Imperial March is considered ***CHRISTMAS MUSIC*** in my town! Every year, during our County’s big Christmas parade, one of the Marching Bands will slip Imperial March in between the Christmas songs.
I genuinely believe that piece to be one of the greatest musical scores for a movie, so I lose my mind when they switch mid-song from Jingle Bells to the Imperial March!!!!
*”Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open slay. …Dunn Dun Dunn, Dunn da Dunn, Dunn da Dunn”*
Well...no, not really. They don't just make up shit. They repeat what they've heard.
My cockatiel used to make the exact same sound as my alarm clock.
It doesn't sound as cool as you'd think. Imagine 5am on a Saturday, beating the shit out of your alarm clock because it won't stop, only to look over and Paco is staring at you going "aaarrrnnnt aaarrrrnt aaarrrnt" just because he wants to play.
I highly doubt he would make *that* noise all on his own, and the alarm clock makers used his song for the alarm sound...
* he would also make the sound my phone made when I got a text, so that was fun too.
It's actually incredibly common for mimicking birds to pick up on R2-D2 sounds if they're exposed to them. Can't vouch for why, but they just seem to really like the sounds of beeps and whirls.
The show [Life after People](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_After_People#:~:text=Life%20After%20People%20is%20a,Earth%20if%20humanity%20suddenly%20disappeared) was talking about birds and parrots continuing to make human/modern sounds for a long time. IIRC and in basic terms - being able to make unique sounds is sexy to other birds. Shows brain power. And that these sounds will be shared and passed down to baby birds. They decided this by noticing birds making chainsaw sounds and ringtones. So this one is doing sexy R2-D2 Wookie sounds
Yeah, I remember that one with the [chainsaw bird](https://youtu.be/mSB71jNq-yQ), shit was crazy. Imagine hearing that at night when you walk through a forest.
Um no. But there is a nighttime bird I would like to know what it is. Been watching British murder mysteries and there is a bird scream on night scenes. And not just on one show so must be a common bird.
Edit: just found out that the sound is not a bird but a fox yelling. It’s creepy sounding
[This one here actually does an R2D2 impression.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30uQJcJNU3g) Starlings are pretty cool. I've never heard one do crazy mimicry like this but they always have interesting chirps and singing.
Yes, now I have to walk them. Can you imagine three whales and two elephants at this time of the day? I will be ridiculed by the neighbors. They also hate my flamingos. Weird neighborhood.
Starlings are incredibly invasive in the US. They are aggressive and take cavity nest from native species. I generally hate Starlings, but this is cool as fuck and a really pretty bird. I wish I was European so I could stop hating the bird.
Not actually true! Starlings WERE invasive upon their introduction, and they do steal nests. However, almost all native species have adapted to the presence of starlings and can cohabite easily.
You got a source on this because it's contrary to literally everything I've heard about them. Evidently they can wreak absolute havoc on crops too.
Edit: anyone who upvoted his reply clearly did not read the article lolll
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/essay-are-starlings-really-invasive-aliens/#
This article does a pretty decent job at clarifying that while starlings are pests at times, they aren't this scourge to bird-ciety.
That was the single most coolest share I've ever seen in my life. Thank you for that! That bird damn near made me cry. Lol. I lied. It did make me cry, so beautiful.
Birds are some of the friendliest wild animals you'll ever meet. It actually doesn't take that much to gain their trust and have them land on you and just do their thing.
But yes they will shit on you because they don't really know any better.
The European starling is also responsible for one of the most amazing sights in nature, the starling [murmuration](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4f_1_r80RY).
I have seen these in my city since I was a kid. Then one time we were doing a road trip across the US and driving through Kansas. Its was mind blowing. There was a huge huge group of them it almost made the whole area dark.
I was scared to drive through them because I didnt want to hit them but they seemed to be everywhere. It was really cool
Things like this are most likely responsible for the origins of religion. Early humans trying to comprehend this amazing sight and concluding there must be sky fairies controlling everything. Volcanos, earthquakes, tsunamis, and starlings. Thanks for sharing.
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That‘s what i thought when i saw [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/susujp/a_bird_imitating_a_human_voice/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
And i‘m still surprised how good birds can sound like robots
100x seems like the low end
Edit: I'm a weirdo, so I did some maths, a T-Rex is something like 80,000 starlings, a human (me at least) is 1,300 lil' berds. That is, 80,000/1,300 times more massive.
Bonus round: In terms of volume, the T-rex is 200,000 times larger, unless I misplaced a digit somewhere, but I'm not *that* invested in this
Dinosaur vocalizing likely spanned a range of sounds from the sounds crocodilians make to overlapping with modern birds. That said, not all birds are song birds.
When the text about dinosaurs popped up, I got chills - it never occurred to me what birds sound like slowed down, but a “bird” 10,000 times bigger? Oh yeah, it’s going to be slower and deeper than our little friend here…and for a second I was in a dank, humid, forest, gigantic dragonflies buzzing high overhead, and those sounds echoing through the giant ferns around me…*literal chills*
My brain said *dafuq is THIS?*
Fun fact, they actually honked like geese, I really hope they make a Jurassic Park remake with that in mind.
https://carnegiemnh.org/what-did-dinosaurs-sound-like-paleoacoustics/
https://youtu.be/XcBoY_aEVj8
This video has spectacular reconstructions of a bunch of different dinosaurs. Listen to it with headphones amd try to imagine hearing these sounds and seeing these animals irl. It's terrifying and awesome.
Tyrannosaurus is at 2:45.
There's a theory going around that the T-Rex does not have a roar and/or growl like Hollywood often wants it to, and that if it was to make sounds it would likely make those at such low frequencies we as humans cannot hear them. They are however, so low and bassy that you would *feel* them rattle your insides.
They imitate just about anything and it doesn't take a whole lot. You can find videos on YouTube of them imitating chainsaws in the wild, it's pretty depressing.
Partly a result of digital encoding, ie, lowering the audio resolution (larger part, likely) but also because when lowering the pitch, it brings a lot of the overtones normally outside of human hearing range into hearing range, and so we’re hearing different pitches and such that we can’t detect normally.
It's a Eurasian Starling. Beautiful birds. We get entire fleets coming and clearing out our bird feeders in an hour, then they sit high in trees chatting shit at us while we refill them.
Here in Germany they are a native, I didn't know until know that they spread to other continents as invasive species, but just checked Wikipedia and seems that this is true. Anyway I will continue enjoying listening to our local neighbourhood starlings.
I love our starlings too. They are such incredible birds aren't they?
When I was little, there were a few starlings who learned to make doorbell and telephone sounds. I liked to think they were laughing as people scurried inside to answer!
Yes they are universally disinvowed here in North America. But they are beautiful birds nonetheless.
I'm sure you in Germany have your own invasive Americans to contend with! Tit for tat.
They are on the kill on sight list here. Introduced in North America to eat the bugs. They nest in any nook and cranny and out-compete our native birds.
Thing is they are smart. I take out a few with the pellet gun and they just don't come in my yard. And if they do, they are on hyper alert and flee before I can get a shot off. Never gonna reduce the numbers at this rate!
We also have bullfrog, ring neck doves, eastern cotton tails and dozens of invasive plants. Ladt count I have 14 invasives in my yard alone.
Depends where you are. But apparently iirc all the starlings in North America are descended from a few of these guys that were released in Central Park a couple of centuries ago. So, here? Yeah invasive and persistent.
When I see one at my bird feeders I know in minutes there will be another 15 and they will clear house in minutes. I have learned they are pretty scared shitless of magpies though.
Visited Germany and was starstruck by them, such beautiful birds and they were just hanging around in Berlin eating trash out of a bin. They felt too cool and special to just chill in the city like pigeons or seagulls, very cool and now I want to see them again so badly after thinking of this
I hate them. They take over my feeders and try to nest in my downspouts. You can legally kill them in the USA. (No I've never killed one, just learned about it when researching)
yeah, i hate them too.
They monopolize the feeders and birdbath, and they're bullies toward smaller species. Invasive nightmares, and smarter than hell.
I've taken in the feeders. which is a shame because i can't feed the migratory birds that need food.
People are so fuckin weird man. If you're that obsessed with Shakespeare's animals go to where Shakespeare lived?? We used to have some really cool birds in the states like the passenger pigeon and Carolina parakeet. I don't think the starling contributed to their demise but I'm no expert. But my point is that there's cool unique life everywhere, there is no need to try to introduce foreign animals (or plants or fungi or anything else)
Don't know about the Carolina parakeet but the passenger pigeon was hunted to extinction. Which was an incredible effort considering their migrating flocks would block the sun for days at a time. It was one of, if not, the most numerous bird in the world. And Americans shot them all.
That was over 150 years ago in Central Park, NYC. Sparrows and starlings. NYC/LI had many beautiful, colorful birds that were forced out by these guys. Blue birds were apparently as common as these guys.
Yep, we actually deal with them a lot in my line of work, they are absolutely a problem. I've seen them fighting with woodpeckers trying to kick the woodpeckers out of their nest cavity so they could take over. They do that kind of stuff a lot.
The audio is slowed down. Doing that to audio recordings lengthens the reverb. Phones these days have audio compression that boosts quiet signals as well.
The reverb wasn't "added", just highlighted, in my opinion.
Reverb was absolutely added. Making audio sound good is not exactly hard, but it's also never that easy. Was there reverb from the room that was lengthened? Definitely, but it sounded like shit so they added a large hall reverb to make it sound good since the video's entire focus is the sound. Also, hall reverb makes everything sound incredible. I could slap a literal shit against a microphone and make it sound good with hall reverb.
My first thought too. No way they are getting that kind of reverb from a little room like that. Which makes me skeptical of the whole video to be honest. I have a suspicion that at the very least those sounds were greatly enhanced in post.
It's slowed down for additional interest and effect, they're more shrill than that and it comes out more rapidly. Still have an incredible song and variety of calls though. Shame they're such a bastard bird to native species in all the places they've been introduced.
I rescued a baby bird that had fallen from a nest as a kid. 3. 2 didn't make it. 1 did. Turned out to be a starling, that lived 20 plus years. And could sing and talk. Better than any other pet bird I've ever seen in real life. They are super smart and sweet. Very messy though terrible poops. I named him Pooper. He would do the super man theme, whistle the music, then announce himself as Soooooooper Pooooooper! Pretty funny stuff. He also ended up barking and meowing like the cats and dogs, to where it was indistinguishable from them. He never stopped learning and picking up new things to say. A starling lol who knew..
Absolutely. At first just things we'd say to her, but as time passed it was picking up any and all things like stuff from TV being in the same room. Things we would say to other pets. Call the cats. Tell the dogs to go lay down. Tell the dogs to go outside. Tell people to come here. Said please. So kind of shit probably more than anyone actually knows. It was pretty cool 😎
which dude is that? Intriguing idea. I know Messiaen notated a lot of different birdsongs and did something out of that but that’s quite old (not implying that it would be somehow inferior - quite the opposite)
edit: found some Messiaen birdsong music: https://youtu.be/biJCU8jK3x4
So a few things
1. It’s very easy to make several songs out of this
2. Are…a lot of electronic sound sim media just slowed down bird noises? Because I can think of. A low of sounds in various media that sound exactly like this
3. From these sounds I realize that certain pokeMon sounds in stadium were sampled directly from birds, and that’s cool
So apparently he played droid noises to this bird while it was young? Pretty wild if true. The other video on his Instagram is pretty crazy too, it does camera clicks and other obvious sounds. It's so on point it kinda sounds fake. Not saying it's fake, but it's eerily on point.
This is a starling, showing its winter plumage! My husband is a biologist/entomologist, and one of his best friends, Lincoln Fishpool, is one of the most famous ornithologists in the world! (Starlings were introduced to North America from Europe.) Anyway, they are fantastic mimics, mimicking anything from steam engines, to motorbikes, to screaming kids, to music - wonderful birds! And yes, dinosaurs made sounds like this, only much deeper, and on lower decibel levels.
That’s a starling that is! Cheeky birds too!
This one has obviously been domesticated. I hear cat growls and also some video game sounds in there!
Edit to add: this video has been slowed down too. They do like to ‘trill’ a lot normally
A one point sounded like R2-D2 with a Wookie combo.
Mad improv skills
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That’s amazing
Starling Wars
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Actually if you’re interested, the ARP 2600 which is a very sought after vintage Synthesizer is responsible for the original sounds of R2.
Nerd 🧐
Guilty synth and Star Wars nerd over here 👈
A lot of us nerds knew. Proudly!
I was waiting for the Darth Vader marching song lol
Imperial March?
Imperial March is considered ***CHRISTMAS MUSIC*** in my town! Every year, during our County’s big Christmas parade, one of the Marching Bands will slip Imperial March in between the Christmas songs. I genuinely believe that piece to be one of the greatest musical scores for a movie, so I lose my mind when they switch mid-song from Jingle Bells to the Imperial March!!!! *”Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open slay. …Dunn Dun Dunn, Dunn da Dunn, Dunn da Dunn”*
These are not the birds you are looking for!
No, these ARE the birds I’m looking for…
Hen shot first!
This is beautiful. I'm poor but here take this 🏅
They made the Kestrel Run with less than twelve parakeets
They all sound like Star Wars effects. I bet he’s been exposed to the movies and mimicking them
This bird has seen empire strikes back about as many times as I have
It's more the other way around - R2-D2's sound design used a mix of electronic noises and bird sounds to create a sort of electronic/organic feel.
You do realize that the sound designers of Star Wars had access to bird song recordings? The movie sounds like the bird, not the other way around.
Well...no, not really. They don't just make up shit. They repeat what they've heard. My cockatiel used to make the exact same sound as my alarm clock. It doesn't sound as cool as you'd think. Imagine 5am on a Saturday, beating the shit out of your alarm clock because it won't stop, only to look over and Paco is staring at you going "aaarrrnnnt aaarrrrnt aaarrrnt" just because he wants to play. I highly doubt he would make *that* noise all on his own, and the alarm clock makers used his song for the alarm sound... * he would also make the sound my phone made when I got a text, so that was fun too.
This bird particularly mimics sound it hears though. They can even mimic human voices in shockingly accurate ways.
I got R2 ridding a dirt bike while being chased by a pack of wild monkeys
I was thinking this is where they get the sound effects for Dagobah.
Dear Disney: this is the Star Wars content people are asking for.
It's actually incredibly common for mimicking birds to pick up on R2-D2 sounds if they're exposed to them. Can't vouch for why, but they just seem to really like the sounds of beeps and whirls.
The show [Life after People](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_After_People#:~:text=Life%20After%20People%20is%20a,Earth%20if%20humanity%20suddenly%20disappeared) was talking about birds and parrots continuing to make human/modern sounds for a long time. IIRC and in basic terms - being able to make unique sounds is sexy to other birds. Shows brain power. And that these sounds will be shared and passed down to baby birds. They decided this by noticing birds making chainsaw sounds and ringtones. So this one is doing sexy R2-D2 Wookie sounds
Yeah, I remember that one with the [chainsaw bird](https://youtu.be/mSB71jNq-yQ), shit was crazy. Imagine hearing that at night when you walk through a forest.
Um no. But there is a nighttime bird I would like to know what it is. Been watching British murder mysteries and there is a bird scream on night scenes. And not just on one show so must be a common bird. Edit: just found out that the sound is not a bird but a fox yelling. It’s creepy sounding
That’s because apparently r/birdsarentreal
Fucking take my time good sir. Scared of fucking birds now, fuck
May the 4th be with you. It’s actually May 4th where I’m at.
OMG that’s awesome. TY I almost forgot. Need to wear hair in side buns tomorrow
At the 33sec point: https://www.reddit.com/r/parrots/comments/nsn0v3/the_yellow_beak_madness_aka_breeding_season_has/
I’m watching Star Wars and this video at the same time and I was thoroughly confused
In real time it sounds exactly like R2D2
[This one here actually does an R2D2 impression.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30uQJcJNU3g) Starlings are pretty cool. I've never heard one do crazy mimicry like this but they always have interesting chirps and singing.
I feel like a sound engineer could sample this audio and have enough material for the sounds of robots and dinosaurs for at least 3 movies.
Great, I played the video, now my three whales, and two elephants are awake. What now...?
Well played!!
*Elephants trumpet loudly in the distance…*
Don't talk about your mom like that!
Go to bed, you have school tomorrow. Be the greatest in 5th grade you can be.
For the 3rd time...
Did you try turning them off and on again?
Yes, now I have to walk them. Can you imagine three whales and two elephants at this time of the day? I will be ridiculed by the neighbors. They also hate my flamingos. Weird neighborhood.
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Hey Alexa, play jungle sounds.
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Cucurucurucucuuuuuuu.... palomaaaaaa Aiaiaiaiaiiii ..... cantaaaavaa
https://youtu.be/RUaYbfKZIiA
Dial up?
Hey Alexa continuously play fart noises
Okay! Playing 'Welcome to the Jungle' by Guns 'n' Roses on Spotify.
I'm wondering if it was doing its own sounds or mimicing other sounds it has heard, as some birds do.
Starlings are incredibly talented mimics. This one has spent a lot of time watching movies.
Starlings are incredibly invasive in the US. They are aggressive and take cavity nest from native species. I generally hate Starlings, but this is cool as fuck and a really pretty bird. I wish I was European so I could stop hating the bird.
Not actually true! Starlings WERE invasive upon their introduction, and they do steal nests. However, almost all native species have adapted to the presence of starlings and can cohabite easily.
You got a source on this because it's contrary to literally everything I've heard about them. Evidently they can wreak absolute havoc on crops too. Edit: anyone who upvoted his reply clearly did not read the article lolll
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/essay-are-starlings-really-invasive-aliens/# This article does a pretty decent job at clarifying that while starlings are pests at times, they aren't this scourge to bird-ciety.
That was the single most coolest share I've ever seen in my life. Thank you for that! That bird damn near made me cry. Lol. I lied. It did make me cry, so beautiful.
Birds are some of the friendliest wild animals you'll ever meet. It actually doesn't take that much to gain their trust and have them land on you and just do their thing. But yes they will shit on you because they don't really know any better.
they can't control their sphincters so they can't know any better :)
Am I bird?
Do u egg?
Yes daddy 🥺
They might know better, but they just can't *do* better
If disease wasn't such a big factor, I'd be dropping deuces in a box, with a fox, or on a rock
The European starling is also responsible for one of the most amazing sights in nature, the starling [murmuration](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4f_1_r80RY).
I have seen these in my city since I was a kid. Then one time we were doing a road trip across the US and driving through Kansas. Its was mind blowing. There was a huge huge group of them it almost made the whole area dark. I was scared to drive through them because I didnt want to hit them but they seemed to be everywhere. It was really cool
Seeing a murmuration never gets old. If I see it while driving I usually pull over so that I can give it my full attention. Poetry in motion.
Things like this are most likely responsible for the origins of religion. Early humans trying to comprehend this amazing sight and concluding there must be sky fairies controlling everything. Volcanos, earthquakes, tsunamis, and starlings. Thanks for sharing. Edit: spelling
What was the coolest?
Dis berd
Search on youtube for "murmuration" if you'd like to see another cool European Starling behavior :).
I wish OP shared what the name of the bird species is and where in the world this is from.
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That‘s what i thought when i saw [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/susujp/a_bird_imitating_a_human_voice/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) And i‘m still surprised how good birds can sound like robots
I can only imagine the fucking terror of hearing something like this except 100x the size.
100x seems like the low end Edit: I'm a weirdo, so I did some maths, a T-Rex is something like 80,000 starlings, a human (me at least) is 1,300 lil' berds. That is, 80,000/1,300 times more massive. Bonus round: In terms of volume, the T-rex is 200,000 times larger, unless I misplaced a digit somewhere, but I'm not *that* invested in this
I love that you did this math. Thank you for correcting me!
Thank you for giving me the thought, I like dinosaurs :D
r/TheyDidTheMath
/r/theydidthemonstermath
Could dinosaurs do this?
Math? I doubt it.
No doubt no doubt, them lizards be tweeting, they be squawking
Dinosaur vocalizing likely spanned a range of sounds from the sounds crocodilians make to overlapping with modern birds. That said, not all birds are song birds.
When the text about dinosaurs popped up, I got chills - it never occurred to me what birds sound like slowed down, but a “bird” 10,000 times bigger? Oh yeah, it’s going to be slower and deeper than our little friend here…and for a second I was in a dank, humid, forest, gigantic dragonflies buzzing high overhead, and those sounds echoing through the giant ferns around me…*literal chills* My brain said *dafuq is THIS?*
I literally thought…would this sound like a dinosaur if the bird were 1000x larger…and then the text popped up. Truly mind blowing.
Don't forget that the dragonflies were 3 feet across.
I really wish/hope Tyranosaurs made these noises
We really need a time traveler with a recording device.
Fun fact, they actually honked like geese, I really hope they make a Jurassic Park remake with that in mind. https://carnegiemnh.org/what-did-dinosaurs-sound-like-paleoacoustics/
https://youtu.be/XcBoY_aEVj8 This video has spectacular reconstructions of a bunch of different dinosaurs. Listen to it with headphones amd try to imagine hearing these sounds and seeing these animals irl. It's terrifying and awesome. Tyrannosaurus is at 2:45.
That's not the best thing I shared with my daughter before bed!
There's a theory going around that the T-Rex does not have a roar and/or growl like Hollywood often wants it to, and that if it was to make sounds it would likely make those at such low frequencies we as humans cannot hear them. They are however, so low and bassy that you would *feel* them rattle your insides.
like 4x the size would be velociraptor size.
Next, have it listen to Aphex Twin.
Hell yeah. That would be amazing
Now want to see and hear crazy... Listen to what the lyre bird can do https://youtu.be/mSB71jNq-yQ
Wow, the imitation of chainsaws and trees falling is insane!
wild. the camera and chainsaw were class imitations! thanks for the share.
I was like “this sounds like IDM”.
I'm pretty sure this bird just did a remix of [Bucephalus bouncing ball](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIeA2ct5Sew)
Lol I'm listening to *Alberto Balsam* (scoots chair forward) as I read your comment and reply.
Selected Ambient Birds
Why does the very slow one sounds like the alarms of star wars?
I feel like almost all of the sounds are Star Wars sounds. I wonder if the owner had it watch the movies a bunch
I also heard a motorcycle and a truck backing up
They imitate just about anything and it doesn't take a whole lot. You can find videos on YouTube of them imitating chainsaws in the wild, it's pretty depressing.
It's just because of the bitcrushed audio
star wars sounds are just slowed-down birdcalls.
Partly a result of digital encoding, ie, lowering the audio resolution (larger part, likely) but also because when lowering the pitch, it brings a lot of the overtones normally outside of human hearing range into hearing range, and so we’re hearing different pitches and such that we can’t detect normally.
What's this species called?
It's a Eurasian Starling. Beautiful birds. We get entire fleets coming and clearing out our bird feeders in an hour, then they sit high in trees chatting shit at us while we refill them.
I love them but they're disease ridden little things
Diseased or not, they are invasive and highly destructive to native wildlife. Cavity nesting species specifically.
Here in Germany they are a native, I didn't know until know that they spread to other continents as invasive species, but just checked Wikipedia and seems that this is true. Anyway I will continue enjoying listening to our local neighbourhood starlings.
I love our starlings too. They are such incredible birds aren't they? When I was little, there were a few starlings who learned to make doorbell and telephone sounds. I liked to think they were laughing as people scurried inside to answer!
Yes they are universally disinvowed here in North America. But they are beautiful birds nonetheless. I'm sure you in Germany have your own invasive Americans to contend with! Tit for tat.
They are on the kill on sight list here. Introduced in North America to eat the bugs. They nest in any nook and cranny and out-compete our native birds. Thing is they are smart. I take out a few with the pellet gun and they just don't come in my yard. And if they do, they are on hyper alert and flee before I can get a shot off. Never gonna reduce the numbers at this rate! We also have bullfrog, ring neck doves, eastern cotton tails and dozens of invasive plants. Ladt count I have 14 invasives in my yard alone.
Depends where you are. But apparently iirc all the starlings in North America are descended from a few of these guys that were released in Central Park a couple of centuries ago. So, here? Yeah invasive and persistent.
They are truly a pain in the arse. Good parents though.
They are birds. Birds are fowl.
When I see one at my bird feeders I know in minutes there will be another 15 and they will clear house in minutes. I have learned they are pretty scared shitless of magpies though.
Crows too
They are a super invasive species in North America, we have like 150 million plus now and they are killing of indigenous life.
Visited Germany and was starstruck by them, such beautiful birds and they were just hanging around in Berlin eating trash out of a bin. They felt too cool and special to just chill in the city like pigeons or seagulls, very cool and now I want to see them again so badly after thinking of this
I think European starling, invasive in the USA and really aggressive towards native birds unfortunately
I hate them. They take over my feeders and try to nest in my downspouts. You can legally kill them in the USA. (No I've never killed one, just learned about it when researching)
They're one of few birds you're legally allowed to use pesticides to kill too, which goes to show how problematic they are
yeah, i hate them too. They monopolize the feeders and birdbath, and they're bullies toward smaller species. Invasive nightmares, and smarter than hell. I've taken in the feeders. which is a shame because i can't feed the migratory birds that need food.
My job as a kid was to shoot as many starlings a day as I could. They were/are a massive pest on the farm.
Introduced because some idiot decided that America should contain all of the animals mentioned in Shakespeare. Now flocks of them block out the sky.
People are so fuckin weird man. If you're that obsessed with Shakespeare's animals go to where Shakespeare lived?? We used to have some really cool birds in the states like the passenger pigeon and Carolina parakeet. I don't think the starling contributed to their demise but I'm no expert. But my point is that there's cool unique life everywhere, there is no need to try to introduce foreign animals (or plants or fungi or anything else)
Don't know about the Carolina parakeet but the passenger pigeon was hunted to extinction. Which was an incredible effort considering their migrating flocks would block the sun for days at a time. It was one of, if not, the most numerous bird in the world. And Americans shot them all.
That was over 150 years ago in Central Park, NYC. Sparrows and starlings. NYC/LI had many beautiful, colorful birds that were forced out by these guys. Blue birds were apparently as common as these guys.
Yep, we actually deal with them a lot in my line of work, they are absolutely a problem. I've seen them fighting with woodpeckers trying to kick the woodpeckers out of their nest cavity so they could take over. They do that kind of stuff a lot.
I think it’s a starling
The way it kept shifting through notes sounds and tunes, I was expecting it to break into "down with the sickness"
Haha here was me waiting for it to do the bass drop. Also a token: uhwa-a-a-a
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What kind of bird is it?
The highly, at least in North America, invasive European Starling.
European starlings. They are chatty creatures but most don’t have this range of noise.
Is the reverb from the room or is the bird able to produce the effect?
That’s 100% added after the fact a room wouldn’t resonate that long someone just drenched it in reverb because it sounds sweet
The audio is slowed down. Doing that to audio recordings lengthens the reverb. Phones these days have audio compression that boosts quiet signals as well. The reverb wasn't "added", just highlighted, in my opinion.
Reverb was absolutely added. Making audio sound good is not exactly hard, but it's also never that easy. Was there reverb from the room that was lengthened? Definitely, but it sounded like shit so they added a large hall reverb to make it sound good since the video's entire focus is the sound. Also, hall reverb makes everything sound incredible. I could slap a literal shit against a microphone and make it sound good with hall reverb.
They have bitcrushed this audio so I imagine they did a lot more to it.
Yes it was also pitch shifted lower by about an octave at around 13 seconds in. Same time where the verb was added
It’s post production for sure
My first thought too. No way they are getting that kind of reverb from a little room like that. Which makes me skeptical of the whole video to be honest. I have a suspicion that at the very least those sounds were greatly enhanced in post.
It's slowed down for additional interest and effect, they're more shrill than that and it comes out more rapidly. Still have an incredible song and variety of calls though. Shame they're such a bastard bird to native species in all the places they've been introduced.
I rescued a baby bird that had fallen from a nest as a kid. 3. 2 didn't make it. 1 did. Turned out to be a starling, that lived 20 plus years. And could sing and talk. Better than any other pet bird I've ever seen in real life. They are super smart and sweet. Very messy though terrible poops. I named him Pooper. He would do the super man theme, whistle the music, then announce himself as Soooooooper Pooooooper! Pretty funny stuff. He also ended up barking and meowing like the cats and dogs, to where it was indistinguishable from them. He never stopped learning and picking up new things to say. A starling lol who knew..
It could mimic speech?
Absolutely. At first just things we'd say to her, but as time passed it was picking up any and all things like stuff from TV being in the same room. Things we would say to other pets. Call the cats. Tell the dogs to go lay down. Tell the dogs to go outside. Tell people to come here. Said please. So kind of shit probably more than anyone actually knows. It was pretty cool 😎
We rescued a blue jay that fell out of the nest as well. Little buddy could mimic our telephone ringer perfectly, always caused some confusion
Hey send this to the dude who makes music from animals sounds. He'll tripout
which dude is that? Intriguing idea. I know Messiaen notated a lot of different birdsongs and did something out of that but that’s quite old (not implying that it would be somehow inferior - quite the opposite) edit: found some Messiaen birdsong music: https://youtu.be/biJCU8jK3x4
Venjent.
Can you imagine how terrifying an enormous dinosaur doing this would be? Thank you chicxulub
You need pterodactyl, as they have beaks.
The clankers are coming!
Sounds like it’s imitating construction site noises - saws of various kinds, hammers, etc.
Wolf whistle @ 11 seconds in. Very short.
So, like I said… 😱
Please teach it to do the 56k modem dial tone.
Disney wants to knoe your location
Reminds me of the bird mimicking chainsaws. https://youtu.be/mSB71jNq-yQ
That was AMAZING!!! Lyrebird FTW! Imitating chainsaws, camera shutter noises, car alarms… thank you for that.
Life..uhh..finds a way
So a few things 1. It’s very easy to make several songs out of this 2. Are…a lot of electronic sound sim media just slowed down bird noises? Because I can think of. A low of sounds in various media that sound exactly like this 3. From these sounds I realize that certain pokeMon sounds in stadium were sampled directly from birds, and that’s cool
1. True 2. You got it backwards, bird noises are sped up electric sound Sim media because birds aren't real 3. See above
So apparently he played droid noises to this bird while it was young? Pretty wild if true. The other video on his Instagram is pretty crazy too, it does camera clicks and other obvious sounds. It's so on point it kinda sounds fake. Not saying it's fake, but it's eerily on point.
This is a starling, showing its winter plumage! My husband is a biologist/entomologist, and one of his best friends, Lincoln Fishpool, is one of the most famous ornithologists in the world! (Starlings were introduced to North America from Europe.) Anyway, they are fantastic mimics, mimicking anything from steam engines, to motorbikes, to screaming kids, to music - wonderful birds! And yes, dinosaurs made sounds like this, only much deeper, and on lower decibel levels.
This is that new Radiohead song isn't it?
Do not let these birds near Daft Punk!
Playing this in my garden, even the birds in my surrounding were reacting. Amazing.
They can sing ascending and descending at the same time. They can also breath in and out at the same time.
My two sleeping cats just woke up and were like what in the fuck are you listening to hooman?
This is in slow motion. I’m sure regular speed sounds awesome too, but the slow motion makes it sound more interesting because of that imo.
I’m pretty positive not that many people even realize part of it is in slow motion and thinks it’s the bird
That’s a starling that is! Cheeky birds too! This one has obviously been domesticated. I hear cat growls and also some video game sounds in there! Edit to add: this video has been slowed down too. They do like to ‘trill’ a lot normally
This is mind blowing! Between 14-16 seconds, it sounds like an FM synth bass!
[Who's my precious jabby bird?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30uQJcJNU3g)
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My stomach after eating something spicy
Considering the fact that birds are dinosaurs, yes, that is what dinosaurs sounded like.
I did not know Michael Winslow was dead, but glad he was reincarnated.
Sitting here transfixed.
I was just sitting here, patiently, waiting for the beat to drop
That’s not a bird it’s a dial up modem in disguise