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Plus, so many birds will improvise their songs, pulling parts of other birds' songs into their songs. And many will even outright imitate other birds (not only
by OneLeggedCat 5y ago
Plus, so many birds will improvise their songs, pulling parts of other birds' songs into their songs. And many will even outright imitate other birds (not only parrots, but corvids and some others). Many amateur birders like me often cannot tell imitations from the real ones.
- somishere 5y agoI tested the app on one of our more interesting mimics (tooth billed bowerbird, endemic to the area) .. without great results. It is however very successful in identifying much of the morning cacophony here. This is for far north Queensland, Australia where we have a fairly decent array of resident songbirds.
- jfk13 5y agoA couple of years ago, my wife had been practising a particular piece of music on the violin for some time in preparation for an exam; after a while, she noticed that the blackbird in our garden began using the opening few bars as part of its song.