Photos from open sources Birds can imitate the sound of almost all musical instruments, for example, trills of a tiger astrild and a white-bellied green dove very reminiscent of the sounds of a flute, the singing of the Australian a diamond amadine is an oboe, and a goat’s voice that sounds in the night similar to bassoon sounds.
In South America, a rare bird, the graglarium Ridgeley, whose strange scaring screams can easily be confused with a dog barking. Scientists discovered this species only in 1997; according to ornithologists, copying barking sounds, the bird drives away from its territory of enemies.
Australian lyrebirds, mockingbirds and lanes can mimic the most various sounds – singing of other birds, creaking doors, meowing cats. And the thinnest musical ear, according to scientists, is male nightingale. They are able to remember and reproduce not just a melody, and a whole piece of music containing rich sound scale.
Singing of birds depends on their diet, for example, owners of thin, long and graceful beaks eat insects. This form is not convenient only for catching bugs, but also allows birds to publish unique in its beauty sounds.
There’s a story that inspired Mozart’s condescension, when he listened to his hand starling singing. When the composer wrote a concert for piano No. 21, the bird repeated a fragment from it, replacing sharps in a musical piece with flats. Mozart could not not to admit that the starling reproduced the melody more harmoniously, and right there corrected his piece of music.
People, in turn, have been trying to imitate from time immemorial finding it a bit of a game on unique musical instrument. Among them, the most gifted may imitate dozens, or even hundreds of bird voices, and even so it is plausible that the birds flock to their makeshift draft whistles.
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