![]() ![]() A wizened starling finds his place in the mob by singing long runs of mashed-up noise that prove his vast experience. A young starling sends mad chatter to her close-by kin to feel where the safe world starts and stops. The male starling sings his long coupling song to his mate while she pecks for food. There are many in a starling’s life: the little tribe of the monogamous pair, that of the clutch family, the flock in the field, the mob coming home from the neighboring fields to roost together overnight. We’re not sure why starlings engage in such behavior, but we think it’s because this breed is hardwired to sing to its tribes. This will then be repeated with the maddening obsessiveness of an electronica concert. You’ll hear Mozart, your own voice, the white noise of the house you live in, plus the recesses of starling instinct: TWINK-LE-bizeeet!-TWINK-“hi! how are you!”- chackerchackerchackerchacker-LIT-TLE-bweet! bweet! Purrrup!-LIT-TLE- LIT-“hi! how are you”-TLE, TWIN-KLE, LIT-TLE- STAAAAAAR! The “Queen of the Night” aria sung in a screech worthy of a Bee Gee.Ī few days after that, your line of Mozart will come from the birdcage as a barely recognizable string of filched sounds, all sung together in a line so arrhythmic it’s catchy. And when it does spit back whatever Mozart you’ve fed it, it will be on a starling’s zany terms: a theme from the “Haffner” Symphony punctuated with guttural warbles, or the famous Adagio from his Clarinet Concerto mixed into an uncanny interpretation of your dishwasher. You’ll have to come back whistling for a day or a week, confirming the sound’s place in the world where the bird perches. Do not expect that when you whistle “Twinkle, twinkle” you’ll hear a “little star” immediately in return. Note how it nods along with your tuneful body as if to say, Yes, yes, I have it.īut a starling is no parrot. Though a caged starling is chatty during the day and downright garrulous at night, the moment it locks in on your Mozartean whistle the little bird will only blink, aiming its entire soundless self toward the music coming from you. ![]() It might bob its dark head back and forth at the line you’ve sent out-the dotted pops of “Papagena, Papageno” or the crystalline shards of the Adagio and Rondo for Glass Harmonica. It will arch its starling neck, bending toward your puckered lips. If it knows humans as creatures that sing and are sung to, the bird will shut its beak. (55) U.S.A.Whistle a little Mozart to a starling in a cage. 2/4 meter (23) 4/4 meter (40) 6/8 meter (33) Animals (27) Articles (84) Baby Songs (20) Children's Songs from England (36) Children's songs in English (70) Chords: 2 chords (47) Chords: 3 chords (39) Christmas articles (26) Christmas lyrics (156) Christmas songs in English (40) Copyrighted (21) England (48) Español: Canciones Infantiles (17) Español: Villancicos y Canciones de Navidad (21) Europe (108) famous quotes (28) Folk Song Lyrics (43) Folk Song Lyrics: American (28) glockenspiel or xylophone for children's songs (43) glockenspiel or xylophone for Christmas songs (30) guitar chords for Christmas songs (43) guitar chords for kids songs (62) Karaoke (122) Lyrics in English (346) Lyrics in Spanish (29) Lyrics to Children's Songs (226) Lyrics to Pop Songs and Film Songs (29) Major (97) North America (49) Nursery Rhymes (85) original composition of Christmas music in public domain (40) PDF Lyrics (419) PDF Sheet music (203) piano tutorials for children's songs (48) piano tutorials for Christmas (44) Preschoolers (64) páginas en español (54) Sing-Along (37) Spain (21) U.K.
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