Have you ever seen a load of starlings flying together? It's worth looking up if you haven't, it's mesmerising, imagine them doing that while all sounding like R2D2 đ€Ł
Makes me wonder how many times throughout history did people think there was someone stalking them in the woods but really it was just a little bird mimicking them đ
A few years back I heard what sounded like a bird convention in the tree outside my window. There was a wide range of different bird calls and what randomly sounded like a childs screams. When I looked outside, it was single starling.
â@@sarahcoletti6946 no, a murmuration is when giant flocks of Starlings FLY as a flock. It has nothing to do with them talking, and is NOT simply them gathering
Growing up, we had a pet starling. She mimicked the AOL dial up sounds, rang like the phone, answered it and carried on her own conversation like she was talking on the phone.
@Jasmine Bischof We found her out of her nest and she had a long life. This video is the first I've seen of someone else having one as a pet. You will get big personality in a small bird, that's for sure.
@Fastertrack Wishing there was, now. Never realizing in 1999 that the AOL dial-up sounds would become merely ancient tales of the prehistoric days before smart phones and tik tok đ€Šââïžđ
I still can't comprehend how a bird can accurately pronounce words and mimic sound effects so perfectly without having any lips. Mind still blown till this day!
its not so much lip as it is tongue. Ive found that the more dexterous the tongue is, the better your accent can be when speaking different languages. I can whistle at 122db just using my tongue. its not just people either, birds have incredible tongues as well as they can shape the sound that comes out any way they want.
@@OpiatesAndTits R2D2 already sounds bird like, and birds are able to mimic sounds they hear after a while to use as calls for mates, or communication, some wild birds were known to mimic construction site noises after hearing it for 2-3 days.
@@ibeetellingya5683 If nothing matters, then why was it so important to you to make this comment? People act nihilist to seem woke and gain clout, and it's just weird.
When I was growing up, I used to try to talk to my dad about how animals could talk, but he would always brush it off as theyâre just manipulating their vocal cords to mimic us. But arenât we doing the same thing when we learn how to talk? It doesnât matter HOW they are doing it. Theyâre DOING IT. They are talking and it is incredible!
The only difference is that our sounds have a commonly understood meaning. It is unlikely that birds share the understanding for sounds they mimic. That being said, it is very clear that many animals, other than humans, clearly understand the meaning of their and our sounds. Both in domesticated and wild animals. We, on the other hand, understand very little of their verbal language. Kind of backwards, donât you think??
Check out the dogs and cats using buttons on the floor to communicate. The CZcams channel "What About Bunny" is a fascinating example. Amazing stuff, particularly when they come up with their own creative ways to use the words they have available for more complicated concepts or events. And if you're familiar with the self-awareness mirror test... Try watching a dog realizing that she recognizes _someone else_ in a mirror, and then describing that experience!
So nice that you're teaching your precious birdie to sing the Queen of the Night's aria. Great tribute to Mozart, who owned a starling and loved birds as well đŠđ
A priest's bird would be funny. Screaming Latin and excorcisms is something I would really like to see a starling bird do at people. Would scare a lot of people.
I haven't ever looked it up, but i swear, there are birds around here called cow birds, and I've listened to them making sounds like R2D2. I cannot imagine it's something taught to them, but the few that gather at the feeder make those exact sounds. I thought maybe i was going crazy, but I've heard them do it many times at this point. It's so cool! They aren't the "nicest" of friends to other birds, but they do sing pretty.
Itâs actually insane. Even such âstandardâ birds as blackbirds are amongst the most versatile birds at least of Europe when in comes to the actual number of different tunes they create and remember.
I had thought that it wasn't able to mimic the aria properly but I wonder if you're on to something! Human speech must be as difficult if not more to imitate for birds than a song, so I wonder if the bird was really consciously improvising. Would be fascinating if so.
I completely LOST it at the R2-D2 robot whistle sound mimicry!!! It's amazing how they remember whole phrases and tunes too, while not jumbling everything together to just produce sound salad. They actually mimic sounds intelligently.
this is do to an organ called the serynx witch unlike mammals larynx is at the start of the connection of the two lungs witch allows them to produce many complex calls even without lips the serynx or lack thereof is also why large therapod Dinosaurs likely couldn't roar also if you find yourself wondering whether birds are govorment drones or not you can almost always catch one and when you do you just need to grab the wings and slowly start to T W I S T ignore the crunching and blood curtailing screems because that could just be programed what you really need to pay attention to is the very prominent blood muscle and bone witch can be easily found by simply C R U S H I N G the bird into a fine mushy paste under your shoe just really get it in there smoosh smoosh and it should become a fluid witch computer parts generally don't do but if you want to be absolutely sure that it's not a robot you can put the S M A S H E D T W I S T E D paste that's left and carefully place it under a metal detector and an exray machine in order to remain 100% sure that they aren't robots đ
Not only did this bird just "mimic" almost everything it's heard, it even displayed a comprehension of music theory and improvised a variation that was on scale and perfectly in-tune. I'm freaking amazed!
yea I wondered if he could remember the whole tune but he improvised and sang the arpeggio of the right chord instead at the end.. almost more impressive!
@@dwylie83 Sorry, but I would need harder evidence than just your word to accuse someone of doing something like that. I know that it's possible, but I just don't believe that to be the case here.
@@jmarino715 go Google birds talking and you can hear the difference the sound comes from their throat and isn't perfect bc you need lips for perfect speech not only is this thing mimicking her words perfectly it's also doing her voice flawlessly. Work on your critical thinking skills
When I found out starlings could talk in the 1990s I was doing volunteer work for a woman who rescued birds and she had a lot of them in cages rehabilitating them. When I was passing its cage to go outside it said hey beautiful! It really made my day đ
@@Hemigoblin Blacksburg VA I saw some in FL imitating car alarms too and in Dallas so many would fill certain trees while chattering loudly. Then fly off as a black cloud somewhere else.
@@annegaynor9627 Okay. Anyone who is ârehabilitatingâ starlings in the US is misguided. I donât fault the birds themselves, but they are horribly invasive here. They kill native species, especially songbirds, and theyâre especially bad in urban environments and on farms. I hate being the bringer of bad news, but the best thing anyone can do with starlings in the US is to humanely euthanized them.
Starlings are accomplished mimics. They pick up sounds from other starlings and song birds but also from people and inanimate objects,â he explained. Their vocalizations include whistles, whizzes, rattles and pops. But it's the barks, child squeals, frog rib-bits and car horns that stump humans the most.
I remember the TV series "The World after people" saying that these types of birds will be the last remnants of live human speech on the planet because they teach this to their children.
Fun fact, birds are the survivors of the mass extinction that killed (most of) the dinosaurs. The only living members of the clade Dinosauria, dinosaurs, are avians (birds). They might survive the next mass extinction, too, but who knows. Avians are descendants of the theropod group that also gave rise to huge killers like T. Rex
We had an African Gray parrot at a store I managed. The little guy would make phone ringing noises. I swear it sounded like the phone was ringing and I'd pick up and nothing. Then, one day, I hear the phone ringing noise, but the Parrot also "answered" the phone and had a little conversation to himself. I laughed so hard.
â@@OliveWeitzel âAre you stupid? He didn't say at all this bird (the Sterling) is a Parrot. He said he HAD a Parrot. Also...some Parrots DO imitate sounds and human talking.
i will never not be baffled by the fact that birds can mimic human language almost perfectly despite evolving their voice box completely separately from mammals
@@jtischCB I read somewhere that Mozart had a pet starling, and its attempts at imitating music inspired him to write his 'Musical Joke'. Certainly the last cacophonous chords of that composition sound rather like a starling squawking...
@@franko8572 I think itâs just that the texture of the feathers make it super prominent when they fluff up. As an example, you can see a similar thing with ravens when they mimic speech but not really with crows. Ravens have fluffier coats whereas crows have smooth coats so itâs more prominent. Starlings have spiky little feathers so this dude looks like his neck is made of ferrofluid.
Why? Humans are just hairless apes and we talk nonstop. Clearly speech is something that's evolved in multiple lineages. Even if its the most complex in ours
@@frankrosemeck9898 đ seriously?! I think You may have Your real enemies mixed up here. Crappy childhood or something. Place Your anger where it belongs,and start healingâŁ
No, their a invasive pest that takes over local birds nests and parasites their eggs. Just because they "sound pretty" doesn't mean they arnt a absolute menace to other wildlife and destroy ecosystems where they do not even belong.
@@tehfuqizg0inon588 of course they are. I thought maybe someone put the audio over it DUH People fake videos ALL THE TIME DUH DURRRKA DURRRRR DEEE DA DEEEEE
â@@triggerhappydad65 What about witch craft? The bird could be a witches familiar and hence why it talks. Oh hang on, we stopped believing in that kind of stuff a long time ago (or at least sensible folk did). Let's just go with "isn't the bird cool".
ââ@@TheSd1ckolind faith is incorrect, people have gone through experiences that's why they believe in witches etc, and let's continue talking about the cool bird now âș
â@@idiotentalk346I hope one day you get to meet a mimicking bird and have your mind blown. Many different birds can replicate r2d2, it's a very common sound to have birds learn
No doubt! I wish this was reddit, because there's inevitably be some person who specialized in studying starlings for a decade to explain, in detail and typically some hilarious wordplay, exactly how and why they do it.
The syrinx (from the Greek word "ÏÏÏÎčÎłÎŸ" for pan pipes) is the vocal organ of birds. Located at the base of a bird's trachea, it produces sounds without the vocal folds of mammals.[1] The sound is produced by vibrations of some or all of the membrana tympaniformis (the walls of the syrinx) and the pessulus, caused by air flowing through the syrinx. This sets up a self-oscillating system that modulates the airflow creating the sound. The muscles modulate the sound shape by changing the tension of the membranes and the bronchial openings.[2] The syrinx enables some species of birds (such as parrots, crows, and mynas) to mimic human speech.
@@jpj7087 Not trying to be that person, but imitating sounds (and then giving them meaning) is how words and languages were formed. Some animals do know the meaning of certain words when taught, and these birds are incredibly intelligent.
My grandmother hated starlings. I, a zoologist, love starlings and know how remarkably bright and capable they are. Their behavior is ingenious among birds! Study them awhile and you'll understand.
WHAT AMAZES THE FRICK OUTTA ME, IS HOW IT CAN NOT ONLY IMMITATE SOUND FREQUENCY, BUT ALSO, ROUGH SOUNDS SUCH AS METAL, CHAINSAW, HITTING OF SOLID SURFACES, IPHONE SHUTTER SOUND EFFECT AND SO MUCH MORE đ¶đ¶đ¶đ¶đ¶đ¶
I live in a town full of magpies and often going for walks is terrifying when you hear various alarm sounds echoing from the trees or the sounds of idling cars in the airđ
Oh yes they are very good they can mimic anything there's been known to colonies out in the wilderness to mimic just about anything they hear and they don't have to be taught it really well either like they hear it a couple times and they learn it most birds that talk they don't talk and do stuff out in the wilderness but the starlings they do they learn from people they hear them and they learn to speak Ravens or just as good to they are really good at on talking starlings are the best
The starlings on the farm I work at sometimes whistle exactly like we do when we whistle to the cows. They often fool me thinking I hear a colleague I'm looking for. It's uncanny how similar they sound to the real whistles.
@@erwinj9697I wonder how many creepy situations in the woods and whatnot can be explained away by these birds just mimicking things and making people think thereâs someone stalking them.
Imagine sitting under a tree and suddenly hearing what sounds like a flock of R2D2's overhead.
Have you ever seen a load of starlings flying together? It's worth looking up if you haven't, it's mesmerising, imagine them doing that while all sounding like R2D2 đ€Ł
I heard starlings songs. They mimic city sounds, frogs and jackdaws. It's a pretty exotic sounds without R2D2 already I must say đ
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The grackles in Austin have already incorporated car alarms into their vocabulary.
"THE FLAT EARTHERS WERE RIGHT! BIRDS AREN'T REAL!"
the fact that the bird didn't fully mimic the whistle but still stayed in key and with a fitting rhythm is amazing
For complex things they always sound like a battery powered AM radio to me.
Yes, it was actually a response that evolved the theme! I loved that too â€
He improving
Yh it's like they sing for living đ
â@@Amaend8 you've got a point there mate, though I don't think they're usually singing with intentions of creating new melodies
That R2-D2 was insane!!!
This is just absolutely mind blowing!
The R2D2 mimic is like something straight out of a high-end electronic synthesizer! Incredible!
You mean âmovieâ. đ
@@rietzhu they get the sounds in the movie with foley and other sound designers/musicians
R2D2 comes from the high end synthesizer of 70's, the ARP2600.
R2D2's sound was made by a person speaking actual words into a mic and through a synthesizer, so yeah, pretty darn close!
In the future, we will have organic synthesizers, made of genetically engineered bio-mechanical horrors.
That R2-D2 noise was scary accurate and sounded technical
Almost a little creepy!
and this bird knows why i love dubstep so much or it definitely wouldâve wanted to learn the easier tune way ahead of time
Birds arenât real đ đ
@@fitz2523 everyone knows birds are government spy devices lol
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Sounds like the bird had a mf playback recorder in his throat. Thatâs incredible
And now for something completely different. A bird with a tape recorder up its nose.
@đ Basically imagine having two sets of lips but in your throat.
Thatâs exactly what I said.
More like creepy
â@Embassy_of_Jupitershadow banned?
Makes me wonder how many times throughout history did people think there was someone stalking them in the woods but really it was just a little bird mimicking them đ
Right?? I would have immediately thought CRYPTID
this happened to my grandpa in ww2, a bird was yelling "Hey sailor!" and he thought it was a person at first
I'm sure most stories about "finding a creature in the woods" were caused by these mimicking birds
I did not know that Starlings were able to speak like that. So clear and procise!đź
A few years back I heard what sounded like a bird convention in the tree outside my window. There was a wide range of different bird calls and what randomly sounded like a childs screams. When I looked outside, it was single starling.
@@TehKitteh01 That's wild!!
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They cant.. they were a gift from UK to USA.. & i swear it was more like sabotage cause theyre an invasive species & the sounds they make are awful..
Starlings arrange themselves in MASSIVE flocks⊠imagine they all just say âwhoâs my precious Jabby bird?â in an uncanny human voice
Hahaha đ€Łđ€Ł I'd be running
It's called a murmuration and is quite beautiful! đ
I can't stop laughing đ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł
â@@sarahcoletti6946 no, a murmuration is when giant flocks of Starlings FLY as a flock. It has nothing to do with them talking, and is NOT simply them gathering
â@@sarahcoletti6946 but you're right that murmurations are STUNNING
Growing up, we had a pet starling. She mimicked the AOL dial up sounds, rang like the phone, answered it and carried on her own conversation like she was talking on the phone.
This sounds hilarious. I want one nowđ„ș
@Jasmine Bischof We found her out of her nest and she had a long life. This video is the first I've seen of someone else having one as a pet. You will get big personality in a small bird, that's for sure.
No! you put the phone down first...!
No! you put the phone down first...!
No! you put the phone down first...!
No! you put the phone down first...!
Guessing there's no video of this?
@Fastertrack Wishing there was, now. Never realizing in 1999 that the AOL dial-up sounds would become merely ancient tales of the prehistoric days before smart phones and tik tok đ€Šââïžđ
My mind has been legitimately blown. This is insane!
its very polite of the bird to help the human learn new sentences
It was nice of that bird to teach that lady how to talk
Lol good one
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Lol haha
LOL!
We can agree it would be terrifying to just be walking in the forest one day and you hear, "I'm gonna give him a kiss"
Not as much as hearing "My sweet turd bird"!
Or "my precious" like gollum
â@@Seriouslydave smeegs...yuck đŹ
Or R2-D2 sounds
Omg, now I have that stuck in my head, how could you!
I had no idea starlings could âtalkâ! This little guy is super smart!đ€©đ
What a talented bird! Not only does he duplicate the words, but it even sounds like her voice. And the R2D2 -- FANTASTIC!
Plot twist. There were 2 birds talking with each other, and she just stood there
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even sillier plot twist, she IS a bird with big human glove on
@@only-renThatâs really just terrifying
Keep him nearby in case telemarketers call.
LOL!!!!!
Bad scammers would be a good one immitating the police talking or something like that! Talking to them like Arnold swartenhager on terminator.
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Ya, teach it to say ,I have a gun and I know how to use it, so beware, stay off my property. lol
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Unreal. The R2D2 is amazing. Animals are so amazing. People really don't give them the credit they should get.
It's all fun and jokes till you hear who's my precious at 3amđ
I still can't comprehend how a bird can accurately pronounce words and mimic sound effects so perfectly without having any lips. Mind still blown till this day!
Vocal cords are more relevant. Lips are just a part of it and only applicable to specific languages...?
Think about how a human can whistle a birds tune using our lips. The birds have parts inside that do the job of our lips.
Birds have parts in their throats that basically do the same stuff as teeth, a tongue, and lips.
Yup, and birds have two larynxes, one atop each lung. They can sing two notes at once!
its not so much lip as it is tongue. Ive found that the more dexterous the tongue is, the better your accent can be when speaking different languages. I can whistle at 122db just using my tongue. its not just people either, birds have incredible tongues as well as they can shape the sound that comes out any way they want.
The r2d2 thing is unbelievable.
Maybe itâs fake
@@OpiatesAndTits I donât know. The sounds match really well with its movements of the throat and beak.
@@OpiatesAndTits R2D2 already sounds bird like, and birds are able to mimic sounds they hear after a while to use as calls for mates, or communication, some wild birds were known to mimic construction site noises after hearing it for 2-3 days.
â@@OpiatesAndTits Honey, it's all fake. Life is an illusion. All matter is gravity between non-particles of dark energy. Nothing really matters.
@@ibeetellingya5683 If nothing matters, then why was it so important to you to make this comment? People act nihilist to seem woke and gain clout, and it's just weird.
Wow so wholesome seeing the Starling teach his owner how to talk
When I was growing up, I used to try to talk to my dad about how animals could talk, but he would always brush it off as theyâre just manipulating their vocal cords to mimic us.
But arenât we doing the same thing when we learn how to talk? It doesnât matter HOW they are doing it.
Theyâre DOING IT.
They are talking and it is incredible!
The only difference is that our sounds have a commonly understood meaning. It is unlikely that birds share the understanding for sounds they mimic.
That being said, it is very clear that many animals, other than humans, clearly understand the meaning of their and our sounds. Both in domesticated and wild animals. We, on the other hand, understand very little of their verbal language. Kind of backwards, donât you think??
@@ITeachRick true
Check out the dogs and cats using buttons on the floor to communicate. The CZcams channel "What About Bunny" is a fascinating example. Amazing stuff, particularly when they come up with their own creative ways to use the words they have available for more complicated concepts or events. And if you're familiar with the self-awareness mirror test... Try watching a dog realizing that she recognizes _someone else_ in a mirror, and then describing that experience!
It's amazing how this skilled bird is able to teach this human to mimic it. Absolutely brilliant.
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What if this bird escapes and some passerby just hears R2-D2 sounds coming from a tree
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Imagine they were on psychedelics
Followed by "gonna give em a kiss"
Then the Empire will destroy that tree.
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This is unreal⊠what an amazing little being đ„° The universe is an artist for sure
That would be God. đ
â@@user-ow1ky5oq7yyep. Was about to say that. Ppl always credit nature or the universe.
Praise the creator, not the creation ;)
@@Pyr0Ben subhanAllah
@@user-ow1ky5oq7y that would be AI that was left to do it
OMG I LOVE the R2-D2 sound!! I am a Star Wars fanatic so I think that is absolutely adorable!!!! đ
Yes, I'm dying laughing from the r2d2 noise.. that was spot on!!đ
My mind canât wrap around the fact that this bird doesnât even have any lips, and still speaks better English than me.
LOL- correction, âbetter English than Iâ đ
@@taladurso Lmao đ
â@@taladurso no, "me" is also correct: english is not your native language?đźđ đ
@extradepresstrial â it's "me" when used as an object and "I" when used as a subject, so "better English than me" is correct đ
your speakers don't have lips either
The R2-D2 part was incredible!
Yea
I wonder how the can make such inhuman sounds, itâs crazy.
â@@Lee-One because spacetime is the constant sympathy of energy waves in reverberation. human and bird are demonstrating newton's cradle
It sure was. He is so cool and amazing too!
I agree, it seems impossible, but this little bird does it flawlessly, including the right speed.
So nice that you're teaching your precious birdie to sing the Queen of the Night's aria. Great tribute to Mozart, who owned a starling and loved birds as well đŠđ
That is a very great tribute indeed!
the skill of the human mimicing the bird is amazing
Everybodyâs gangster until the birds start talking in Latin
OMG I need this now!
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A priest's bird would be funny. Screaming Latin and excorcisms is something I would really like to see a starling bird do at people. Would scare a lot of people.
For the glory of Rome
"Et tu Brute?"
It's amazing that the bird reproduced just part of the whistled melody and finished it in a way that makes musical sense.
He was singing the melody from Queen of the night by Mozart
It's not.
@@Tuubasd ok
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- fer the Byrrds!
Hahahah! She improvised on it! How intelligentđ đđđ„č
I haven't ever looked it up, but i swear, there are birds around here called cow birds, and I've listened to them making sounds like R2D2. I cannot imagine it's something taught to them, but the few that gather at the feeder make those exact sounds. I thought maybe i was going crazy, but I've heard them do it many times at this point. It's so cool! They aren't the "nicest" of friends to other birds, but they do sing pretty.
It sounds like she's speaking into a handheld recorder, and then playing it back. That's so crazy
The more seamless the mimic, the more trust, love and time was put into that birdâs quality of life. Bless this woman too
Wow no shortage of intelligence to think this deeply... đ đ
Please, no pseudoscience, you're just feeding the stereotype that bird people are unhinged đ
@@allrequiredfields for what, caring about their pet?
Absolutely! Know what you mean!
@@allrequiredfieldswhat would be unhinged would be neglecting such an intelligent pet
I love how birds are just innately capable of musical improvisation
Lol itâs kinda wild really
Itâs actually insane. Even such âstandardâ birds as blackbirds are amongst the most versatile birds at least of Europe when in comes to the actual number of different tunes they create and remember.
I had thought that it wasn't able to mimic the aria properly but I wonder if you're on to something! Human speech must be as difficult if not more to imitate for birds than a song, so I wonder if the bird was really consciously improvising. Would be fascinating if so.
@@mimi-fk6dp I recognised the aria from Marriage of Figaro (Queen of the Night) by Mozart being 'whistled'.
@@peterwillson878 itâs from magic flute lol but yes
I am so blown away! I had no idea starlings could imitate sounds and use them at random!
The first person to ever hear a bird mimic human speech probably went insane
My brain broke when he made the R2-D2 noises! Thatâs incredible!
The birds brain broke too, that's why he had to reboot. đ
@@garderork339 ahem... you mean... re-bird! ... i'll just see my way out now then
That r2-d2 impression is so good, Disney is going to sue that bird with copyright infringement. đđđđ
I can imagine this sweet jabby bird on the stand đ
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There was a lyrebird video that Disney actually sent the poster of video a cease and desist for mimicking Star Wars sounds!
What's Disney got to do, with 'Star Wars'??? That IS NOT, a dumb Disney production!!!
Yea, the R2D2 impression blew me away ngl.
I completely LOST it at the R2-D2 robot whistle sound mimicry!!! It's amazing how they remember whole phrases and tunes too, while not jumbling everything together to just produce sound salad. They actually mimic sounds intelligently.
They are truly STUNNING birds!!!
I had NO IDEA Starlings have this kind of capabilities. My goodness, I'm absolutely floored! Simply magnificent
it's like you stole my words!!
I thought the same đ!
so true
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Same!
Lyrebirds are also great at mimicry,
there's a video on YT of a lyrebird mimicking a camera with a shutter and a chainsaw!
They can mimick almost any sound... Animals, cars, horns, drills, etc.
They're such a phenomenon.
this bird has more proper english speaking skills than most humans i know.
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Haha h lol for real right
Just the fact that they remember these chains of sound almost flawlessly, let alone reproduce them, is amazing
Unglaublich , die Natur ist so Wunderbar! đ„°đź
Plot twist: The bird was the one who taught her to speak
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I think they do more than mimic. Starlings are very intelligent.
Haha!
I need the rest if this story..
Yes that human is learning well đ
F*ck your plot twist
I once saw a parrot, he then looked me dead in the eye and said âf*ck youâ. Iâve never felt so hurt in my life
Sorry, but this made me laugh
Iâd feel bad too if it was me
But it is funny
â€â€LMFAO!!!â€â€â€đđđ THAT'S FUNNY! SORRY.đ
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@@Islandtime23 itâs ok. I laugh whenever I remember
Omg same my friends parrot only knew fuck you and bitch and it would hurt a lil everytime
That voice mimicry is insane human speech is incredibly complex, and for it to be able to record those lines like that is insane.
I am constantly amazed on how some birds can mimic sounds.
It's crazy that the voice kinda sounds like an old recording or a landline telephone
And then the perfect R2D2 happens. It's COMPLETELY on-point.
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@@lostpockets2227 Now this is a reply I can get behind
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"Birds are not government drones"
The birds in question:
Ya beat me to it đ
#BirdsArentReal
Birds arenât real! đ
this is do to an organ called the serynx witch unlike mammals larynx is at the start of the connection of the two lungs witch allows them to produce many complex calls even without lips the serynx or lack thereof is also why large therapod Dinosaurs likely couldn't roar
also if you find yourself wondering whether birds are govorment drones or not you can almost always catch one and when you do you just need to grab the wings and slowly start to
T W I S T ignore the crunching and blood curtailing screems because that could just be programed what you really need to pay attention to is the very prominent blood muscle and bone witch can be easily found by simply
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â@@laulau5356someone told me that before and then said the moon was fake and those are not falling stars.
This is amazing. This had me smiling and impressed this whole short video. This little starling is very talented with it's sounds.đđđ
Amazing God certainly has Blessed you with him.
The R2D2 was incredibly spot on
All starlings make that sound - the r2d2 sound is literally the sound of a wild starling.
â@@forg0ttenreally? I did not know that.
@@DemoNinja79No itâs not like that lol. This bird is impersonating R2D2. If they always sounded like that, people would notice lol
@@Jet_Threat Well I'm glad then. That was amazing.
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"Who's my precious..." *What was it again? Nevermind I'm doing the R2D2 instead* đ
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Well anyway this is Wonderwall
Me with my ADHD when I'm reincarnated as a bird
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Not only did this bird just "mimic" almost everything it's heard, it even displayed a comprehension of music theory and improvised a variation that was on scale and perfectly in-tune. I'm freaking amazed!
....all while using a brain the size of a tiny marble
yea I wondered if he could remember the whole tune but he improvised and sang the arpeggio of the right chord instead at the end.. almost more impressive!
You do know this video is fake right? Without lips it's speaking very normally and not throaty like normal birds
@@dwylie83 Sorry, but I would need harder evidence than just your word to accuse someone of doing something like that.
I know that it's possible, but I just don't believe that to be the case here.
@@jmarino715 go Google birds talking and you can hear the difference the sound comes from their throat and isn't perfect bc you need lips for perfect speech not only is this thing mimicking her words perfectly it's also doing her voice flawlessly. Work on your critical thinking skills
That is amazing. I didnât know about this miracle.
It mimics EXACTLY how she sounds
Okay the R2D2 thing is literally remarkable. This is more talented than any parot I've seen. I'm shocked!
I agree
Fr, parrots are overrated and annoying
â@@sir_john_hammond Annoying definitely not. But indeed overrated. There are plenty of other birds out there that are just as fascinating.
â@@sir_john_hammond they're not that annoying.
they just pretty silly and always need our attention.
Yep, the R2-D2 thing blew me away!! Awesome!!
When I found out starlings could talk in the 1990s I was doing volunteer work for a woman who rescued birds and she had a lot of them in cages rehabilitating them. When I was passing its cage to go outside it said hey beautiful! It really made my day đ
I hope this was in Europe?
@@Hemigoblin Blacksburg VA I saw some in FL imitating car alarms too and in Dallas so many would fill certain trees while chattering loudly. Then fly off as a black cloud somewhere else.
@@annegaynor9627 Okay. Anyone who is ârehabilitatingâ starlings in the US is misguided. I donât fault the birds themselves, but they are horribly invasive here. They kill native species, especially songbirds, and theyâre especially bad in urban environments and on farms.
I hate being the bringer of bad news, but the best thing anyone can do with starlings in the US is to humanely euthanized them.
Omg, my heart would just be full forever if a bird ever called me beautiful in passing!! đđ
Their invasive and quite destructive to local us bird populations...
The bird IS talking. It just isn't carrying on a conversation.
Starlings are accomplished mimics. They pick up sounds from other starlings and song birds but also from people and inanimate objects,â he explained. Their vocalizations include whistles, whizzes, rattles and pops. But it's the barks, child squeals, frog rib-bits and car horns that stump humans the most.
I remember the TV series "The World after people" saying that these types of birds will be the last remnants of live human speech on the planet because they teach this to their children.
The same goes for Lyre birds
That's... bizarre
oh yeah you just brought me back! called Life After People (in USA)
Fun fact, birds are the survivors of the mass extinction that killed (most of) the dinosaurs. The only living members of the clade Dinosauria, dinosaurs, are avians (birds).
They might survive the next mass extinction, too, but who knows.
Avians are descendants of the theropod group that also gave rise to huge killers like T. Rex
I've yet to hear one of these make human noise where I'm at! Wish they would, they're everywhere lol
We had an African Gray parrot at a store I managed. The little guy would make phone ringing noises. I swear it sounded like the phone was ringing and I'd pick up and nothing. Then, one day, I hear the phone ringing noise, but the Parrot also "answered" the phone and had a little conversation to himself. I laughed so hard.
Dude that is hilarious!!!!!!
This is NOT a parrot! These birds do NOT SPEAK!
That's so fricking hilarious. A bird with a snarky sense of humor, too!
â@@OliveWeitzel âAre you stupid? He didn't say at all this bird (the Sterling) is a Parrot.
He said he HAD a Parrot.
Also...some Parrots DO imitate sounds and human talking.
â@@OliveWeitzel Ok but...he's talking about HIS parrot
That R2D2 impression was mind blowing!
i will never not be baffled by the fact that birds can mimic human language almost perfectly despite evolving their voice box completely separately from mammals
Birds are terrifyingly fascinating creatures and we don't give them enough credit omg
Dinosaurs who survived 65M years ago had to be smaller but also more cunning than their bigger homologues.
I know,,we have taken them for granted and not me,,not anymore.â€â€
The truth is we donât give the Creator of this incredible creature enough credit
exactly..
Lol I'm amazed and creepped out at the same time
That bird just stopped halfway in its thought to sing a portion of âDer Holle Racheâ from the magic flute. Incredible.
Nothing like a bird that can imitate a human whistling Mozart!! I'm astonished.
@@jtischCB I read somewhere that Mozart had a pet starling, and its attempts at imitating music inspired him to write his 'Musical Joke'. Certainly the last cacophonous chords of that composition sound rather like a starling squawking...
Not just mimic, but seemingly improv off the melody?
@@clickpause8732 Copied the first couple of bars, then performed a variation on the following arpeggio.
@@Suctex Suc what?
What a beautiful creature. And some people are still asking if Nature is intelligent?!?
DUDE.....that R2 is absolutely amazing đČđ€Żđ
that R2D2 was outstanding
I was at work and I almost screamed haha it was nuts
â@@alecdorval THAT IS SO INSANE! IT SOUNDS JUST LIKE R2-D2! đ€Żđ€Żđ€Ż
I love how his neck feathers move when he makes a noise.
Oh, is that whatâs going on down there? I thought he had another mouth down there or something that he was talking out of.
@@franko8572 I think itâs just that the texture of the feathers make it super prominent when they fluff up.
As an example, you can see a similar thing with ravens when they mimic speech but not really with crows. Ravens have fluffier coats whereas crows have smooth coats so itâs more prominent. Starlings have spiky little feathers so this dude looks like his neck is made of ferrofluid.
Exactly right makes it more real so we know for sure the birds doing itâs incredible
â@@jeremyluke8022 Their programming is impeccable!
Itâs the same for us except we shape our mouths and tongues to create different sounds đđŒ
Proof birbs are drones
i love how the bird's chin expand when mimicing the sound â€
I think it's absolutely nuts that an animal can mimic and "talk " when you think about it
Why? Humans are just hairless apes and we talk nonstop. Clearly speech is something that's evolved in multiple lineages. Even if its the most complex in ours
Right out of Howl's moving castle
Starlings are unbelievable,they have endless talents,especially musical/rythm
Starlings are murderous, nuisance pests. They should be killed at every opportunity.
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You've obviously never watched a starling kill an entire family of native woodpeckers and take over their home...
No, their a invasive pest that takes over local birds nests and parasites their eggs. Just because they "sound pretty" doesn't mean they arnt a absolute menace to other wildlife and destroy ecosystems where they do not even belong.
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I like how the feathers moves as she âspeaksâ.
Aww, sweet little terrifying creature
This bird is a better sound engineer than I could ever be đ
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We have 3 starlings that we've rescued and they are such twerps when they know treats are involved. And their mimicry is always so fun to hear.
So this is real?
â@@songsthatarecatchy no, birds aren't real. Duh
@@tehfuqizg0inon588 of course they are. I thought maybe someone put the audio over it DUH
People fake videos ALL THE TIME
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@@songsthatarecatchy Oh yeah it's real. Ours can mimic basic phrases like "How are you? Whatcha doing?" And they are very good at sound effects.
I never knew starlings could do that,very interesting and cute
This right here is why people think birds are robots
Not only is the mimicry flawless, the neck feathers work as a visualizer.
Ain't God cool!?
â@@triggerhappydad65 What about witch craft? The bird could be a witches familiar and hence why it talks. Oh hang on, we stopped believing in that kind of stuff a long time ago (or at least sensible folk did).
Let's just go with "isn't the bird cool".
â@@TheSd1cko You are into some intense drug, and I want some of what you taking.
ââ@@TheSd1ckolind faith is incorrect, people have gone through experiences that's why they believe in witches etc, and let's continue talking about the cool bird now âș
@@triggerhappydad65 nah.
The R2D2 is just INCREDIBLE. Especially how it was not encouraged. The bird was just like âSay that again?! Naw check this out.â
Itâs obviously fake wtf
@@idiotentalk346 damn, I didnât know
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It's real lmao
â@@idiotentalk346I hope one day you get to meet a mimicking bird and have your mind blown. Many different birds can replicate r2d2, it's a very common sound to have birds learn
â@@idiotentalk346Oh yeah obviously thats why parrots and other birds do it smh
Okay, the R2D2 mimicry was unbelievable!! đł
That bird is awesome đ
The craziest thing to me is how they can mimic our language without lips, and i SCREAMED at the R2D2
No doubt! I wish this was reddit, because there's inevitably be some person who specialized in studying starlings for a decade to explain, in detail and typically some hilarious wordplay, exactly how and why they do it.
They're mimicking sounds...not language...
Sure, but a lot of the sounds in our language are very difficult to make without lips
The syrinx (from the Greek word "ÏÏÏÎčÎłÎŸ" for pan pipes) is the vocal organ of birds. Located at the base of a bird's trachea, it produces sounds without the vocal folds of mammals.[1] The sound is produced by vibrations of some or all of the membrana tympaniformis (the walls of the syrinx) and the pessulus, caused by air flowing through the syrinx. This sets up a self-oscillating system that modulates the airflow creating the sound. The muscles modulate the sound shape by changing the tension of the membranes and the bronchial openings.[2] The syrinx enables some species of birds (such as parrots, crows, and mynas) to mimic human speech.
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He didn't just imitate her words but her voice as well. Absolutely fascinating
i mean they dont know what words are, they only imitate sounds
@@jpj7087 Not trying to be that person, but imitating sounds (and then giving them meaning) is how words and languages were formed. Some animals do know the meaning of certain words when taught, and these birds are incredibly intelligent.
Wow! Didnât know Starlings could do that!!
My grandmother hated starlings. I, a zoologist, love starlings and know how remarkably bright and capable they are. Their behavior is ingenious among birds! Study them awhile and you'll understand.
WHAT AMAZES THE FRICK OUTTA ME, IS HOW IT CAN NOT ONLY IMMITATE SOUND FREQUENCY, BUT ALSO, ROUGH SOUNDS SUCH AS METAL, CHAINSAW, HITTING OF SOLID SURFACES, IPHONE SHUTTER SOUND EFFECT AND SO MUCH MORE đ¶đ¶đ¶đ¶đ¶đ¶
me, when it's nice out: "man, the birds are realllly going at it out there."
birds going at it out there: *one single starling trying to get laid*
I live in a town full of magpies and often going for walks is terrifying when you hear various alarm sounds echoing from the trees or the sounds of idling cars in the airđ
That's a lyrebird that BBC featured making those sounds, but just as impressive!
AND MOZART let's not ignore that.
THE ULTIMATE VOICE ACTOR
First time I hear a starling talk! I never knew they could mimic...just mind blowing!
Oh yes they are very good they can mimic anything there's been known to colonies out in the wilderness to mimic just about anything they hear and they don't have to be taught it really well either like they hear it a couple times and they learn it most birds that talk they don't talk and do stuff out in the wilderness but the starlings they do they learn from people they hear them and they learn to speak Ravens or just as good to they are really good at on talking starlings are the best
@@kristahathaway9308awesome to have the extra knowledge, thank you!
The accuracy this bird has on it's imitations is horrifying
The fact that some people think these things are real is insane.
Until now, I had no idea that Starlings could mimick sounds so accurately! Such an adorable little burb!
The moment it did R2D2 I lost it
The starlings on the farm I work at sometimes whistle exactly like we do when we whistle to the cows. They often fool me thinking I hear a colleague I'm looking for. It's uncanny how similar they sound to the real whistles.
@@erwinj9697I wonder how many creepy situations in the woods and whatnot can be explained away by these birds just mimicking things and making people think thereâs someone stalking them.
it's "bird" you dummy smdh
They're related to crows and ravens, who are also mimics :)
He's adorable, I didn't realise that starlings will mimic voices. That R2D2 was really precious
Birds are really smart!!
Sorry but what's a R2-D2?
â@@lelouchlibritannia3771 Robot from Star Wars movies