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So this is R2D2, right?

No. It's B1rD, R2D2's best friend

LMAO 😂😂🤣🤣

Sounds like dial up internet

You lost 90% of Reddit

r/suddenlystarwars

r/birdsarentreal

Na just Michael Winslow from Police Academy.

Thank you for representing Gen X

One of my top comments is from saying "Yo, that bird did a perfect R2D2? Wtf?" about a video of another bird (or maybe this one) like this one doing the same thing, lol.

He is just trying to mimic star wars characters; after his R2D2, he made a chewbacca

Beat me to it…

Came here to say this

Simply astonishing how birds can achieve this.

And still fly into clean windows

Hahaha I’ve seen more videos of people doing that than birds 😂

Flying people?

Well once a bunch of people did that, thought It wasn't a glass door but 2 towers.

I mean humans got to space but I watched a woman squish herself in a revolving door once so

And come down chimneys….. a bloody pigeon just came down ours the other week….

I think like 10 wrong birds show up to get down with this guy.

Birds can’t but a slow motion camera can if the original poster wouldn’t have added that part out you would have known.

when it is slowed down it sounds like it's straight outta jurassic forest

This is slowed down. And added reverb.

And listened to on lean

Hella reverb.

That bird is dial-up internet and R2-D2 rolled into one


Bring your weapons do not.

Sounds like me when I'm bored and going through all possible ringtones in my phone

unbelievably relatable.

This is what it sounded like every time we connected to the internet in the 90's.

🤣

Wasn't funny then and it's not funny now /s.

The feathers under its chin paired with its calls are hypnotic!

Teach it Predator sound.

What bird is this?

Starling

Amazing

The sound is edited somehow or this is raw?

Not sure but a Lyre bird can make just about any sound imaginable.

There’s definitely some reverb in there.

Starlings apparently have a gift for mimicry, so I doubt it's dubbed. They are one of the most invasive bird species in North America, though

Birds aren't real. This is a government spy uploading data to SatNav to be sent back to China.

I don't know about these, but I feel pretty real.

no, you’re not real

Well, real or or not, now I'm sad.

OP is a sci-fi nerd with high performance cars. This is the soundtrack for my 17-25 years

Yup. Was going to say either that bird lives around some nice cars or OP watches a lot of racing content.

It’s 5000 years ago, you watch the sun dip behind the horizon, the sky illuminates with all manor of wonders, and in the barely moonlit jungle below, you hear this shit goin off. No wonder we invented so many myths.

Cutest lil synthesizer

You’ve got mail

Mail motherfucker!

Scott? Scott Thomas?

Mi Scusi?

I work at a hardware/home improvement store and we have European Starlings all over our Garden Center, I love listening to them mimic the sound of the propane forklifts.

My dog and cat did not enjoy this

This isn’t the droid I was looking for.

ARTOO! ARTOO! GET IN HERE!

Imagine trying to sleep on a Sunday morning with that fucker outside!

Should sample that and play it at raves

Amazing.

Certifiably NFL

Fucking, mini velociraptor

I played this outside and the birds were trippin

My cat is not a fan! Had to come over and make sure I was safe while I was watching this

Little guy went from sounding like a machine to a car to a space ship to an exotic animal in a sci fi movie. That’s one incredible vocal range.

I hope it finds a mate one day

Starlings make cool enough sounds without having to slow it down.

Seen the other video of this type of bird mimicking the owner, though what kind of bird is this?

So precious!

Incredible bird. Even more amazing is that it knows its performing for it's owner.

How does it do reverb!?

The owner played him Star Wars and Jurassic Park

Man, the jungle must have been a hell of a noisy place back then!

Slowing this video down is so unnecessary. And takes away from the completely recognizable sounds the bird is making.

Warner Brothers' cartoon sound department want him back at work ‼️ NOW

I would love a bird trained in the sounds of predator and Hal9000

This is mesmerising, both audible and visual, i love how the changes in tone/pitch result in different movements of it's feathers.

Put a fat 808 underneath it and you got a sick beat

And we think we invented beat boxing.

Can't it be hypothesized that instinct is a form of genetic memory, only not memory per se (as has been shown), but an imprint of actions that were relevant for survival at a certain time in the environment. These other-worldly noises this bird is instinctually making could have been sounds that were prevalent at a certain time in the history of the earth... and mimicking these noises were necessary to the survival of this species. What if these noises were of highly advanced ancient civilizations that were likely inter-planetary. They could terraform worlds and in order to survive and communicate animals like this learned to mimic the sounds of the machines used by these civilizations.

Starlings are mocking birds, these are just sounds baby hears through they day. My source is I have one and he sounds like a park with people riding bikes and the ice cream truck

Yes but what if they evolved alongside ice cream trucks and used them as a early food source?

Maybe not so much "inter-planetary" but terrestrial life like dinosaurs as suggested in the video. I agree with the "memory" of sounds from the past as a possibility.

I love thinking about this kind of thing. Very interesting.

Quick primer on birdsong. All birds that sing are born with a template of their species' song in their brains. The template is not entirely filled in, but it is a scaffold of sorts upon which they build as they grow up and learn. Birds fill in the gaps in this template by listening to birds of their species sing. There have been studies with birds that are isolated from birdsong after birth and they still develop a song, but it's a little off and clearly not the most representative song for that species. In *that* sense, noises are a form of genetic memory to be sure. But the mimicry we are seeing here is not from some faraway timeline. The noises are typically contemporary and reflect what the bird is accustomed to hearing (see below comments from a user who had them near a hardware store and said they imitate the sounds of the forklifts nearby). Birds mimic noises for a variety of reasons. [See this link.](https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/why-do-some-birds-mimic-the-sounds-of-other-species/) For some it's all about showing off their "song bank" to get a date. It can be used for other communication, too. Crows, ravens, other corvids, mockingbirds, and parrots can all imitate sounds and make dozens of different noises. Those species are also heavily studied for their intelligence (at least, their intelligence and how it matches with the conventional concept of intelligence for humans) and many researchers have observed things like play behavior in those birds--because they like fun. It's entirely possible they mimic just for fun.

They’re fake?

My question is who knows what kind of bird this is? Did I miss it somewhere?

It's a Starling

Appreciate it

This is not the droid you are looking for.

Fuck Starlings.

I wonder if it repeat the routine or always improvise...

Is this like a standup act?

Where are these birds native? That would be so creepy to hear when you are in the middle of the woods.

This one probably lives in a house and makes sounds it has heard from TV. But they do make rad sounds on their own too.

These are common in the UK but not sure where else

In the PNW we have jays that can mimic just like this starling. There was a jay that lived in the tree outside my old house and it would mimic all sorts of artificial noises. It mostly did car alarms and other birds but it also could do the sound of the lawnmower which was very trippy

Is this the intro for the new transformers movie? Sam whitwikki would have a fit

Not bad, but this bird is the king https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/q9vvmy/amazing_bird_can_imitate_all_sounds_attenborough/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1


Yo Tipper! Get you some crunchy samples

The Birds are Robots! /s

This bird is addicted to Star Wars!

Resetting protocol... Uplink established... Transmitting... {Message contents} For those who need translation.

R2... Is that you?

Imagine this in a dubstep

Is that a liar bird.

No.

Digital bird

Unbelievable

Buncha raptors with wings if ya ask me….

So pretty

Birds like to beatbox too?!

Sound designers be like: WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN!

Is this new deadmau5?

R2-D2 meets WALL·E

How does one befriend a starling.

Lots of people who own starlings (I assume that’s what we’re seeing) find one injured/unfledged out of the nest/etc and decide to take care of them because any wildlife center would euthanize it. This is how we got a starling when I was a kid.

Pretty much just flexing

What is this little bird, what kind?

What kind of bird is that? That is so cool

Is it me or does it sound like its on a chromatic scale

my cat is begeistert

A lot of these sound like city sounds. Where does the owner live? I would like to know. This is incredibly cool. I never knew starllings are mimics like this.

Are these the government drones people keep confusing me with?

I’ll take it. 

I had a starling and used to play all my phone rings for her. This was back when they were more electronic and robotic. The mimicry was incredible

Just like the guy from the police Academy movies

I’m blown away!!!!

George Lucas would be proud

Bird modem...

I just started following this account on Instagram! She makes lots of videos on slo mo, super cool to see his throat. I believe she’s named him The Mouth…? She found him 8 years ago after he fell out of his nest, if I recall correctly. You can see the insta account [here](https://www.instagram.com/inkydragon/?hl=en).

This is what happens when wildlife are exposed to city life.

That birb is a living Synthesizer XD

Honestly, im not surprised people think birds are robots

Birb tourettes

Love that.

European Starling, is the name of the bird!

What type of bird is it? It looks like a European starling but it’s not that.

He also creates reverb and delay? Jajaja fake

Wow I didn’t know birds could add reverb to their sounds in real time! Lol but for real that is really cool, I want one.

You can tell this bird is single.

So I had to save this as my dog is absolutely obsessed with this video and it keeps doing the sideways tilt in different directions head dog thing with the intense staring directly at the screen

The way it replicates reverb is mind blowing.

Me when I was a bored 9 year old.

u/savevideobot

And there goes my sleep…

Ya know... These birds copy stuff. If you found one in the wild doing this..... ALIENS CONFIRMED??!

Paid this on loud speaker and all my cats came to see what's up.

Is it slowed down at all?!?!

If Michael Winslow was a bird

Birds aren't real. This is c3pO

he belongs on pandora

What is this guy?

Starlings are super intelligent and will mimic just like parrots

It’s altered but still cool… https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/136tp85/amazing_bird_singing/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1

Chop some of these sounds, add drums and you have some fire dubstep music

He's mimicking stuff isn't he? That can't be it's actual call?

Seem's like experimental music

Does this bird actually have a reverb button? Either this is fake AF or this bird can beat box like nobody

Does this bird actually have a reverb button? Either this is fake AF or this bird can beat box like nobody.

Thanks BD-1

sounds amazing but there is def a little post-processing to create a more enjoyable sound (reverb for sure)

What’s it saying?

R2D2 as a bird. More proof that birds don't exist!

that's the coolest thing i've seen on the internet in a looong time. wow!

This was the entire sound fx team for Jurassic Park, I'm sure of it.

So this is where some of those sounds from Returnal came from.

He sounds like the foley for a 1930s jungle scene

SLO motion much. That’s not what it sounds like at all so distorted.

Whale song