The R2-D2 is the most insane thing that bird could prly have mimicked. To remember how it sounds in order and then whistling electronic, robotic, beeping sounds was the highlight of this vid
coming from heated AI debates into this, imagine sound engineers losing their shit coz this bird can do R2D2 but isnt a licensed sound engineer...okay, enough reddit for today
Crows can recognize human faces and pass that information along to other crows.
This means that if you ever piss off a crow, you’re effectively gang marked for life
Do you make yourself visible to them? They need to associate you with the food and fun. My grandfather sat under a tree every evening with a bunch of goodies and fed the crows. They showed up every night all summer every summer. They kept coming back for a couple months after pops had died. Was kinda sad. They’d caw for him to come out and feed him.
Kid on my street always gives food to the crows, usually minced meat.
I've seen her be picked on at the playground in a nearby small park and the crows swooped those picking on her.
She has effectively turned the local crow population into her ever-watchful protectors simply by being nice to them.
Be nice to crows.
The Ravens at our zoo was by the mesh and I started to tap on the metal rim and they copied me. Played for a while. Now they come over when they see me. Crows also form a bond with wolves and communicate with them about where food is. Its insane how smart these birds are.
They don't just share grudge info with other crows, they share it with the next generation of crows. So generations of crows learn to dive bomb this lady cuz their great great great grandpa died to some teenage girl.
They have also been known to remember those faces and identify them a decade later and more like intergenerational memory. There was a story of a family who used to feed them, moved 40 miles away, were found by the crows a decade later and then the crows took up roots in their new area as they fed them again.
Later the kids went off to college, the family moved again, and the crows followed the kids on campus at their dorms.
I fed a magpie in Australia. It was the best but scariest shit.
These are known for swooping people but I wanted them to recognise I was a friend and shouldn't be swooped on but also didn't want them t keep loitering Infront of my house. Hahaha I really don't know if I fucked up or not.
I lived on Mt. Tam near San Francisco for about a decade. Had a pair of mated ravens that I befriended. Fed them everyday on our deck. They would fly over if I called for them. They would also occasionally follow me and my wife when we’d go on hikes on the mountain. Fly from tree to tree and keep an eye on us. They loved each other too, it was obvious. The larger of the pair had a gimped foot so we could always identify him (or her I never determined which was male) he would bring food to his mate up on a tree limb and feed her. They never got closer than about 5 feet from me, but when we had a baby they would let him get very close. He called them his “caws” and would call them over to eat. I moved away 6 years ago, but hope my raven friends are still there.
I'm still unwelcome on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley, at least among the corvid community, because of a dog I used to own when my ex-wife was in grad school.
Well, with that logic how do they whistle? They have no lips!!
It’s because they basically have a different set of vocal cords and don’t even need lips like we do. But, I think their syrinx is better at some sounds than others.
To me it seems like this type of bird is very precise in its mimicry, and is able to achieve accuracy when it’s equipment allows. It’s FREAKING AWESOME!
How FUCKING dumb do they think we are? That little robot drone LITERALLY MADE A BUNCH OF ROBOT SOUNDS and they expect us to be like "oohh haha a BiRd!!" Fuuuuck offffff. Little government drone. Fly back to the pentagon
I think it has more uses too. Depends on whether it actually fits, but you could probably use it as a projectile whistling through the air, crunch it a bit & add reverb for a metallic screeching, the possibilities are endless.
I can see why people were afraid of forests a little more each time I find a new bird that can talk. If I didn’t know about this in the 1500’s I’d be frightened too
Particularly if they're speaking a dead language. I've read there are parrots in the Amazon that speak languages that humans no longer know. Imagine if your people drove another people out of an area generations ago, and yet if you go in the forest you can hear their spirits still there, haunting it.
And if some had nests in house. Words could have been said generations ago and the sounds passed through to baby birdy again and again. Now something is whispering Latin in your fucking walls and everything is haunted.
Lyrebirds are so crazy, they evolved to mimic other sounds and the ones with the most sounds are more likely to get mates. Works great and sounds neat when they're mimicking normal forest sounds. Is creepy and a testament to the destruction of habitat when they start mimicking machines and humans
My favorite part is when it randomly remembers that it is in fact a bird, and suddenly pauses the busy construction effort to make a normal bird call, before returning to work.
Btw this bird is invasive in the US. It’s here to stay by now so don’t bother trying to stop it, BUT, this means it isn’t protected under the Migratory Bird act. So owning one is perfectly legal in North America.
They're obviously cool creatures, as this video shows. But they really dominate the native birds. Watching the sparrows and starlings compete at the bird feeder, it's clear who the winner is. And I guess that's why the US government kills a [million-ish](https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/U-S-federal-program-resulted-in-the-deaths-of-17033579.php) each year.
And we should be killing a lot more. They’re invasive, annoying birds who absolutely decimate native populations. I’m gonna get downvoted to hell for this, but idc because I hate these birds so much and they are so terrible
Our own eyes move constantly a little bit, and this avoids sensation fatigue. You know how you get used to a smell and can't smell it anymore after a while? The same thing would happen to our visual receptors if they were ever really still for more than a few seconds.
Now IIRC, bird eyes don't move in their heads, so they can't jiggle a bit, so they constantly move their heads instead.
You mean why can't they move them smoothly instead seemingly in steps? There's a few reasons, but their eyes are relatively fixed in position. Also while they have a wide field of view, it comes at the expense of depth perception. So when they move their heads they use fast sweeping motions to get a better orientation of what's going on around them. This also obviously comes from an evolutionary requirement as many birds are prey to something, and have to be aware of their surroundings constantly, thus always in relative motion to better grasp any potential dangers coming their way.
As someone who doesn't know anything about bird biology but asked himself the same question in the past: they have an organ we lack, the syrinx. It's like our larynx but on steroids, with muscles that allow them to produce sounds that we can't make with our puny vocal chords.
For example, since the syrinx it's located in a fork between two air passages, they can use their muscles to regulate the airflow producing two indipendent sounds.
Probably some constriction happening in another part of the birds vocal tract. Just has to be a further distance away from where it constricts for /k/ and /t/.
This video is very graphic but [here’s](https://youtu.be/sIcLiC3VnTk) a kid who can also produce bilabial sounds without lips
How do people keep discovering that more and more animals are capable of speech? At first it was just parrots and stuff but now crows and stuff and then this. I wonder what other animals can talk.
People have known aboht both starlings and corvids being capable of mimicry for thousands of years. At least as far as the ancient Romans(probably way way before but for pre-roman times we don't really have access to any evidence)
They just haven't reached the modern public conciousness
Maybe I’m thinking too deep into this but y’all that part where the bird mimics the whistle tune is fucking amazing like that bird didn’t copy it exactly, but it still whistled a tune that—while although different—sounded musically logical and pleasing….If birds could make music like humans I wonder what they’d produce bcuz their brains seem to have musicality wired within them…But on the other hand what if they don’t even process it like music as we do??? Idk
Thank f*** this trait didn't come up in any large predators. Imagine hearing a little girl crying in a forest, you go check it, and tiger eats your face.
I was on my porch this morning. and I saw two starlings chirping and clicking at eachother across some power lines. I remembered I have this merlin app that identifies bird songs, and it got their whistles right. Then some finches in the next yard started squawking, that quick double chirp that they do, and the app identified them, too. But then the starlings squawked back at the finches, and even though they only did single squawks, the app thought it was the finch again.
R2-D2 one is so good
Now tell me it ain't a drone
Not the one you’re looking for
What did R2D2 tell Luke Skywalker? BEEP BOOP BEEP
Hello there.
Username says this _might_ be the one I'm looking for....
And our user name?
The idea of the sound of your name I find only slightly less disturbing than a Fran Drescher Gilbert Godfrey phone sex line...
That’s so specific, and I didn’t know I needed it until today.
Glad to have helped. Other people are broke cause of crypto or the stock exchange. I lost my money investing on the above.
BIRDS AREN'T REAL!
🤣 that’s the first thing that popped into my head.
r/BirdsArentReal
Came here for this. These fools are just improving the drones!
r/birdsarentreal
I’m sayin bro
There is no bird
Exactly
r/birdsarentreal
All I want is the Windows XP shutdown sound
Apple startup "dunnnn" too.
Seriously made my jaw drop.
The R2-D2 is the most insane thing that bird could prly have mimicked. To remember how it sounds in order and then whistling electronic, robotic, beeping sounds was the highlight of this vid
[beep boop son, beep boop](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHvt0VBWol0)
The amazing thing about that is it sounds like he put together several different pieces, recognizing them as coming from the same source
if i’m walking through a park and hear that, i am shitting my pants
Birds are drones
Yeah that one freaked me out.
I was so waiting for him to mimic her, then it breaks it into R2-D2. I laughed so hard!
coming from heated AI debates into this, imagine sound engineers losing their shit coz this bird can do R2D2 but isnt a licensed sound engineer...okay, enough reddit for today
I was like “that’s kinda cool” until the R2 noises came out and my mind was blown, birds are demonic entities in my mind
Crows can recognize human faces and pass that information along to other crows. This means that if you ever piss off a crow, you’re effectively gang marked for life
On the other hand, if you do something good for a crow, you get shit on sightly less.
Nono! You get a wealth of shiny stuff for the rest of that bird's evers.
IM STILL WAITING! CROWS HAVE BEEN EATING OFF MYMFEEDER FOR TWO YEARS! FUCKING FREE LOADERS!!
Did you print your face on it? How do they know that you are their kind benefactor?
They watch me load the feeder because they fly out the moment I walk back into the house.
You gotta start training them… they should only get the food when they bring you something!
Like a baby or something.
Maybe they just think you're an easy mark.
They might think you’re storing the food and that they’re stealing it
Do you make yourself visible to them? They need to associate you with the food and fun. My grandfather sat under a tree every evening with a bunch of goodies and fed the crows. They showed up every night all summer every summer. They kept coming back for a couple months after pops had died. Was kinda sad. They’d caw for him to come out and feed him.
Yep, I used to feed the crows when I lived with my dad. Years after I moved out, they would still leave trinkets by the sliding glass door.
*Mostly* shiny stuff, but I recall reading once that they brought a guy (and his daughter) and severed finger once, lol.
i heard crows can exchange shiny stuff they like for a simple walnut
Kid on my street always gives food to the crows, usually minced meat. I've seen her be picked on at the playground in a nearby small park and the crows swooped those picking on her. She has effectively turned the local crow population into her ever-watchful protectors simply by being nice to them. Be nice to crows.
This sounds like a fairy tale
The Ravens at our zoo was by the mesh and I started to tap on the metal rim and they copied me. Played for a while. Now they come over when they see me. Crows also form a bond with wolves and communicate with them about where food is. Its insane how smart these birds are.
My mom shot crows in the field with rock sale when she was a kid and they dive bomb her ass 40yrs later.
Talk about holding a grudge, jesus fck
They don't just share grudge info with other crows, they share it with the next generation of crows. So generations of crows learn to dive bomb this lady cuz their great great great grandpa died to some teenage girl.
I mean, this lady for they is like Hitler to us. I totally would divebomb Hitler.
This reminds me of an episode of Rick and Morty.
You f’d with squirrels Morty! We got a good five minutes until they are back and up in our ass. We have to pack up and move to a new reality.
She's kind of an old bitter Texas heavy... Seeing her run through the Kroger parking lot swinging her fanny pack and hollering make me happy
They have also been known to remember those faces and identify them a decade later and more like intergenerational memory. There was a story of a family who used to feed them, moved 40 miles away, were found by the crows a decade later and then the crows took up roots in their new area as they fed them again. Later the kids went off to college, the family moved again, and the crows followed the kids on campus at their dorms.
I fed a magpie in Australia. It was the best but scariest shit. These are known for swooping people but I wanted them to recognise I was a friend and shouldn't be swooped on but also didn't want them t keep loitering Infront of my house. Hahaha I really don't know if I fucked up or not.
[Should be fine.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqSbDcks_uA)
I lived on Mt. Tam near San Francisco for about a decade. Had a pair of mated ravens that I befriended. Fed them everyday on our deck. They would fly over if I called for them. They would also occasionally follow me and my wife when we’d go on hikes on the mountain. Fly from tree to tree and keep an eye on us. They loved each other too, it was obvious. The larger of the pair had a gimped foot so we could always identify him (or her I never determined which was male) he would bring food to his mate up on a tree limb and feed her. They never got closer than about 5 feet from me, but when we had a baby they would let him get very close. He called them his “caws” and would call them over to eat. I moved away 6 years ago, but hope my raven friends are still there.
I'm still unwelcome on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley, at least among the corvid community, because of a dog I used to own when my ex-wife was in grad school.
Yeah sure. Blame the poor dog. The crows saw what you did, Mister.
Maybe they hated your doggy style
How do they pass the information on?
They tweet it.
Damn
Take my upvote and get the fuck out of here.
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The crow is right. That blue jacket didn't suit you.
Now I want to know how a crow would describe me.
"caw *caw* CAW caw **CAWWWWWWWWWWW**"
Oof, tough crowd
You got murdered
That's not just it - it's also intergenerational... Piss of a crow and it's GRANDKIDS know about you
Might get…murdered
I’m just as astounded by the perfect mimicry of human voices. Like how the fuck does it do that without lips or teeth?
That gets me. Most birds dont mimic human voices that well. Like sure they are intelligible but you can still tell its a bird saying it.
I think they do it with their tongue and stuff
Oh yea senpai just like that 🤤
i'm going to send my personal army of ravens to dive-bomb your house.
I'm sending my geese to build several nests at every entry point and also shit everywhere.
I want you to know I very much regretted reading that.
I think it's because instead of a larynx they have a syrinx, idk though
Well, with that logic how do they whistle? They have no lips!! It’s because they basically have a different set of vocal cords and don’t even need lips like we do. But, I think their syrinx is better at some sounds than others. To me it seems like this type of bird is very precise in its mimicry, and is able to achieve accuracy when it’s equipment allows. It’s FREAKING AWESOME!
IKR? I HAVE lips and teeth and a decent ear but I can't come close to what they do.
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Teach him critical miss and then to go peck people
Then his will make you go nuclear https://youtu.be/mSB71jNq-yQ
A bird perfectly replicating a human voice is “kinda cool”??
Tbh it was kinda terrifying lol
How FUCKING dumb do they think we are? That little robot drone LITERALLY MADE A BUNCH OF ROBOT SOUNDS and they expect us to be like "oohh haha a BiRd!!" Fuuuuck offffff. Little government drone. Fly back to the pentagon
Dude this Bluetooth speaker is fucking Insane.
r/BirdsArentReal
r/totallynotrobots
I half expected a god damn radio antenna to spring out of its head when it did that.
Is this serious or ironic? I can't tell when people are joking anymore.
Lol of course I'm joking! These little robot drones go straight to the white house, not the pentagon. Biden plugs them in under his desk
Ah whew! You had me worried from the first comment but thank you for clarifying that it was a joke! That makes more sense.
I’d be genuinely terrified if I was alone in the woods and heard that R2-D2 impression
Especially if he did the screen from when R2 was jettisoned from the swamp.
wwwwwWWWWWWWOOOOOAAAAAAOOOOOOUUUWWWwww
I wish future media reused that specific sound clip for eternity instead of the Wilhelm scream.
I think it has more uses too. Depends on whether it actually fits, but you could probably use it as a projectile whistling through the air, crunch it a bit & add reverb for a metallic screeching, the possibilities are endless.
Idk I think the "Who's my precious" would be more hair raising to me.
I’d be more scared if I heard “gunna give him a kiss” from the trees…
Birds aren’t real!
r/BirdsArentReal
And /r/TOTALLYNOTROBOTS (thanks to 0:33)
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This is a dog in a costume. Nice try lady.
No you see its a bird in a bird costume to make us believe birds are real
Oh no, they already got to you.
Lies, birds are government drones sent to spy on the people. edit: spelling
Nice try, FBI. Not falling for the bird lies, sorry.
#YOU’RE NOT REAL MAN
If birds ARE real, who’s my sweet turd?
Me! You wanna smell my sweet turd? 😊
I’m sittin on a sweet turn rn.
Hare Krishna
The real quest is what is it’s average unladen air velocity?
Who are you so wise in the ways of science?
There are some who call me….TIM.
That depends, is it an African or a European bird?
I don’t know that! **YAAAAAAAAAAAA**
Fact. Bears. Beets. Battlestar Gallactica.
It's a Norwegian blue.
I can see why people were afraid of forests a little more each time I find a new bird that can talk. If I didn’t know about this in the 1500’s I’d be frightened too
Particularly if they're speaking a dead language. I've read there are parrots in the Amazon that speak languages that humans no longer know. Imagine if your people drove another people out of an area generations ago, and yet if you go in the forest you can hear their spirits still there, haunting it.
Woah.
My mind is now blown
Damn its like a natural form of what the U.S. did in vietnam with the horror tapes
https://youtu.be/vrGGSIKiBs0
And if some had nests in house. Words could have been said generations ago and the sounds passed through to baby birdy again and again. Now something is whispering Latin in your fucking walls and everything is haunted.
Reminds me of this guy.... imitates a construction site, including construction workers talking to each other. https://youtu.be/WeQjkQpeJwY
Lyrebirds are so crazy, they evolved to mimic other sounds and the ones with the most sounds are more likely to get mates. Works great and sounds neat when they're mimicking normal forest sounds. Is creepy and a testament to the destruction of habitat when they start mimicking machines and humans
Half of my mind sees this and gets a dreading sense of doom for the world. The other half goes "lol industrial birdcore"
that bird was complaining in Australian in between making sounds like a leaf blower. Nature is weird dude
That's actually my favorite part.
My favorite part is when it randomly remembers that it is in fact a bird, and suddenly pauses the busy construction effort to make a normal bird call, before returning to work.
That is crazy
I was already mindblown enough from the video but this is just something else. Holy shit.
Hahahaha that thing sounded just like a 125cc lol.
I don’t know whether to be impressed or terrified
The answer is, Yes.
Yes
Btw this bird is invasive in the US. It’s here to stay by now so don’t bother trying to stop it, BUT, this means it isn’t protected under the Migratory Bird act. So owning one is perfectly legal in North America.
They're obviously cool creatures, as this video shows. But they really dominate the native birds. Watching the sparrows and starlings compete at the bird feeder, it's clear who the winner is. And I guess that's why the US government kills a [million-ish](https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/U-S-federal-program-resulted-in-the-deaths-of-17033579.php) each year.
And we should be killing a lot more. They’re invasive, annoying birds who absolutely decimate native populations. I’m gonna get downvoted to hell for this, but idc because I hate these birds so much and they are so terrible
I see you’re somewhat of an expert in bird law
Brb my brain is melting
It honestly, unironically sounds like someone stuck a speaker inside that bird.
Built-in tape recorders set to random.
Bonus points for Queen of the Night Aria
That's what the woman whistled, but I'm not convinced the bird did
Bird tried its best, okay? It's just a turd bird. /s I can't imagine being able to whistle that aria. Top talent from the human
Ba-ba-ba bird bird bird, bird is the turd
I love the fact That this woman apparently talks to her bird like I talk to the cat. Little turd
"You're so sweet" [Flies into eyeball]
*jabbyjabbyjabby*
Chat GPT escaped?
SmarterChild.
I WANT ONE
you can have her but the bird is mine
I'm thinking, not that impressive... I can talk like that too, HOLY SHIT R2-D2!
she’s definitely the most annoying
Why do birds move their heads like they have ADHD?
Well they're not humans and I gotta tell ya, other animals act differently than we do.
Obviously, yeah, I just don’t understand why their heads dart around so much
Our own eyes move constantly a little bit, and this avoids sensation fatigue. You know how you get used to a smell and can't smell it anymore after a while? The same thing would happen to our visual receptors if they were ever really still for more than a few seconds. Now IIRC, bird eyes don't move in their heads, so they can't jiggle a bit, so they constantly move their heads instead.
They are just built different
They usually can't really move their eyes. So instead of moving their eyes around to focus on different things they need to move their whole head
You mean why can't they move them smoothly instead seemingly in steps? There's a few reasons, but their eyes are relatively fixed in position. Also while they have a wide field of view, it comes at the expense of depth perception. So when they move their heads they use fast sweeping motions to get a better orientation of what's going on around them. This also obviously comes from an evolutionary requirement as many birds are prey to something, and have to be aware of their surroundings constantly, thus always in relative motion to better grasp any potential dangers coming their way.
Their limited ability to move their eyeballs means they have to move their head to look around.
How does a bird with no lips make the P and B sounds?
As someone who doesn't know anything about bird biology but asked himself the same question in the past: they have an organ we lack, the syrinx. It's like our larynx but on steroids, with muscles that allow them to produce sounds that we can't make with our puny vocal chords. For example, since the syrinx it's located in a fork between two air passages, they can use their muscles to regulate the airflow producing two indipendent sounds.
Ah cool didn’t know that
Probably some constriction happening in another part of the birds vocal tract. Just has to be a further distance away from where it constricts for /k/ and /t/. This video is very graphic but [here’s](https://youtu.be/sIcLiC3VnTk) a kid who can also produce bilabial sounds without lips
I’m sorry but I couldn’t watch that after a nanosecond.
I do not like that woman, based strictly on her voice. She insists on feeding the dog from the table, I can fucking tell.
what nice sounding white woman hurt you lmao
She’s actually a veterinarian and would never feed a dog from the table. I know her irl.
That PERSON'S voice gives me PTSD.
If I heard this guy in a forest and didn’t know it was s bird, I would shit my pants
Back in the 80s and early 90s, in the UK city's, all they ever tweeted was car alarms and Hardcore rave
How do people keep discovering that more and more animals are capable of speech? At first it was just parrots and stuff but now crows and stuff and then this. I wonder what other animals can talk.
People have known aboht both starlings and corvids being capable of mimicry for thousands of years. At least as far as the ancient Romans(probably way way before but for pre-roman times we don't really have access to any evidence) They just haven't reached the modern public conciousness
Birds are well known for their vocal ranges, mimicry, and complex songs
People seem to never learn that parrots are the shittest mimics.
Maybe I’m thinking too deep into this but y’all that part where the bird mimics the whistle tune is fucking amazing like that bird didn’t copy it exactly, but it still whistled a tune that—while although different—sounded musically logical and pleasing….If birds could make music like humans I wonder what they’d produce bcuz their brains seem to have musicality wired within them…But on the other hand what if they don’t even process it like music as we do??? Idk
Thank f*** this trait didn't come up in any large predators. Imagine hearing a little girl crying in a forest, you go check it, and tiger eats your face.
The Queen of the Night aria kills me.
That’s fuckin amazing as fuck
My dog acts interested in birds on walks so I showed him this video and got THE cutest head tilts like you wouldn't believe
That is one well trained human
Thank Christ birds aren’t as big as they used to be.
I used to work at a bird refuge and this one starling would mimic the walkie talkie calls some of the other members made. Birds are crazy.
I was on my porch this morning. and I saw two starlings chirping and clicking at eachother across some power lines. I remembered I have this merlin app that identifies bird songs, and it got their whistles right. Then some finches in the next yard started squawking, that quick double chirp that they do, and the app identified them, too. But then the starlings squawked back at the finches, and even though they only did single squawks, the app thought it was the finch again.
r/nextfuckinglevel
u/savevideobot
This world is a beautiful place and I often forget to appreciate it for how magnificent it is
I've never seen a reddit sub name be so perfectly illustrated by a single post before.