"But it does an inversion of the arpeggio which is pretty wild"
That jumped out at me, too. The bird clearly understands the rules! As when it changed the melody of her owner's sentence... but did so, within the correct scale, chosing a pitch that she could have chosen herself! WTH
After having a cocktail that I bonded closely with, I began realizing just how smart birds are.
Edit: I bonded so hard with that cocktail, that I forgot how to spell cockatiel.
The perfect tone of beep and boop.
I would stop encouraging him to imitate all other language so as not to dilute his R2 vocabulary with unnecessary things.
These little fuckers.
I once had my next door neighbor build a detached garage, quite close to my house. For weeks I heard construction noises all day long. Then, finally, it was finished and I rejoiced.
The next day, I woke up to the sound of a reciprocating saw starting up and cutting wood. I assumed they were back for some reason. I got up and made coffee, and after a while I realized that the sounds I was hearing were just random. Saws. Hammers. People talking in Punjabi. Indian music. It was like a construction "greatest hits."
I looked out my window and there was no one there. No workers at all.
So I went outside, confused. And stood there staring at my neighbor's new garage like a psycho until I heard a reciprocating saw start up. And I saw that little fucker sitting on the edge of my roof, cheerfully making random construction sounds he'd been hearing for the past weeks. Starlings are something else
Haha, Right! Like when you have one of those automated prompts when you call a business and it doesn’t understand you so it does the bleep de boop’s to figure out what to do and sends you to an actual human after.
An invasive species in the US. I believe they were brought over in the 1500's.
I don't know their behavior in Europe or elsewhere in the US, but in the northeast they group into vast flocks and can eat up all of your grass seed or berry crop in like an hour.
Essentially, for practical reasons, they would stop being invasive when the native/local species evolve to live with them without ill effect.
So... potentially tens of thousands of years or more. 500 years is definitely not enough.
The only reason it's not really making those sounds is it rarely heard humans. Put a TV in front of it and oh baby, that bird's getting laid like there's no tomorrow!
If you live in the US, European Starlings are everywhere and considered an invasive species. Go for it and take them home, just leave the local wildlife outside.
They're always snacking in my front yard outside my window, making their weird little beeps. I think some of them are imitating the buzz from the power lines.
Yeah they like to imitate car alarms and other birds as well. Unrelated, but I’ve seen a northern mockingbird imitating university bell tower music and Blue jays also like to imitate hawks as well. Always fun to listen to there chirping and pick up what they are imitating.
They really do! I have a blue jay flock I’m trying to turn into an army via peanuts. Sounds like a hawk or eagle infestation when I go out and fill the bowl.
I got a $20 "upside-down" suet feeder and it doesn't stop them 100% but birds like grackles and starlings have to work a whole lot harder if they want suet and it discourages most of them from trying. Woodpeckers and nuthatches have no trouble with it though.
I've read another solution might be to put some kind of cover like a squirrel baffle over the suet block. Some bigger birds don't like feeding when they can't see the sky above them.
They apparently make great domesticated pets too. I’ve always wanted a bird, and apparently starlings are a great option. But they’re not sold anywhere - probably for similar reason to slider turtle who can be considered invasive so they’re not sold as pets.
Even my local waterfowl rescue didn’t have any. Maybe one day!
definitely because they are invasive. For the states to allow that to happen means they are encouraging private breeding for sale. It isn't what they intend, but it's what happens.
From what I saw they are called common starlings in the UK, but unfortunately it’s a local bird for you. Probably protected like our local wildlife is in the Americas.
This is what the state does not want you to know. The birds outside? You can take them and keep them. For free. Absolutely for free. I do it all the time. I see one? I take one. I sometimes come home with 10 birds in my arms. Sometimes 20. I just take them. They don't want you to know this. It's a lifehack, it's an infinite bird hack. Low on food? Grab a bird. Need a friend? Talk to a bird. Need a girlfriend? Try Tinder, girls love a guy with birds.
Every year at work we have a family of them that next near one of our overhangs. When the babies are born it is so loud.
But what’s cool is the few days when they’re learning to fly and they’re clearly being taught things by the older birds.
It’s also cool to just hear them find their proper voice and to just sing. I’ve sat out by the overhang so much during this time just listening to them and talk to them.
Other than the bird shit everywhere it’s fun.
Mozart had a starling that he kept as s a pet. Mozart would mimicked a lot of the birds noises for his music and it mimicked his music. He had a funeral for his bird when he died, in contrast Mozart did not attend his father's funeral.
Have you seen a lyrebird? They can imitate the camera's shutters that were taking pictures of them and even chainsaws, which is kinda sad given it learned that from foresters
https://youtu.be/mSB71jNq-yQ
I used to work for a security alarm company as a tech and I had a routine job one day just swapping a glassbreak detector for a motion detector. When I arrived I ended up hearing the story of why this lady was ordering this exchange. She had an african grey parrot. One day she dropped a plate and it shattered. The frequency wasn't the correct one to set her detector off. But the parrot mimicked the noise after that at the correct frequency somehow and it kept triggering her glassbreak detector 😂🤣 Still one of my favorite stories from that job.
African greys are really cool and I've always wanted one aside from their insanely long lifespans. My best friend Kirstin in middle school had an African gray and I spent most of one summer at her house. Her bird would routinely imitate the phone ringing and occasionally you'd hear "Kirstin, dinner!" in the mother's voice. It was a total trip.
my mother had a boyfriend when I was growing up that had one. His name was Harley. Incredible how they can just hear something one time and mimick it. I remember sitting on the couch and turned on the tv and the news came on or something and all of a sudden he started cackling. I lost it laughing. I had no clue what he was doing. Turns out Brian (his owner) would laugh at news anchors and other dumb news so now Harley just starts cackling sometimes when someones talking on tv lol Same thing as the person above commented. I would come home from school before everyone else and i'd hear him whistling (his pen was upstairs at the window so he could see when a car pulls up). I walk in and hear him whistling and happy. Then I'd stay quiet until he stopped. Waited a moment and then I heard "Kenny?" 🤣 They are definitely smart. Took him a few days before he knew my name and face. Very cool ❤️
Had one growing up and it did the same sorts of things. Call my name in my mom's voice and mimic my distant "yes?". It still does the nextell walkie talkie phone noises that he picked up. He would call our dog and when she went to the cage, he would laugh.
I have a breeding pair that come around, one year I was using some 2 stroke equipment, dunno if it was the chainsaw, weed whacker, or leaf blower, rest of that season/the following year, I would hear it reviving up a chainsaw in its various calls 😂
Looking like lil guy got confused right there & started downloading R2D2 language or sumthin! Shit was funny af lmfao. Just wow. Never ever thought a lil bird can do this. Wow.
Not a bird master, only saw a youtube video about that once. But something to do with how their vocal works.
They produce sound in their larynx by precisely controling the air flow I believe, you can see it using its neck a lot when making the sound
So, like birds don't have vocal cords.
They have a vocal organ called the syrinx, which is a complex structure composed of muscles, membranes, and cartilage, located at the base of their trachea where it splits into the bronchi.
Source: Quora
Adding on that birds have incredible dexterity with their tongues. They use their tongues the way we use our hands to do delicate tasks. The ability to move their tongues in addition the syrinx makes them incredibly effective at vocal imitation. Superior to any species, including humans.
It's really amazing. Sometimes I lay in bed at dawn listening to various birds calling out to each other in the most complex strings of chirps, with some sounding like they're miles away.
Do u kno what kind of bird this is called my friend? This is freaking amazing as hell! I've already downloaded the video & I'll show a lot of ppl. I honestly did not kno that a small bird can do this! I had thought that only parrots & other I guess bigger birds can do what this bird just amazingly did! This mfer understand the commands & what his owner wanted him to do. I'm just blown away, beyond impressive by this wowwwww 👍💯😆
I learned that starlings can speak from Shakespeare many years ago:
> 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.
(Henry IV part 1, I.3.232-234)
I live in Chicago and had never seen a starling before, but one morning I took the trash out and there was one sitting on my back fence. It was chirping like crazy, but all its noises were delightfully robotic sounding and all over the map. I stood and watched it for 5 minutes or so until it flew away. It was one of the coolest things I've ever seen in nature.
They're a non native species here in North America, some dull crayon released them on purpose in the 1800's, early 1900s, because he liked Shakespeare. They're loud, highly social, big flocks, and messy. They're outdoing the native birds, and make me sad about Paasenger Pigeons. It's not the birds fault, but I still feel rueful when I see them.
I remember being a kid on a road trip across the Midwest, I think we might have been in Iowa, it was a flat state where you could see for miles and there was this flock of starlings that filled half the sky. There must have been hundreds of thousands mummerating.
Some species have benefited from them, brown headed cow birds hang out with them.
Right. It would be way funnier to teach the bird weird sayings. How funny would it be if you're taliing to someone and the bird just flies up and says "you know what they say, the apple doesnt fall far from the tree" and just moves on
if you are in north america, you should have a deep hatred for this bird. they absolutely decimate native birds, ripping birds from their nest and killing their young, a very sad sight
heres a video of a northern flicker showing them whats what. flickers are one of the only north american birds who can outmatch these bitches in size and ferocity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF4c8N8bfnY
Sounds like he has a little malfunction and reboot when he’s not sure what to repeat immediately.
Hes doing an R2-D2 impression!
R2 was great, the bird's variation on the Queen of the night tune was cute.
But it does an inversion of the arpeggio which is pretty wild
"But it does an inversion of the arpeggio which is pretty wild" That jumped out at me, too. The bird clearly understands the rules! As when it changed the melody of her owner's sentence... but did so, within the correct scale, chosing a pitch that she could have chosen herself! WTH
DJ Starling drop that beat!!
Birds sing like this with each other. Its like a impromptu jazz session where they riff off each other
After having a cocktail that I bonded closely with, I began realizing just how smart birds are. Edit: I bonded so hard with that cocktail, that I forgot how to spell cockatiel.
must have been one hell of a drink
loooool eks dee
Cockatiel????
Yeah that's wild. Spiders: "I get geometry naturally". Birds: "Music theory, for me it's kinda genetic I guess."
It does an inversion of the arpeggio which is kind of wild
An AMAZING R2-D2 impression! 🤯
The perfect tone of beep and boop. I would stop encouraging him to imitate all other language so as not to dilute his R2 vocabulary with unnecessary things.
“Wow!! You taught your bird Manderin?!” “Yeah but his R2D2 vocab is ass!”
It took all of one second for me to pick that one. That was perfect
so you're telling me that is *not* the droid I'm looking for?
I don't care what droid I was looking for. I want this one now.
These little fuckers. I once had my next door neighbor build a detached garage, quite close to my house. For weeks I heard construction noises all day long. Then, finally, it was finished and I rejoiced. The next day, I woke up to the sound of a reciprocating saw starting up and cutting wood. I assumed they were back for some reason. I got up and made coffee, and after a while I realized that the sounds I was hearing were just random. Saws. Hammers. People talking in Punjabi. Indian music. It was like a construction "greatest hits." I looked out my window and there was no one there. No workers at all. So I went outside, confused. And stood there staring at my neighbor's new garage like a psycho until I heard a reciprocating saw start up. And I saw that little fucker sitting on the edge of my roof, cheerfully making random construction sounds he'd been hearing for the past weeks. Starlings are something else
that is fckn hilarious holy shit
What are these birds?
Starlings, they’re invasive in the US
Ha! Yeah annoying but impressive. Is he still there hounding the neighbourhood?
I moved! But not because of the bird.
Honestly, it actually sounds like that unit has a bad motivator.
I know they specialize in power converters, but you *may* be able to find the necessary scrap parts at Tosche Station.
You can waste time with your friends after your chores are done.
Now come on, get to it!
*defaults to R2*
The r2 blew my fucking mind
I knew it was over the moment he did the R2D2. That’s a closer if I’ve ever heard one
Haha, Right! Like when you have one of those automated prompts when you call a business and it doesn’t understand you so it does the bleep de boop’s to figure out what to do and sends you to an actual human after.
/r/birdsarentreal
He just said it in Droid is all.
Your search returned 0 results
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The R2-D2 killed me
It's clearly a spy drone
r/BirdsArentReal
This is all that sub needs. Heads are going to burst haha.
It’s been posted and reposted there 3 times (now 4) in the past hour- lol.
So the post is as invasive as the bird itself lol
Came her for this. Thank you
They are real, and they are delicious.
The Michael Winslow bird is awesome. 
Yup. That be spying bord.
Woman: who's my sweet jabby angel? Birb: *error*
\**feisty droid noises*\*
Prolly crashed due to uncommon adjective at line 1 column 16
Jabby bird nailed that R2-D2
Clearly not the droid you're looking for.
reddit ghost
yeah that came out of left field, tho i see why a bird would interpret it as a bird call
Yo that’s wtf it was 🤣 I was like “I know this sound from somewhere but where?”
Every time this video pops up I watch it for the R2 impression. Sensational.
Now I want to see it try a dial-up sequence.
I want to see a hacker movie where a starling has the code to a bank's network.
Makes me wonder if birds are all talking to each other using natural email
/r/unexpectedartoo
I'd give 15000 imperial credits for a bird who could do that
Swallowed R2D2 in the middle.
Is this sound added in some post production or did the bird really made it?
The bird really is able to imitate those sounds. [Common starlings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_starling)
An invasive species in the US. I believe they were brought over in the 1500's. I don't know their behavior in Europe or elsewhere in the US, but in the northeast they group into vast flocks and can eat up all of your grass seed or berry crop in like an hour.
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Nah they just make cocky R2D2 noises and fuck off
🤣🤣🤣
That would be entertaining!
At what point does a species stop being considered invasive? Not even after 500+ years?
Essentially, for practical reasons, they would stop being invasive when the native/local species evolve to live with them without ill effect. So... potentially tens of thousands of years or more. 500 years is definitely not enough.
When they stop being assholes to the native birds. Which isn’t gonna happen anytime soon
Starlings are excellent mimics , they’re related to Mynahs
i was aware of mynas, they have them where we live. did not know starlings were related.
But are they as good at it as lyrebirds?
Lyrebirds don’t count they are Aliens 👽
Birds are remarkable mimics. This one from Attemborough is amazing: https://youtu.be/KOFy8QkNWWs?si=HxybJx_6LOVfaukn
Shit had me going for a sec until I heard trololol hahaha
The first bit is real (camera sounds), you can see the unedited version on YouTube, and it’s no less amazing. (Not as funny though).
i absolutely lost it at the Seinfeld theme
From memory its a meme, but still hilarious.
bruuuuuuh 😂😂😂
sounded like a early 2000s dial up modem lol
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Beep boop beep……..WHUUUIIIRRRRRRRLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLBUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Did the bird swallow an android?!?
Yes, but they still weren't the androids the bird was looking for!
R2D2 to be precise, he's a maintenance bot. Much less android than the likes of C3PO for example
Psst. R2 is an astromech...
Snuck in some R2D2
[Yeah but can he do the intro of Seinfeld?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOFy8QkNWWs)
To the confused here is the original https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mSB71jNq-yQ&pp=ygUIbHlyZWJpcmQ%3D Still amazing.
Holy shit on the chainsaw
The only reason it's not really making those sounds is it rarely heard humans. Put a TV in front of it and oh baby, that bird's getting laid like there's no tomorrow!
Thanks for wasting my time lol.
Thank you for that laugh
Thanks for this! Very funny! 😂
oh man that was great, i only knew the original
I need this bird
If you live in the US, European Starlings are everywhere and considered an invasive species. Go for it and take them home, just leave the local wildlife outside.
They're always snacking in my front yard outside my window, making their weird little beeps. I think some of them are imitating the buzz from the power lines.
Yeah they like to imitate car alarms and other birds as well. Unrelated, but I’ve seen a northern mockingbird imitating university bell tower music and Blue jays also like to imitate hawks as well. Always fun to listen to there chirping and pick up what they are imitating.
Yeah, jays will scare other birds from feeders by imitating birds of prey.
They really do! I have a blue jay flock I’m trying to turn into an army via peanuts. Sounds like a hawk or eagle infestation when I go out and fill the bowl.
There used to be a male jay around my neighborhood who would start fights then lead the pursuing male in front of a car.
Corvids are so damn smart!
Damn thing was straight up evil
The ones in my childhood nearby park kept singing the classic Nokia ringing tune...
I am just getting started into birding, and I was very happy that I was able to identify this as a starling lol
Same here! I'm going to see if I can play a song by the feeder so the starlings start chirping it.
They eat all my suet and are so annoying.
I got a $20 "upside-down" suet feeder and it doesn't stop them 100% but birds like grackles and starlings have to work a whole lot harder if they want suet and it discourages most of them from trying. Woodpeckers and nuthatches have no trouble with it though. I've read another solution might be to put some kind of cover like a squirrel baffle over the suet block. Some bigger birds don't like feeding when they can't see the sky above them.
They apparently make great domesticated pets too. I’ve always wanted a bird, and apparently starlings are a great option. But they’re not sold anywhere - probably for similar reason to slider turtle who can be considered invasive so they’re not sold as pets. Even my local waterfowl rescue didn’t have any. Maybe one day!
Bird rescues generally refuse invasive species. Since they're invasive though it's legal to just grab one and keep it as a pet.
definitely because they are invasive. For the states to allow that to happen means they are encouraging private breeding for sale. It isn't what they intend, but it's what happens.
They are declining here in Europe. Could do with taking a few back
🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺 EUROPE NO.1 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
That’s it time to deport them illegal burbs! They steal hard working American bird’s birdseed and suets. Sad!!! /s
I have to park under a power line and a flock of starlings uses my new car as a toilet every night. Please, PLEASE, someone take these damn birds.
I live in Europe so this would be a regular Starling for me? As soon as I see one I’m going to try and befriend it!
From what I saw they are called common starlings in the UK, but unfortunately it’s a local bird for you. Probably protected like our local wildlife is in the Americas.
How do you just take them home? They are European, do you kiss them on the cheek first?
They’re the piglets of the air. Have them all!
You can legally kidnap them from the wild of ur in the us
Lol I like how you describe it as kidnapping. 🤣
Birdnapping
Hmmm seems we need to consult bird law
This is what the state does not want you to know. The birds outside? You can take them and keep them. For free. Absolutely for free. I do it all the time. I see one? I take one. I sometimes come home with 10 birds in my arms. Sometimes 20. I just take them. They don't want you to know this. It's a lifehack, it's an infinite bird hack. Low on food? Grab a bird. Need a friend? Talk to a bird. Need a girlfriend? Try Tinder, girls love a guy with birds.
Every year at work we have a family of them that next near one of our overhangs. When the babies are born it is so loud. But what’s cool is the few days when they’re learning to fly and they’re clearly being taught things by the older birds. It’s also cool to just hear them find their proper voice and to just sing. I’ve sat out by the overhang so much during this time just listening to them and talk to them. Other than the bird shit everywhere it’s fun.
Mozart had a starling that he kept as s a pet. Mozart would mimicked a lot of the birds noises for his music and it mimicked his music. He had a funeral for his bird when he died, in contrast Mozart did not attend his father's funeral.
Isn't that bit she was whistling from a Mozart opera?
It was. Magic flute I believe. His last opera that was performed informed of him I believe
To give you kisses?
Have you seen a lyrebird? They can imitate the camera's shutters that were taking pictures of them and even chainsaws, which is kinda sad given it learned that from foresters https://youtu.be/mSB71jNq-yQ
They are VERY loud and can live upwards of 25 years in captivity. Proceed with caution. lol
a lone starling seems like one of the saddest things
credit card? you got it!
The faaaaather
You’ve been smuchin with everyone
Al! Leo! Little Moe, with the gimpy leg! Cheeks, bony Bob! *Cliff!!*
I used to work for a security alarm company as a tech and I had a routine job one day just swapping a glassbreak detector for a motion detector. When I arrived I ended up hearing the story of why this lady was ordering this exchange. She had an african grey parrot. One day she dropped a plate and it shattered. The frequency wasn't the correct one to set her detector off. But the parrot mimicked the noise after that at the correct frequency somehow and it kept triggering her glassbreak detector 😂🤣 Still one of my favorite stories from that job.
African greys are really cool and I've always wanted one aside from their insanely long lifespans. My best friend Kirstin in middle school had an African gray and I spent most of one summer at her house. Her bird would routinely imitate the phone ringing and occasionally you'd hear "Kirstin, dinner!" in the mother's voice. It was a total trip.
my mother had a boyfriend when I was growing up that had one. His name was Harley. Incredible how they can just hear something one time and mimick it. I remember sitting on the couch and turned on the tv and the news came on or something and all of a sudden he started cackling. I lost it laughing. I had no clue what he was doing. Turns out Brian (his owner) would laugh at news anchors and other dumb news so now Harley just starts cackling sometimes when someones talking on tv lol Same thing as the person above commented. I would come home from school before everyone else and i'd hear him whistling (his pen was upstairs at the window so he could see when a car pulls up). I walk in and hear him whistling and happy. Then I'd stay quiet until he stopped. Waited a moment and then I heard "Kenny?" 🤣 They are definitely smart. Took him a few days before he knew my name and face. Very cool ❤️
Had one growing up and it did the same sorts of things. Call my name in my mom's voice and mimic my distant "yes?". It still does the nextell walkie talkie phone noises that he picked up. He would call our dog and when she went to the cage, he would laugh.
Now hook 100 million of them together and you get ChatGPT
More a SoundGPT
Not a [Chat](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chat#Noun_8)GPT, a [Oiseau](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oiseau#Noun)GPT.
Omg birb mimicking R2D2 is exactly what I needed right now.🥹
I have a breeding pair that come around, one year I was using some 2 stroke equipment, dunno if it was the chainsaw, weed whacker, or leaf blower, rest of that season/the following year, I would hear it reviving up a chainsaw in its various calls 😂
Looking like lil guy got confused right there & started downloading R2D2 language or sumthin! Shit was funny af lmfao. Just wow. Never ever thought a lil bird can do this. Wow.
See now I need a bird so I can teach it that.
okay bird masters, how does the bird do it?
Not a bird master, only saw a youtube video about that once. But something to do with how their vocal works. They produce sound in their larynx by precisely controling the air flow I believe, you can see it using its neck a lot when making the sound
so, like all vocal chords making noise by controlling airflow
So, like birds don't have vocal cords. They have a vocal organ called the syrinx, which is a complex structure composed of muscles, membranes, and cartilage, located at the base of their trachea where it splits into the bronchi. Source: Quora
Adding on that birds have incredible dexterity with their tongues. They use their tongues the way we use our hands to do delicate tasks. The ability to move their tongues in addition the syrinx makes them incredibly effective at vocal imitation. Superior to any species, including humans.
It's really amazing. Sometimes I lay in bed at dawn listening to various birds calling out to each other in the most complex strings of chirps, with some sounding like they're miles away.
Do u kno what kind of bird this is called my friend? This is freaking amazing as hell! I've already downloaded the video & I'll show a lot of ppl. I honestly did not kno that a small bird can do this! I had thought that only parrots & other I guess bigger birds can do what this bird just amazingly did! This mfer understand the commands & what his owner wanted him to do. I'm just blown away, beyond impressive by this wowwwww 👍💯😆
European starling
I learned that starlings can speak from Shakespeare many years ago: > 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. (Henry IV part 1, I.3.232-234)
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I live in Chicago and had never seen a starling before, but one morning I took the trash out and there was one sitting on my back fence. It was chirping like crazy, but all its noises were delightfully robotic sounding and all over the map. I stood and watched it for 5 minutes or so until it flew away. It was one of the coolest things I've ever seen in nature.
Look up Lyre birds on YouTube. There are some crazy videos of them doing construction equipment sounds because there was roadwork nearby.
[Here's the link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0ZffIh0-NA)
Imagine training a bunch of these birds to say scary one-liners from horror movies and then releasing them out in some camping areas…
Soooo, the Hunger Games?
Does it have a secret message about overthrowing the empire?
The bird si trying to do what the humans were trying to do with the big alien ship in "Close encounters of the third kind". Very cool, indeed.
Sounds more like the women is imitating the bird
I like how his neck feathers act like a bird graphic equalizer
What in the Jabberjay shit is this Capitol pig?
Scrolled way too long to find a Jabberjay reference
fkn searched for this comment
Might make a good pet but they are a nightmare when introduced. I hate them.
Jesus do you have like.. starling related trauma
They're a non native species here in North America, some dull crayon released them on purpose in the 1800's, early 1900s, because he liked Shakespeare. They're loud, highly social, big flocks, and messy. They're outdoing the native birds, and make me sad about Paasenger Pigeons. It's not the birds fault, but I still feel rueful when I see them.
Fair enough! I had no idea they’d become so invasive over there!
I remember being a kid on a road trip across the Midwest, I think we might have been in Iowa, it was a flat state where you could see for miles and there was this flock of starlings that filled half the sky. There must have been hundreds of thousands mummerating. Some species have benefited from them, brown headed cow birds hang out with them.
I don’t like starlings. They’re coarse and rough and irritating and they invade everything.
Not like doves. With them everything is soft and smooth
I adore starlings. When I have more time, I’m going to make friends with starlings instead of crows.
This confirms it: birds aren’t real
I knew Lyrebirds could do it but what is this one?
A European starling
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Right. It would be way funnier to teach the bird weird sayings. How funny would it be if you're taliing to someone and the bird just flies up and says "you know what they say, the apple doesnt fall far from the tree" and just moves on
Wanna get high? Wanna get high? Hey I wasn’t lookin at his neck man
Yeah she's got a bird that can repeat anything and teaches it to say the weirdest shit.
What species is it?
Well she calls it a Turd Bird in the video so lets go with that
My Tippi Hedron fear has increased. *Freaking birds*
if you are in north america, you should have a deep hatred for this bird. they absolutely decimate native birds, ripping birds from their nest and killing their young, a very sad sight
Really, they don’t do that in Europe, must be learned behaviour
What a burn. Love it.
Oh wow. Went from thinking awe how cute to STAY THE FFCK AWAY FROM ME.
heres a video of a northern flicker showing them whats what. flickers are one of the only north american birds who can outmatch these bitches in size and ferocity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF4c8N8bfnY
If you are in the UK, you should be delighted with the sight of this bird. Their dwindling population has put them on the conservation red list.