Noisy Miners are accomplished mimics of mobile phones at Berri Caravan
Park (SA) and something, I suspect Spiney Cheeked H'eaters, dfo a good
job of imitating our ordinary (Telstra) phone - enough to make life very
confusing for me, anyway!
Anne
Judie Peet wrote:
> SOMETHING DIFFERENT: While we were searching for birds for the
> Birdcount, we clearly heard an Olive-backed Oriole calling.
> Couldn't find it though. Then a Noisy Miner flew in, perched and
> called. Watching it with binoculars to be certain that it was not a
> Yellow-throated, I saw it open its beak and call "Orry-orry-ole".
> Pointed this out to my friend who was disbelieving at first, but could
> then hear that the oriole call was coming from the beak of a Noisy
> Miner. The miner continued with that call a few more times, then sang
> some different songs. Can someone tell me if they usually mimic other
> birds? Or have I previously missed a very oriole-ish part of their
> normal repertoire? Regards, Judie Peet
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