Magpie mimicry

["Anne & Roger A. Green" <>]

I was amazed, a couple of days ago, to hear a new item in "our" magpie's 
repertoire. The bird is hand reared and 18 month-old (female, I think) 
and now only rarely does her telephone and ambulence siren imitations 
but this latest one was a distinct, human "Hello!", in exactly the tone 
that I use for her, a possum, the dog and, probably, visitors to our 
plant nursery!
I find this particularly interesting because I thought a bird of her age 
would have stopped adding to its vocal range. Just goes to show....
Cheers
Anne


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