We’re not sure why starlings engage in such behavior, but we think it’s because this breed is hardwired to sing to its tribes. This will then be repeated with the maddening obsessiveness of an electronica concert.
TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE ONE PLUS
You’ll hear Mozart, your own voice, the white noise of the house you live in, plus the recesses of starling instinct: TWINK-LE-bizeeet!-TWINK-“hi! how are you!”- chackerchackerchackerchacker-LIT-TLE-bweet! bweet! Purrrup!-LIT-TLE- LIT-“hi! how are you”-TLE, TWIN-KLE, LIT-TLE- STAAAAAAR! The “Queen of the Night” aria sung in a screech worthy of a Bee Gee.Ī few days after that, your line of Mozart will come from the birdcage as a barely recognizable string of filched sounds, all sung together in a line so arrhythmic it’s catchy. And when it does spit back whatever Mozart you’ve fed it, it will be on a starling’s zany terms: a theme from the “Haffner” Symphony punctuated with guttural warbles, or the famous Adagio from his Clarinet Concerto mixed into an uncanny interpretation of your dishwasher. You’ll have to come back whistling for a day or a week, confirming the sound’s place in the world where the bird perches. Do not expect that when you whistle “Twinkle, twinkle” you’ll hear a “little star” immediately in return. Note how it nods along with your tuneful body as if to say, Yes, yes, I have it.īut a starling is no parrot. Though a caged starling is chatty during the day and downright garrulous at night, the moment it locks in on your Mozartean whistle the little bird will only blink, aiming its entire soundless self toward the music coming from you. It might bob its dark head back and forth at the line you’ve sent out-the dotted pops of “Papagena, Papageno” or the crystalline shards of the Adagio and Rondo for Glass Harmonica. It will arch its starling neck, bending toward your puckered lips. If it knows humans as creatures that sing and are sung to, the bird will shut its beak.
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