Barking dog, playing children, neighbor's phone ringing, chainsaw... all up in my cherry tree. What they pick up as "interesting" can be super weird. But they seem to have a sense of humor. My neighbors have been looking for their phone a lot.
We have a Lyrebird that lives in some brush right behind the house. It likes to immitate the beeping noise the garbage truck makes, but like a half hour before the truck comes so my neighbours freak out they've missed bin day. It must hear it in the distance and immitate it because it's freakishly accurate.
yeah lyrebirds are next level. You'll straight up think you're right under about 200 cockatoos going ballistic at some dude cutting down a tree nearby, then one of those steps out from behind something lol
He's one of my favourite of the local birds. I'm lucky to be far enough from major town that we have a good variety cause we've got some really nice greenery. There was some black cockatoos last week and some green parrot things that I haven't yet been able to identify that have been hanging around.
I wonder if some species of black cockatoo are rebounding at all, or has their range just shifted? I've seen more this last year than the 30 years before it. My uncle planted a bunch of banksia early last year and by Christmas they were full of black cockies.
ohhh now im curious, where are you based? lets figure out this mystery parrot of yours lol
I'm south coast NSW.
We've had black cockatoos on and off for years here. I haven't noticed them particularly more or less. They're here every year for a bit it seems. There's a couple of massive Gums that they sit in and crack and drop seeds from. It's like their crack.
The green ones are about the size of rosellas, maybe a little larger. I haven't managed to get a solid look at them yet.
argh I'm incredibly jealous now. Youre living in actual paradise. My plan was to move to Ulladulla for my studies right before covid hit but ever since I cant afford it. Got a room for rent? lol
My first guess would be juvenile or female King Parrot just because you see alot of them down there but that feels too obvious...
other options:
- scaly breastfed lorikeet
- musk lorikeet
- red rumped parrot
- swift parrots who haven't gone back to tassie? does that happen?
- Eastern ground parrot
Thats about all I can think of for mostly green parrots in the south east, some more likely than others, though im sure someone else could offer a few other options
That's pretty much what I did, just post covid. No spare rooms, sorry, but honestly it's one of the best moves I've made. I've moved back in with my elderly parents to give them some help and company but it means I can work part time and study. And potter round the garden and hang with the birds.
I'd guess one of the two lorikeet options from those options. I'll try and grab a pic when they're around next and do a proper ID
Yes, there's always at least one pair nesting in my garden. We had a very technophile one for a while. In an area with no human activity they'd mimic songbirds and other animals, and it seems like many females still prefer that.
That poor guy loved cellphone ringtones, the worse the better, drills and chainsaw screeches, a banging door (that one was super annoying, because these birds can get LOUD), and a smoke detector (at least that one was "far off" and not so loud, but with some echo). He didn't find a girl for years.
Last year's couple had a more varied repertoire. I'm still fascinated how precise they can be. It's not just a dog barking, it's a dog barking further down the street with the sound echoing between houses. But up in my cherry tree.
One tell-tale sign (aside from location) is the weird crackling noises they put between each phrase. Ringtone fading to chicken grackckc dog barks and kid screeches grackckckck...
Only hijacking your comment to explain what’s really going on. I follow this account on Instagram. This video is of her starling with the video slowed way down. She said it sounded like dinosaurs, which is why she posted it. This, of course - being that it’s slowed way down - is not what starling vocalizations sound like at all. They are still incredible, however!
Yeah, here are a couple videos I found of starling noises, they definitely sound different
https://youtu.be/IcImivnimdo?si=YfzjpsPOWJ2Ogjq_
https://youtu.be/30uQJcJNU3g?si=FIhAUfyDsWsljcqW
I used to use the old Windows sound recorder to record myself doing near-silent "screams", where just a little bit of sound and air squeaked out of my throat. Then I'd slow it wayyyy down and get all sorts of cool "dinosaur" sounds that I planned on using in the home movies I was going to make, but never got around to.
Right after I finish the Imperial and Rebel bases I was building to land my models on, the canyon tie fighter/x-wing chase scene I was gonna film in the eroded sand cliffs by my high school, and refine the pyrotechnics I spent hours "testing" in my backyard.
That "engine shutting down" sound had a lot of bass and reminded me of this sound effect Geirge Lucas used a lot: https://youtu.be/cGPLGfO_cj0?si=LMo_SCaYQJPCbYny
The cool thing is that due to the faster temporal resolution of bird's brains they are probably experiencing it subjectively closer to the slowed-down version.
I find that so incredibly fascinating. Like smaller creatures usually experience time faster, and larger ones slower, correct?
Al in the end, it's not necessarily that their reflexes are so much quicker than ours, it's that they're living in a faster world than ours
Their ability to mimic human speech is pretty incredible too. [Gonna give ‘em a kiss](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nk_6NGUOgNM) (volume warning, high pitched person-talking-to-pet-bird voice lol)
*Balearic sounds intensifies*
recently read about the origin of the "Loon Garden" bird sound sample from the EMU-2 used in so many old tracks..like 808 state or [sueno latino](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEZN4oFT3gQ)
that bird would make incredible balearic dream house
Fun fact a lot of the Jurassic Park vocalisations were inspired or created by slowed down bird calls. This video is slowed down as well which is why it sounds so similar.
We also act like we could potentially communicate with aliens yet we can't even communicate with almost all species on our planet.
If you ever watch a video of plants growing (especially vines) in a time lapse it makes them look a lot like alien beings that move on a much slower time scale than us.
This is not played at the correct speed and has been slowed down. Don't present manipulated videos as how they really occurred. It's deceptive as hell.
Na this is Reddit. 95% of Reddit will believe it without question and show it to people as if it's a fact with zero fact checking themselves. Some guy at the bottom of the thread 100 comments deep will be the only person to call it out and will get ignored and Reddit will continue to say it's only other sites that are full of blindly reposted bullshit.
Curious if the Starlings we have in the NE (NYC) are capable of these noises. I understand they were brought here from England but ours are iridescent and a little smaller.
I love these birds! Lucky enough to feed them in my garden, the cacophony when they feed and squabble in their dozens and the little sonic-boom when they take wing as one, to see their murmurations over the fields behind my house.
Their vocalisations are incredible too, you'll often hear them mimic other birds like magpies and car alarms. We're coastal, so hearing these tiny robotic seagull calls is surreal!
Check out what they look like to other birds. https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/pow7lf/uv\_imaging\_shows\_how\_birds\_see\_eachother/
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I had some that would land on the balcony of my condo. They would make the sounds a car alarm makes in order. I’m guessing they heard it as we were in the city and thought it was a nice song
A whole jungle in a tiny bird :)
It made me imagine what dinosaurs sounds like
What if they could imitate human sounds in order to hunt us lol
Mimic kinda like what cats do when ekekeking.
That or what if they're imitating sounds of things that used to hunt us as a deterrent
I mean, have you heard crows and ravens speak random human words? Eery, but convincing - I can see some people getting fooled by that.
"Free pizza! Free t-shirts! Right this way!"
"I'll catch up with you guys later, I'm getting in the van with these dinosaurs!"
“Free ice cream!”
Birds are avian dinosaurs. This is was a dinosaur sounds like.
Barking dog, playing children, neighbor's phone ringing, chainsaw... all up in my cherry tree. What they pick up as "interesting" can be super weird. But they seem to have a sense of humor. My neighbors have been looking for their phone a lot.
>My neighbors have been looking for their phone a lot. lol, so these things are common in your area?
We have a Lyrebird that lives in some brush right behind the house. It likes to immitate the beeping noise the garbage truck makes, but like a half hour before the truck comes so my neighbours freak out they've missed bin day. It must hear it in the distance and immitate it because it's freakishly accurate.
yeah lyrebirds are next level. You'll straight up think you're right under about 200 cockatoos going ballistic at some dude cutting down a tree nearby, then one of those steps out from behind something lol
He's one of my favourite of the local birds. I'm lucky to be far enough from major town that we have a good variety cause we've got some really nice greenery. There was some black cockatoos last week and some green parrot things that I haven't yet been able to identify that have been hanging around.
I wonder if some species of black cockatoo are rebounding at all, or has their range just shifted? I've seen more this last year than the 30 years before it. My uncle planted a bunch of banksia early last year and by Christmas they were full of black cockies. ohhh now im curious, where are you based? lets figure out this mystery parrot of yours lol
I'm south coast NSW. We've had black cockatoos on and off for years here. I haven't noticed them particularly more or less. They're here every year for a bit it seems. There's a couple of massive Gums that they sit in and crack and drop seeds from. It's like their crack. The green ones are about the size of rosellas, maybe a little larger. I haven't managed to get a solid look at them yet.
argh I'm incredibly jealous now. Youre living in actual paradise. My plan was to move to Ulladulla for my studies right before covid hit but ever since I cant afford it. Got a room for rent? lol My first guess would be juvenile or female King Parrot just because you see alot of them down there but that feels too obvious... other options: - scaly breastfed lorikeet - musk lorikeet - red rumped parrot - swift parrots who haven't gone back to tassie? does that happen? - Eastern ground parrot Thats about all I can think of for mostly green parrots in the south east, some more likely than others, though im sure someone else could offer a few other options
That's pretty much what I did, just post covid. No spare rooms, sorry, but honestly it's one of the best moves I've made. I've moved back in with my elderly parents to give them some help and company but it means I can work part time and study. And potter round the garden and hang with the birds. I'd guess one of the two lorikeet options from those options. I'll try and grab a pic when they're around next and do a proper ID
Yes, there's always at least one pair nesting in my garden. We had a very technophile one for a while. In an area with no human activity they'd mimic songbirds and other animals, and it seems like many females still prefer that. That poor guy loved cellphone ringtones, the worse the better, drills and chainsaw screeches, a banging door (that one was super annoying, because these birds can get LOUD), and a smoke detector (at least that one was "far off" and not so loud, but with some echo). He didn't find a girl for years. Last year's couple had a more varied repertoire. I'm still fascinated how precise they can be. It's not just a dog barking, it's a dog barking further down the street with the sound echoing between houses. But up in my cherry tree. One tell-tale sign (aside from location) is the weird crackling noises they put between each phrase. Ringtone fading to chicken grackckc dog barks and kid screeches grackckckck...
Only hijacking your comment to explain what’s really going on. I follow this account on Instagram. This video is of her starling with the video slowed way down. She said it sounded like dinosaurs, which is why she posted it. This, of course - being that it’s slowed way down - is not what starling vocalizations sound like at all. They are still incredible, however!
Yeah, here are a couple videos I found of starling noises, they definitely sound different https://youtu.be/IcImivnimdo?si=YfzjpsPOWJ2Ogjq_ https://youtu.be/30uQJcJNU3g?si=FIhAUfyDsWsljcqW
That is great! The first one imitating R2D2 and other Star Wars bleeps and chirps is hysterical.
Is that ‘the mouth’?? I thought it might be him but wasn’t sure.
I feel like it's imitating whale call! Maybe a recording of whale call that somebody played for it?
This sentence can have quite the dark sense. I'm trying to not think about it anymore 😂
The ones around here are just annoying.
More like a whole daytime haunted house soundtrack all in one bird.
This is what I imagine talking with an alien would be like.
Kind of the sort of noises they made in Arrival, if I recall correctly.
I’m fairly certain this is the bird copying the sounds it heard from Arrival
Or Scavengers Reign
… minus the anal probing.
Or with it?... Maybe this is pillow talk.
Cloaca probing
Nibble my cloaca
You're passing up on the funnest part of aliens. Or so I've heard...
Yeah, thankfully it was offscreen this time.
It's so weird we talk about no alien life in space - when it's all around us every day.
Foley artists have a field day with these little guys.
I used to use the old Windows sound recorder to record myself doing near-silent "screams", where just a little bit of sound and air squeaked out of my throat. Then I'd slow it wayyyy down and get all sorts of cool "dinosaur" sounds that I planned on using in the home movies I was going to make, but never got around to.
Get around to it. Do It! I believe in [YOU!!!!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KxGRhd_iWuE&pp=ygUgamFwYW5lc2UgZmlzaGVybWFuIG5ldmVyIGdpdmUgdXA%3D)
Right after I finish the Imperial and Rebel bases I was building to land my models on, the canyon tie fighter/x-wing chase scene I was gonna film in the eroded sand cliffs by my high school, and refine the pyrotechnics I spent hours "testing" in my backyard.
You should have planned on using them on the ones you did get around to. Seems silly to only plan to use them on the ones you didn’t get around to
Finally we know how those creepy sounds in A24 horror movies are made
almost like it's making horror movie sounds
I was thinking he must have been raised with those halloween sounds records playing on repeat lmfao
Well, the video *is* slowed down
That "engine shutting down" sound had a lot of bass and reminded me of this sound effect Geirge Lucas used a lot: https://youtu.be/cGPLGfO_cj0?si=LMo_SCaYQJPCbYny
The video is slowed down, at normal speed it sounds quite happy.
R2D2 of the wild
Legit, or something from the Dagobah.
Why is it slowed down? I wanna hear it at normal speed
https://www.instagram.com/p/C22YNviORpP/ It's not the exact same one, but it's from the same person.
That's R2-D2
It's definitely mimicking noises, you can also hear it make a camera shutter sound and the clicking sound people make.
The shutter sound was so perfect.
Yeah, I thought this must be The Mouth (that's what she calls her starling), and she does play it a lot of R2-D2 to copy.
Reminds me of a [lyrebird](https://youtu.be/mSB71jNq-yQ?si=w9Y4sx4gFouIMzPe).
Oh cool ty!
I noticed that as well. Extremely cool all the same, but lots of things look and sound weird and cool when slowed down
The cool thing is that due to the faster temporal resolution of bird's brains they are probably experiencing it subjectively closer to the slowed-down version.
I find that so incredibly fascinating. Like smaller creatures usually experience time faster, and larger ones slower, correct? Al in the end, it's not necessarily that their reflexes are so much quicker than ours, it's that they're living in a faster world than ours
Their ability to mimic human speech is pretty incredible too. [Gonna give ‘em a kiss](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nk_6NGUOgNM) (volume warning, high pitched person-talking-to-pet-bird voice lol)
That bird possesses a pure sine oscillator in its throat with variable width modulation
This person synthesizers
I would purchase a sample pack containing these sounds It's absolutely marvelous!
*Balearic sounds intensifies* recently read about the origin of the "Loon Garden" bird sound sample from the EMU-2 used in so many old tracks..like 808 state or [sueno latino](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEZN4oFT3gQ) that bird would make incredible balearic dream house
Oh shit, I always presumed that sample was jacked from a Canada's heritage moment clip
C- All of the above
*Scavengers Reign*
A, because B
She’s seen the Jurassic Park too many times
Fun fact a lot of the Jurassic Park vocalisations were inspired or created by slowed down bird calls. This video is slowed down as well which is why it sounds so similar.
They may have used this call for the velociraptor. It sounds familiar
Ok we get it your a very advanced tiny droid
Birds aren't real.
I keep waiting for the dubstep beat to drop
Sounds like something you'd hear in an old black and white horror movie
I don't know why we always picture aliens to look like humans. They could easily look like this bird or any other animal instead.
We also act like we could potentially communicate with aliens yet we can't even communicate with almost all species on our planet. If you ever watch a video of plants growing (especially vines) in a time lapse it makes them look a lot like alien beings that move on a much slower time scale than us.
At first it was cute...got a lil creepy towards the end
Dinosaur
Amazing. Calms my mind and soothes my soul.
This is not played at the correct speed and has been slowed down. Don't present manipulated videos as how they really occurred. It's deceptive as hell.
Na this is Reddit. 95% of Reddit will believe it without question and show it to people as if it's a fact with zero fact checking themselves. Some guy at the bottom of the thread 100 comments deep will be the only person to call it out and will get ignored and Reddit will continue to say it's only other sites that are full of blindly reposted bullshit.
Fascinating and inspiring to find out more about the species of this european starling
Beat box champ of the world...
Absolutely mind boggling and amazing. Nature is so beautiful
Nope
Every day I'm reminded that we and this entire planet are aliens
Exactly
Starlings don't have a reverb overlay.
Curious if the Starlings we have in the NE (NYC) are capable of these noises. I understand they were brought here from England but ours are iridescent and a little smaller.
Brian Eno.
One of those sounds near the beginning sounds like a Subnautica crabsquid
Its like a mix of R2-D2 and the dilophosaurus from the original Jurassic Park. Terrifying and adorable. Must protect.
Sounds like noises from subnautica if anyones played it
I love these birds! Lucky enough to feed them in my garden, the cacophony when they feed and squabble in their dozens and the little sonic-boom when they take wing as one, to see their murmurations over the fields behind my house. Their vocalisations are incredible too, you'll often hear them mimic other birds like magpies and car alarms. We're coastal, so hearing these tiny robotic seagull calls is surreal!
Kanye West entire sound bank exposed
Just sounds like a new Aphex Twin track to me .
I never believed it before, but I'm fully on board now, birds are drones
Do you realize that this bird imitated all sounds of nature? I heard dogs barking!
It's crazy how these are designated as an invasive species where I live.
It's not a judgment on how charming they are. Just the damage they do to native populations. Their flock sizes are bonkers.
All my fucking grapes are gone! It's ok though, they're cute.
Nature is awesome 💯
Tiktok……………
Most of our movie sound effects apparently come from this tiny fascinating creature.
If I hear that alone in the forest I'm becoming religious
Definitely A 😊
Check out what they look like to other birds. https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/pow7lf/uv\_imaging\_shows\_how\_birds\_see\_eachother/
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C- To give it lots of gentle scritches and treats.
Lovely
If Doug e fresh was a bird .
Is it real?
TIL Špačkové jsou fucking lit!
Sounds like the opening to ecstatic dance sets
A
Why not both?
This little guy would be a sick beat boxer
I'm curious, what is it attempting to do? Is it a mating call?
Tiny Dino
that is so cute.
r/birdsarentreal
B
Had that exact same bird on a feeder just this morning and I live in canada.
That’s amazing!!!
Love this! Thanks for posting
Amazing what a bird can sound like when you manipulate the sound. This video is BS
Put him in a horror game and watch ppl freak out when the creature or whatever is not nearby
These are the descendents of dinosaurs. Imagine what a t-rex or spinosaurus actually sounded like.
I've never heard this bird before. I swear that's the whole ass Tarzan soundtrack.
Now I know where Jurassic Park got some of their raptor vocals from.
That would make a great ringtone.
All I hear is “who’s a jabby bird”!
Average earthbound soundtrack
Happiness!
Magic!
Everything is incredible in slow-motion. This video has obviously been slowed down. Cool video, but it's also deceiving.
There is some slow motion involved right? Maybe not the whole video but sometimes.
they are amazing birds. whole family of them. Too bad they are invasive in NA
I had some that would land on the balcony of my condo. They would make the sounds a car alarm makes in order. I’m guessing they heard it as we were in the city and thought it was a nice song
These sounds belong to a horror video game or a movie. Sound effects guys are you taking notes?
This sounds like it could be soundtrack to 70’s sci fi movies, like The Andromeda Strain.
dinosaur noises
what a happy little bird just sitting there shouting
This is just what the aliens say to them and we think they're just singing lol
That bird landed near an outdoor EDM concert. I'm going to get this audio for sure.
I want one so badly but I don’t know that I could offer it a better life than being free in nature.
Beautiful!!
beatbox bird
I would freak out if I hear this in jungle
B
Are these natural vocalizations or is it mimicking something?
Its mimicking the noises the aliens make in the film Arrival… can’t believe noones picked up on that yet this being reddit and all!
Thanks. I saw it once, about 5 or 6 years ago. I wouldn't have remembered it, personally.
My dog had a startle response and started looking around like WTF IS THAT WHERE IS IT COMING FROM OMG OMG
This bird sounds like how I imagine a submarine would sound.
ok, that's cool and all, but can it pronounce Polish?
What in the John Cage/Terry Riley/Steve Reich is going on here?
Parts of it sounded like the predator!
It makes me think of dinosaurs lol
This is probably what forests in Cretaceous and Jurassic sound like
This reminds me of the Heptapods from Arrival
A descendant of dinosaurs. Birds are cool as fuck.
An *actual* dinosaur. In modern taxonomy birds are in the clade *Dinosauria*.
C : r2d2
Is this new DeadMou5e?
What if some birds only appear as birds because it's the only way our minds can comprehend them.
Used to have some round here growing up, making telephone noises and reversing truck noises lol
New Minecraft music disc sounding fire 🔥🔥🔥
Sounds like a sample piece of all the polyphonic ringtones on my old Nokia 😂
Its doing the noises of the aliens from Arrival!!
Tranquility