[Ttha-potm] "The Selfsame Song" TTHA Poem of the Month for July 2009

[Betty Cortus]

That's interesting Rosemarie.  Now I come to think of it, some birds,  
mocking birds, parrots, lyre birds, and perhaps other varieties, can  
learn to imitate the bird calls of totally different species, and  
even appear to human perceptions to be enjoying the theatricality of it.
Betty

On Jul 1, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Rosemarie Morgan wrote:

> To be absolutely scientific about it, Betty, bird songs are learned  
> just as children learn to speak. They are not genetically  
> programmed. Indeed there are dialectal variations in birdsong  
> between individual types even in the same region.
>