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Starlings are excellent mimics and can be trained to talk. There are =20= quite a few video clips on You Tube of talking starlings. One of my =20 favorites is Weewoo: http://youtube.com/results?search_query=3Dweewoo&search=3DSearch Sharon Stiteler www.birdchick.com Minneapolis, MN On Mar 12, 2007, at 6:13 PM, David A. Cahlander wrote: > European Starlings can talk, here is a link to a website with =20 > Starling=92s recorded in human speech mimicking. I think this is = legit. > > > Talking Starlings (with clips) > http://www.starlingcentral.net/starlingmedia.htm > > --Apple-Mail-14-15315431 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=WINDOWS-1252 <HTML><BODY style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; = -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: = rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: = normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: = normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; = -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; = -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; = font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; = -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; = -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; = font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; = -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; = -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Starlings are = excellent mimics and can be trained to talk.=A0 There are quite a few = video clips on You Tube of talking starlings.=A0 One of my favorites is = Weewoo:</DIV><DIV><BR class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A = href=3D"http://youtube.com/results?search_query=3Dweewoo&search=3DSearch">= http://youtube.com/results?search_query=3Dweewoo&search=3DSearch</A></= DIV><DIV><BR class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> <BR><DIV> = <SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; = font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; = -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; = -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Sharon = Stiteler</DIV><DIV>www.birdchick.com</DIV><DIV>Minneapolis, = MN</DIV><DIV><BR class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Mar = 12, 2007, at 6:13 PM, David A. Cahlander wrote:</DIV><BR = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type=3D"cite"><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; = font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; = -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; = -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><FONT = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"2"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">European Starlings can = talk, here is a link to a website with Starling=92s recorded in human = speech mimicking. I think this is = legit.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV>=A0</DIV><DIV><FONT size=3D"2"><BR = style=3D"font-size: 10px; "><FONT size=3D"3">Talking Starlings (with = clips)<BR></FONT><A = href=3D"http://www.starlingcentral.net/starlingmedia.htm"><FONT = size=3D"3"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, = 238); -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; = ">http://www.starlingcentral.net/starlingmedia.htm</SPAN></FONT></A></FONT= ></DIV><DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial" size=3D"2"></FONT>=A0</DIV><BR = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY><= /HTML>= --Apple-Mail-14-15315431--