unexpected mimic

A couple of days ago I was getting my bike out of the garage when I heard a sort of subsong coming out of a tree in our front yard. It was a rattling, varied sort of subsong and it contained mimicry of Magpie and Pied Currawong. I assumed it was a Satin Bowerbird, but it didn’t seem powerful enough. When I checked the singer was a female King Parrot! — John Leonard


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  • sedgar

    My dau. reckons they are the most intelligent of the parrots she feeds Sz Sent: Wednesday, 11 November 2015 5:19 PM A couple of days ago I was getting my bike out of the garage when I heard a sort of subsong coming out of a tree in our front yard. It was a rattling, varied sort of subsong and it contained mimicry of Magpie and Pied Currawong. I assumed it was a Satin Bowerbird, but it didn’t seem powerful enough. When I checked the singer was a female King Parrot! — John Leonard


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