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It's a good time to remind birders that they also are extremely good at = mimicking other birds. I've heard them do the Red-tailed Hawk scream, = Killdeer, Phoebe, Least Flycatcher and others. Be careful when birding = by ear, it just might be a Starling. Rick Hoyme ----- Original Message -----=20 From: David A. Cahlander<mailto:da...@cahlander.com>=20 To: mou-...@cbs.umn.edu<mailto:mou-...@cbs.umn.edu>=20 Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 6:13 PM Subject: [mou] Talking Starlings (from Mark Alt) European Starlings can talk, here is a link to a website with = Starling's recorded in human speech mimicking. I think this is legit. Talking Starlings (with clips) = http://www.starlingcentral.net/starlingmedia.htm<http://www.starlingcentr= al.net/starlingmedia.htm> ------=_NextPart_000_0018_01C764E3.AA9C9210 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type = content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2900.3059" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY id=3DMailContainerBody=20 style=3D"PADDING-LEFT: 10px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; = COLOR: #000000; BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; PADDING-TOP: 15px; FONT-STYLE: = normal; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; = BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; TEXT-DECORATION: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: = none"=20 bgColor=3D#ffffff leftMargin=3D0 topMargin=3D0 acc_role=3D"text" = CanvasTabStop=3D"true"=20 name=3D"Compose message area"><!--[gte IE 5]><?xml:namespace = prefix=3D"v" /><?xml:namespace prefix=3D"o" /><![endif]--> <DIV> <DIV>It's a good time to remind birders that they also are extremely = good at=20 mimicking other birds. I've heard them do the Red-tailed Hawk scream, = Killdeer,=20 Phoebe, Least Flycatcher and others. Be careful when birding by ear, it = just=20 might be a Starling.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Rick Hoyme</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=3Dltr=20 style=3D"PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>From:</B> <A = title=3Dmailto:da...@cahlander.com=20 href=3D"mailto:da...@cahlander.com">David A. Cahlander</A> </DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=3Dmailto:mou-...@cbs.umn.edu=20 href=3D"mailto:mou-...@cbs.umn.edu">mou-...@cbs.umn.edu</A> </DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, March 12, 2007 = 6:13=20 PM</DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [mou] Talking = Starlings (from=20 Mark Alt)</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>European Starlings can talk, here is = a link to a=20 website with Starling's recorded in human speech mimicking. I think = this is=20 legit.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2><BR><FONT size=3D3>Talking Starlings (with = clips)<BR></FONT><A=20 title=3Dhttp://www.starlingcentral.net/starlingmedia.htm=20 href=3D"http://www.starlingcentral.net/starlingmedia.htm"><FONT=20 = size=3D3>http://www.starlingcentral.net/starlingmedia.htm</FONT></A></FON= T></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial=20 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0018_01C764E3.AA9C9210--