[mou] Talking Starlings (from Mark Alt)
Sharon Stiteler
birdchick@gmail.com
Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:52:07 -0500
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Starlings are excellent mimics and can be trained to talk. There are =20=
quite a few video clips on You Tube of talking starlings. One of my =20
favorites is Weewoo:
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=3Dweewoo&search=3DSearch
Sharon Stiteler
www.birdchick.com
Minneapolis, MN
On Mar 12, 2007, at 6:13 PM, David A. Cahlander wrote:
> European Starlings can talk, here is a link to a website with =20
> Starling=92s recorded in human speech mimicking. I think this is =
legit.
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> Talking Starlings (with clips)
> http://www.starlingcentral.net/starlingmedia.htm
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excellent mimics and can be trained to talk.=A0 There are quite a few =
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face=3D"Arial" size=3D"2"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" =
style=3D"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">European Starlings can =
talk, here is a link to a website with Starling=92s recorded in human =
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