Bird mimics

by Chris Bertram on March 22, 2006

The British Library has just released a “CD of bird mimicry”:http://www.bl.uk/acatalog/wildlifecds.html?EMK_LK01_pubshopx_bl_home_wildlife from around the world. Both the “Independent”:http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article352784.ece and the “Times”:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2097400,00.html have articles, and the Times has a few soundclips (I liked the German bullfinches best, though the modem-connecting blackbird is startling.)

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jephary 03.22.06 at 12:41 pm

A fellow walked down the hall outside my office this morning who sounded exactly like the bullfinch sound clip! Convergent evolution?

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Kieran Healy 03.22.06 at 1:08 pm

Convergent evolution?

No, silly. Intelligent design.

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