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I don't get it
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My partner is like this with birds xD
me: "Oh look, a starling!"
him: "Yep, it's a bird."
(though to be fair, he's getting better at it :P)
It's the Merlin app, isn't it? They were all just "birds" to me before I started identifying their calls... and it's a fast pipeline from there to borderline "birdwatching". What has my life become?
I love Merlin :) It helped me learn to recognise so many local birdsongs!
To be fair, almost no one is excited to see a starling.
Id be very sad to see a single starling. They always travel in groups.
I like the way they run around in groups while combing an area for food :) Also they are really pretty from close up, kinda iridescent, with lots of little white spots!
Used a bird call app over in western Melbourne and it insisted we could hear a starling. Bloody things are everywhere in England and I don’t know one when i hear it.
Tbh starlings have an extremely varied repertoire. When I'm passing near a singing one here in Scotland, for the several minutes that I'm in hearing range, it never repeats the same tune. Pretty amazing!