Or the sound bite used in the film was recently recorded from Canberra. (Not
especially likely but weirder things have happened in inserting bird calls
into films, by the "foley artist"). Those sounds are usually inserted later,
not by being genuinely in the scene. Otherwise why would you mostly hear
just ravens and foxes whenever the scene is an English cemetery.
Philip
-----Original Message-----
From: David Nicholls
Sent: Friday, 13 January, 2017 12:34 PM
To: Canberra birds
Subject: Blackbird songs: morphic resonance or genetic
library?
For some reason I've been listening to blackbird songs since the 1950s.
Some song patterns last a long time, others seem to change with the latest
blackbird fashion.
A few years ago I noticed a new pattern I had never heard before, which
(transliterated) sounds a bit like "I'm a chilli-pop birdie" :-)
I was vaguely watching a re-run of the movie "The Queen" (Helen Mirren) the
other night, and a blackbird was singing in the background (purportedly at
Buckingham Palace, but doubtless some other stately home - towards the end
of the film, when the Queen and Tony Blair were walking in the palace
grounds). It used exactly the same song phrase.
Since it's unlikely blackbirds have flown from Britain to Canberra in the
time since the movie was made (2006) it seems to be a case of Sheldrake's
morphic resonance. Either that, or - more likely - there's a large library
of songs genetically embedded in all blackbirds, and this song happened to
be used in the UK and here about the same time.
Curious coincidence, either way.
DN
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