Jays immitate sounds.
Parrots immitate human voices. Mocking birds immitate other birds, or make up their own tunes. Are they corvids, too? They don’t resemble them physically. But there is definitely some sort of a function going on upstairs, which is a similarity.
Mynas and starlings are great mimics, as well. I’ve heard starlings doing roosters and frogs.
There’s a small bird endemic to the Pacific Northwest...the wrentit. They hang out with Song Sparrows quite a bit, and I’ve heard them mimicking their calls.
Mocking birds immitate other birds, or make up their own tunes.
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I was walking in a parking lot one day and heard a car alarm go off,
Whoop whoop, dee-doo dee-doo, screech screech (annoying).
I looked around for the car making the noise but all were quiet. I looked up in a nearby tree and there was a Mocking bird. I watched as he sang the car alarm again. It was the strangest thing, like from the Twilight Zone. Are they hyper-intelligent beings from another planet?