This is why He created these amazing things that make us wonder…so we would know that Someone bigger created it all with order and purpose and beauty. All of it points to God! 🎉
Starlings make the craziest sounds. They sound so different from the sounds other talking birds make. They have a crazy amount of fidelity, and often an electronic edge to them.
Oh it IS a Starling! What a darling Starling he is too! I never knew they were mimics… that was definitely a fighting game impersonation in the middle. Im blown away!
Birb woke up feeling like a camera shutter, R2D2, a blaster, your neighbor's dog, an alarm clock and at least three other types of birbs. What a pleasant little fella you have there. Much love! 😊
My starling's name is "Wingnut" and after 6 years of companionship, pattern recognition and basic observation, I agree 100%. My experiences have rendered the term "bird brain" a compliment. Ever see a large flock move like fluid in the sky? That is communication science can't explain.
@pierrelabrecque8979 it is communication science can explain. And really cool communication at that. It's beautifully simple. There are computer simulations that mimic the pattern in just a few simple parameters. And although getting simulations of long term flocking behaviors where they need to be headed in generally the right direction for days at a time Is much more complex, that's simulating migratory or feeding and mating behaviors not just flocking. It's very very very complex, but so simply orchestrated. That's the sign of great communication and planning. If you design a car that can run on three parts each of which can be easily built in some dude's garage that's incredible. Simplicity and ease aren't insults.
It has communication potential, but at this moment it is simply able to produce a vast gamma of sounds. Communication is not only about phonetic utterance; the sounds need to be 'deciphered' by someone else (another starling in this case) as well, in order to actually be 'communication'; the ability to decipher this depends on the complexity of the nervous system, which is pretty simple is starlings. The ability to actually perceive the sounds in all their complexity is another factor, but I'm not familiar with the auditorial capacity of starlings or birds of any kind (to make this clearer, while humans perceive the sound in one way, it is possible that a starling simplifies the sound, whereas a dog hears it as even more complex than humans do). I am not a zoologist, but I spend most of my free time studying linguistics and semiotics (zoosemiotics as well). This bird is still marvelous, though, and I don't mean to take that away from it with my answer, which potentially clarified some misconceptions about communication
@@australopithecus_lucisThanks, I was just thinking that I felt a bit sad that "conversations" don't seem really possible despite the complexity of the sounds that are being repeated by the bird. I wish that someone, through repetition, could train the bird to associate specific sounds with specific actions, like feeding, petting, opening a window, putting some music on the radio, turning the lights on or off, ... Or even with specific food items, like apple, sunflower seeds, grapes, ... or specific people, and then observe if the bird starts using them in a meaningful way, such as requests or observations / repetition of associations.
It makes me wonder how these birds keep all their programming of these sounds & then ( looks like ) they repeat the sounds stored in their brains. Soooo interesting !! 👍👍👍😍
We call these birds spreeuwen in Dutch and there is a group of them that started living in/near train stations (I know they have them in Rotterdam). People started noticing that there'd be train/whistle sounds seemingly out of nowhere and it turns out they decided to learn those sounds. So the sounds of train brakes, closing doors, the whistle of the train conductor and probably more. There are videos online of them doing it and it's honestly really funny
@@RyanJosepher Well, probably not, but I do think they were far more intelligent than we were previously led to believe and probably had quite an advanced way of communicating with each other.
Once upon a time, sitting at a barbeque table eating lunch, I was nearly attacked by pigeons who wanted to steal my food. Then a Starling flew in, landed on the table away from the pigeons, and began singing. Guess who got a treat?😊
Beautiful little bird. Thank you for sharing your wonderful experiences with this little sweetheart. Animals: .... smarter than we all think, only the twolegged-ones claim they are not smart or do not 'feel'. God bless you Sarah & this little Starling.
I love these cuties , I always see them on my way to work being busy digging in the grass and stuff, and these weeks especially during the mating season they sing very beautifully 🎶 🎼 🐦
@@nyancat8828 Pigeons are fascinating birds but..... Raptors are (efficient killing machines that rival felines & sharks). Ravens/Crows/Parrots (scary intelligent & long lived...even among birds who are known for their longevity when compared to similarly sized mammals) Also the fact that monogamy is such a novel concept in the animal kingdom, yet so many bird species practice this is extremely interesting. Monogamy often seems to be linked with elevated intelligence (2 animals mating for life, then raising & protecting their offspring in mutual cooperation seems like a sophisticated strategy. And humans are the rare mammal that does this with any regularity.
@@justaregularguy115 I'm not really sure what this has to do with anything I said 😅 I love all birds (even brood parasites)... pigeons just happen to be my favourite
A beautiful spotted minstrel... I once lived under the roof where starlings and sparrows nestled. I didn't need an alarm clock in the morning... 😂 I was always playing classical flute music in the morning, when the starlings took a bath in the rain gutter. Maybe they took over some of it in their songs, because they are such good imitators!
Hi Rob....that classical flute sounds beautiful....do you still play? If so, you "otter" upload it here to YT so the world can be charmed! I used to play flute myself, but never got very good at it. I'm an old dancer, still dancing, tho. ☺️⚘️🎶💃🎶⚘️ Ole'!
These birds are crazy cool, their vocal range is insane and it makes you think the noises are fake. I wonder if some dinosaurs could make noises like this. Imagine a T-Rex lumbering around making these noises 😂
Pretty sure T-Rex would have been a few octaves lower. But it does make you think a dinosaur forest could be a pretty amazing sounding place first thing in the morning.
The "voice actor" for the velociraptors in Jurassic Park was a rescued Bald Eagle in a zoo in Palo Alto. She's very chatty so it was easy to record eagle vocalizations. @@butterphli3z
I love how he opened and closed with the same sound. Almost reminded me of the sound of a VHS starting and stopping. Uh-oh, giving my age away 😂 Also loved the visuals with the throat feathers moving. Amazing.
im 20 and find myself loving and also owning when i was younger VHS tapes, Im starting to develop film and do celluoid, etc so youre never too old for VHS!
He is saying, "look at all those cars with four exhausts still, don't you humans know we are in a climatic emergency and us Starlings are on the critically endangered list?"
Starling, so named because as they fly overhead looking like large clouds, they look just like sparkling stars. (just like what you see when you almost pass out, or faint)
Sounds about right. We had a starling outside our house who would sing to us. It would be every sound of the city: various car alarms, kids playing, sirens of different types, sounds of machinery, etc. It would take about a minute or two to go through all the different noises it learned. First time I heard it I was stunned.
Besides fascinating me, my little Yorkie was listening, looking behind my iPad, turning her head this way and that. Total concentration on the bird music. Thank you.
One look and listen to this wonderful performance by a feathered friend and it befuddles me how so many human beings on Earth have such disregard for Nature, and take all its wonders for granted.
It befuddles me how so many who love and appreciate the incredible beauty, mystery and intricacies of nature and creation can so completely overlook its Creator.
