Re: [Maine-birds] Bilingual mockingbird

While not mockingbird or even wild bird related for that matter, I have a Green-Cheeked Conure at home.  He would get lonely sometimes when I was at work so I got him a "pet" canary, a female who doesn't sing but makes a few calls which my conure imitates.  

Its amazing how well, that I cannot tell which bird is calling, except that in general the Conure is louder.  

The amazing part is how it only took him a week or so to learn the call and the Canary doesn't make that noise very often.  

Chuck

Sent from my iPhone... So please forgive typographical errors, message brevity and any strange word choices my phone decides were better than what I actually typed.

On Oct 15, 2013, at 8:40 AM, "Glenn Jenks" <gjenks@midcoast.com> wrote:

While hiking a trail at DeSoto State Park near St. Petersburg, FL one drizzly April afternoon, I came to an abandoned parking lot near the fishing pier. There was no sign of activity due to the weather. My attention was hijacked by the sound of a car alarm, you know, the really annoying one that goes wheah wheah wheah wheah…! I looked everywhere for the auto that was making the sound, until I found the mockingbird who had dutifully learned it, perfectly!

Glenn

 

From: maine-birds@googlegroups.com [mailto:maine-birds@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of R&W Sumner
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 8:16 AM
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Subject: Re: [Maine-birds] Bilingual mockingbird

 

Long ago and far away a friend and I had a similar experience.  We were in a riparian area out west when we heard the distinct call of a Steller's Jay.  We thought it odd, since it was completely out of habitat, and not even near their typical habitat.  We searched until we found it:  a Yellow-breasted Chat giving a perfect rendition of Steller's Jay.  It only underscores the caution which must exercised when birding by ear.

Wally S.

On 10/15/2013 7:11 AM, Joel and Sandy Wilcox-Fairbanks wrote:

This reminds me of something that happened in south FL. A person was birding in Everglades NP when she heard the unmistakable call of a Black Rail. She of course dropped everything and followed the sound, only to find that it was being made by a Blue Jay. Too bad there was no way to find out where that Blue Jay had learned the call.

 

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 6:08 AM, Susan Guare <susanguare@gmail.com> wrote:

My family went to Roger Williams zoo in Providence, Rhode Island this weekend.  They have a small aviary which houses two kookaburras, which dive-bombed us and then laughed about it in their tree.  When we exited, I heard a strange-yet-somewhat familiar song in a nearby tree.  It was a Northern Mockingbird working on its Kookaburra accent. 

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