What I did with Rev last night

[Tereza Snyder]

On Jul 4, 2007, at 5:24 PM, Judy Perry wrote:

> It may take some time.  I think I remember reading somewhere that  
> birds
> even practice their songs in their sleep.  I think the researchers
> monitored brain waves or some such thing to show that the birds would
> silently rehearse in their sleep.

Boca, my 10-year-old pet starling DID rehearse in his sleep. I raised  
him from a naked hatchling and always talked to him while I fed him.  
When he was about six weeks old,  I heard him mumbling while he was  
napping with his head tucked into his back feathers: "boca boca boca  
he's a boca, he's a boca boy..."

I'm thinking of adopting Jacque's strategy using my old laptop to  
train the juvenile starling, Bico, that the cat dragged in the other  
day.


t


ps. It is legal to keep starlings in the US. They are not native birds.


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Tereza Snyder
Califex Software, Inc.