A silly question. A few days ago I observed a very vocal bird with impressive vocal variety. It was rapidly switching from one tune to the next. After sometime I realized that the bird might be mimicking the 6-8 tone car alarm (the one that rapidly changes). Is this my imagination, or are birds really know to mimic/compete with car alarms?
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You would be amazed at the vocal abilities of the lyrebird. A car alarm is easy for them; they can mimic much more complicated sounds.
Here's a snippet from a David Attenborough BBC documentary on YouTube (which includes the car alarm example, among others). They are so skilled, it's hard not to think this video is fake.
answered Jun 9, 2013 at 14:04
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$\begingroup$ Thanks, that bird does imitate car alarm, but I was really surprised at the chainsaw sound $\endgroup$ Jun 10, 2013 at 10:00