[mou] Talking Starlings (from Mark Alt)

Richard Hoyme rhoyme@msn.com
Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:18:58 -0500 

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It's a good time to remind birders that they also are extremely good at =
mimicking other birds. I've heard them do the Red-tailed Hawk scream, =
Killdeer, Phoebe, Least Flycatcher and others. Be careful when birding =
by ear, it just might be a Starling.

Rick Hoyme
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  From: David A. Cahlander<mailto:david@cahlander.com>=20
  To: mou-net@cbs.umn.edu<mailto:mou-net@cbs.umn.edu>=20
  Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 6:13 PM
  Subject: [mou] Talking Starlings (from Mark Alt)


  European Starlings can talk, here is a link to a website with =
Starling's recorded in human speech mimicking. I think this is legit.


  Talking Starlings (with clips)
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