LOL Think I’ll just admire birds outside in the trees.
Couldn’t bear the noise and chewing up things.
Those birds are pretty and entertaining, though.
Love to see parrots talk. They’re so cute.
I think mockingbirds live like 2-3 years outside and up to 10 in captivity from what I’ve read.
Love to hear them ‘sing’. They really do imitate so many different birds- and sometimes even ‘things’.
Had a mocker build a nest outside my bedroom window last Spring..woke me up with her and/or her mate’s singing each morning.
Kinda glad when the little ones fledged and they all went away. :)
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Peaches tries valiantly to mimic.
But lovebirds are “not good mimics”.
(Understatement to the extreme.)
Female lovebirds are better mimics than males, males are more docile and easily handled.
Peaches says her name sorta, and a few other words.
But, being that lovebirds are terrible mimics, it is “ scratchy beaky noise that is oddly articulate in form.”
The local mockingbird would sing, pop into the air to display his wings, then sing some more.
He showed off his brood every time too.
We had to play sounds for them as well.
Somewhere there are a family of mockingbirds who mimic nextel ringtones.