Bird confuses police with mimicry (1 Viewer)

[Kits]

Bird mimicking police siren confuses officers

The call was so similar to the two-tone siren that officers thought their cars were faulty.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Xenospiza]

Bird mimicking police siren confuses officers

The call was so similar to the two-tone siren that officers thought their cars were faulty.

www.bbc.co.uk

When I worked in Harlow there was a Blackbird that convincly mimicked the sound of a forklift truck reversing.

 

[Ignatius]

Hah, you want to hear the amazing sounds grackles in the USA can produce by mimicking sounds other birds and humans produce. Apparently not as well as the eponymous mockingbird, but I alsways found them quite disconcerting.