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I spent two summers in an apartment in San Francisco that was near the nest of what I assume was a nightingale. Every night around midnight it would start sing
by marklacey 6y ago
I spent two summers in an apartment in San Francisco that was near the nest of what I assume was a nightingale.
Every night around midnight it would start singing. It would loop through maybe 8 songs. Some of them sounded very much like the local environment. For example one song was pretty much identical to sirens that I would periodically hear.
It would last for an hour or two each night. I don’t know where the bird went the rest of the year. That was almost ten years ago and I still miss falling asleep to that.
- gloftus 6y agoWe have those in Boston, I always thought they were mockingbirds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhiyxmWI95Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhiyxmWI95Q
- marklacey 6y agoYes you’re right. Judging by Wikipedia it seems likely it was a northern mockingbird.
- Cerium 6y agoIn San Jose we have birds that imitate car alarms. I don't like them at all.
- marklacey 6y agoYes that’s one thing this bird would do. The whole cycle of two or three repetitive sounds from an alarm before moving to another song.
- mcv 6y agoAges ago, probably during the age of Nokia phones, I heard about some birds (blackbirds I think) adopting popular Nokia ringtones as their call.
- adammunich 6y agoReally, I need to hear this!
- NamTaf 6y agoThe Lyrebird from Australia is probably the best at this. It can imitate just about anything - car alarms, other birdsongs, camera shutters, gunshots, etc. etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSB71jNq-yQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSB71jNq-yQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyrebird#Vocalizations_and_mimicry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyrebird#Vocalizations_and_mim...
- smileypete 6y ago>In San Jose we have birds that imitate car alarms. I don't like them at all. There's also the 'mower bird' (male ruffled grouse) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0obByQW23k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0obByQW23k
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