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It can do a pretty good camera and chainsaw as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y
Put him in front of the radio before you go to bed and you got yourself a shoulder fired ipod for the next day, at least untill the riaa catches up with you and then your bird is cooked.
In the forest they’ll mimic chainsaws, bulldozers, rifle shots, hand axes, motor bikes or anything else that comes near 🙂
They also imitate cries for help and lure hikers to their doom. True story.
Those are the most unmusical birds I have ever heard. I prefer Beethoven’s wood-wren and Mozart’s starling. See http://pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/0304/01.html at 3:30 minutes to 5:00 minutes.
Actually this thing imitated a lot of animal sounds including the human voice. It did electric hedge clippers, saws, hammering, lawn mower, electric drill, and I lost count.
I saw one in China that imitated honking cars, which I thought was really funny. But this one…!
Not to pick nits, but that’s not a jackhammer, it’s a masonry drill in hammer mode. The birds in Lake Havasu make noises like automotive belts slipping, engines starting, and car alarms. No doubt these sounds will be carried on long after we’re gone.
Very cool!
sound more like he was near a construction site. no jackhammer, but a saws, drills, hammering, workers whistling, seems to be in his repertoire.
That’s my local zoo!
It was not a pneumatic jackhammer, but I have heard electric ones that sound pretty damn close to the bird.
Yeah!
Give me some good stock footage of a Robin in your back yard and in no time I can make him sound like an intersection in downtown New York.
Not that I want to be cynical but it just seems hokey to me.
Yeah!
Give me some good stock footage of a Robin in your back yard and in no time I can make him sound like an intersection in downtown New York.
Not that I want to be cynical but it just seems hokey and unbelievable to me.
10 min later…
OK, I saw what Wikipedia says but who can trust it? Then I saw David Attenborough legitimize it. He wouldn’t lie would he?
John, this is what you do with your spare time? lol
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Actually, many of the birds in teh city mimic car alarms.
A friend of mine kept a bird (parrot?) by a squeaky sliding glass door. The bird learned to make that sound.
So, about a hundred times a day, it sounded like some one was entering the house!
Wait! I recognized the workers whistle..I think it is a shame the bird had to learn one of the most annoying sounds of all time, instead of nice natural sounding sounds..just saying.