Cool Bird Sounds

I was originally looking for a sounds video about machine sounds, but accidentally stumbled on a video about bird sounds. The one that I found was a video on lyre birds; cute, plain, brown-grey, little birds with very beautiful and elegant tail feathers, who can imitate almost any sound! Personally, I was really amazed by the accuracy of its imitation and even the other birds it imitated were convinced it was one of their own. These birds mostly copy those within their surrounding environment and apparently they copy all the possible birds they can to sing the most complex song to attract females to themselves. I thought about how this reminded me greatly of peacocks – but they use only their tail feathers instead of their voice. This also reminded me of parrots and mocking birds, who also mimic, but the only difference is that you would usually need to train these birds and the sound they imitate is not as accurate as that of the lyre. I am dying to know how these birds are able to do this! I mean if only one bird could do something like this I would call it talent but what about all of them? It also made me wonder whether movie or cartoon production companies ever thought of using these feathered creatures for sound effects rather than using computers to produce the sounds they need. These little guys can even imitate the sounds of cameras, cameras with shutters, car alarms, and even chainsaws! Now this video kind of made me want to go and get myself one of these birds as a pet. Too bad there wild:’(

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