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I was out on kinder (well, the boggy bit between Rushup Edge and Jacobs Ladder, so NOT Kinder) yesterday and came across a solitary crow sat on a fence post. It was making a noise I'd never heard before - sort of like water tinkling from a metal can. I knew they were great mimics, but I'd never heard something so..unbirdlike coming from a big black bird. Both beautiful and ethereal.



PS. Good job it wasn't around when Mrs T went in the black goo up to her thigh, or it would have learned a whole other set of noises

In reply to toad:

Maybe it had eaten someone's mobile?..

In reply to toad:
There's many a time I've heard a weird call, grabbed the binoculars and gone looking for the 'exotic' bird making the call to find a solitary crow.

Took me six months to pin the local 'mountain-duck quack' down to the same creatures! - They are very shy birds where I live.

In reply to toad:

Then there's the Bloop, the collapsed ice shelf that sounds like an enormous deep-sea monster almost the size of the Eiffel Tower.

In reply to felt:


Ours do a 'bLOop-bLOop-bLOop', emphasis sort of on the capitalised letters.

Sounds like very loud bubbles rising in a big glass bottle.

In reply to toad:

Do Rooks have the same copying quirk?

In reply to veteye:

Never heard a rook mimicking, but they are very smart birds. I remember in the late 90s/early 00s all the starlings around my way were singing "nokia". Now they just do car alarms

In reply to davidbeynon:

In my first years at school a friend had a pet Rook.We were all jealous.

In reply to veteye:

Not sure about Rooks , but Starlings are great mimics too