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PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 4:30 pm 
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Last evening, my female budgie, Winter, flew into another area of the house and got herself a little scared. All of a sudden there was a noise kind of like a car alarm, but not as loud. It came in short bursts, one after the other for about a minute. The other three birds all flew off the top of the cage and acted panic stricken. It took me a minute to locate Winter and extract her from where she landed. She seems none the worse for wear.

I have never heard that noise before. I have had two other budgies, and never heard that sound. Anyone heard anything like it?



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 6:01 pm 
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My cockatiels have a loud shriek that they sometimes emit when they see a hawk outside. It throws the rest of the flock into a panic.



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 7:34 pm 
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Wikihow...How to extract a bird?
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Jokes aside, birds just make funny sounds when spooked. It's natural.


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 9:37 pm 
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Many species do have very specific alarm calls, and in some places the wild birds have learned to pay attention and skedaddle when they hear the alarm calls of a species that's not the same as themselves. My guys certainly seem to know what that one particular call means. It's sort of like a flock call but a little bit different.



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 08, 2017 12:41 am 
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tielfan wrote:
Many species do have very specific alarm calls, and in some places the wild birds have learned to pay attention and skedaddle when they hear the alarm calls of a species that's not the same as themselves. My guys certainly seem to know what that one particular call means. It's sort of like a flock call but a little bit different.


I even heard of birds using calls of other birds to mislead them.
Can't remember what species it is. But the bird stands guard while the other species is forraging on the ground turning up all sorts of goodies. And then all of the sudden the bird makes an alarm call, but it's actually fals alarm. That way the whole flok of the different species flies away and he gets to eat all the food they dug up.
He doesn't do the fals alarm all the time, just now and again, so the other species bird really trust him when he's on guard duty...

Must

Stop


Thinking...


...brain

hurts...

...can't

remember


name


of



said




bird.


I give up. Not even google helped me! :?



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I hadn't heard of birds doing this before, but I found one that does it: the fork-tailed drongo!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... y-science/



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 12:00 am 
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tielfan wrote:
I hadn't heard of birds doing this before, but I found one that does it: the fork-tailed drongo!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... y-science/



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tielfan wrote:
I hadn't heard of birds doing this before, but I found one that does it: the fork-tailed drongo!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... y-science/



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Was that the bird you were thinking of?


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PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 3:58 pm 
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Was that the bird you were thinking of?


yes it was, only I didn't know he did it to mammals and other birds...

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