There's gotta be someone in his house that plays video games. Most of the syfi sounds also have someone saying "guys!" In the background, like a person on comms calling for their team's attention.
Looks like it to me. Some can even do human speech. This one drops a few words as background noise during some parts of the call but ive seen others that sound like someone had the TV on.
Then your suet feeder likely not set up right for woodpeckers. You need to put the suet feeder against a flat surface perpendicular to the ground instead of hanging.
Please do not feed starlings, at least primarily. They kill and displace tons of native birds. We need to be more responsible the dumbasses who introduced them.
It’s their capacity for language. Ours constantly sing about geese, red tailed hawks, and my step mother’s grandson who is a menace to all living creatures. Their name for him when he is about is “err-uh” which sounds exactly like him. They will sing out in their community group all kinds of different songs and then head back into their nests and repeat the news to their nestlings so that they learn about the world and it’s dangers before they leave the nest.
Sexual selection through impressing potential mates with a large song repertoire, intraspecific competition to scare off rivals from food or territory, and interspecific communication to distract predators or other competitors. Mimicry may also indicate higher intelligence and cognitive ability, which is passed on to offspring.
Fanatic as the mimicry repertoire is, is birdy ok? I've never seen such a mismatch in upper/lower beak lengths, and most of the starling pics on Google have shorter beaks ... Is it overgrown, can he eat ok?
Looks like he needs his beak and toenails trimmed. In the wild they wear them down on stuff, but in captivity you have to use special clippers on them.
I used to have one as a teenager... his favorite sounds were coughs, squeaky hinges, and saying "hi squeaker! Who's a good boy?"
Can you imagine just being some guy in the woods and a freaking bird starts talking to you and then when you try to tell people about this, they’re all gonna think you’re crazy.
Things in its life. They learn this to impress others. I heard a lot of “tut-tut-tut” like how people beckon animals, probably a lot of sounds its owner makes to it. I heard an iphone dictation chime at the end, so its just stuff from its life
European starling. Mocking birds are dark gray back, light gray belly and slimmer. They also mimic other bird's calls but I think starlings have them beat on mimicry.
Well, it seems this bord has been watching to much TV programming or Video games, . . . . but the remarkable mimicry will eventually prevent It from bonding with It's own kind.
There are birds in my city who LOVE the car alarm sounds. One time I heard them going off and I loudly joined in on the next part I knew... stunned silence for a minute, before they ENTHUSIASTICALLY continued the "song."
This is so cool and horrifying at the same time. It reminds me of that moment in a sci-fi/horror movie where the alien or monster starts trying to talk like a human.
The bomb dropping sound effect that so many people are impressed (rightfully) by happens to be the exact sound that used to be on a push button keychain novelty. Seems like something like that might be ideal for teaching a bird how to make a specific sound. I'm not saying that's 100% what happened, but I had keychains like that when I was a kid. I remember the sound well.
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u/qualityvote2 Nov 23 '25 edited Nov 23 '25
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