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Grogster Admin Group  Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9753 |
They sure are clever. We used to have a Cockateal that use to love to mimic the telephone ringer. Birds mimicing electronic devices Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| Boppa Guru  Joined: 08/11/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 816 |
A mates mum back years ago had a Major Mitchell parrot that did the phone, and the front door bell.. They had one of the t200 phones you could adjust the tone of the ringer, so it was an ongoing battle with the bird as to whether it was the phone ringing or the parrot doing it... |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4133 |
A common bird here, the starling, can mimic all manner of things. Even the old-fashioned ringing 'phone. Can be very confusing... John |
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CircuitGizmos Guru Joined: 08/09/2011 Location: United StatesPosts: 1427 |
[ hungover ] Somebody answer the damn bird. [ /hungover ] Micromites and Maximites! - Beginning Maximite |
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| Paul_L Guru Joined: 03/03/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 769 |
Back during WWII my great aunt, Manona Uzarowicz, lived in Boothbay Harbor Maine with a very old Parrot named Pete. Pete must have been a centenarian. He had a vocabulary which had been learned on a sailing vessel, and it was pretty raunchy. Aunt Manona was a very demure, correct little old lady with her hair done up in a bun and she would host luncheons for the local Daughters of the American Republic. DARs are all very correct little old ladies with their hair done up in buns. They would sit around eating finger sandwiches and drinking demitasse. Then Pete would start chatting with them. They would ignore him. He would get more insistent and raunchy. They would continue to ignore him. Eventually, Aunt Manona would get up and cover Pete's cage with a blanket and he would quiet down after awhile. It was hilarious. Paul in NY |
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| Bill7300 Senior Member  Joined: 05/08/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 159 |
I think the Aussie lyre bird takes the cake when it comes to mimic skill. If you watched Attenborough's Birds series you will probably recall its perfect chainsaw rendition, along with a SLR camera shutter, with and without motor drive. Bill |
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