Taken on 02/05/2016
Bip the 2 months old Bulbul sits outside in a Benjamin Ficus. He eats flower petals and nibbles new shots on all trees and bushes even the poisoned Wisteria . He has a wide range of words. His morning and evening song is a kind of resume of what happened that day or morning. He tells who came visiting and if one listen carefully one can recognize the screaming of many kind of bird in his song, Green Parakeets who shout ,the visiting angry grown up Bulbul NYP who thinks my roof garden is his territory! (This was another Bulbul of same kind that I grew from it was few days old ,it is now 6 years old and wild, but comes when I call it!) You can hear small friendly Honey birds, even Crow screaming that he repeats in his songs. All this other bird sounds are mixed in between his own small pouring curly sweet sounds and it is clearly to her which bird was aggressive and which he liked. I have recorded lots of his singing and the songs are never identical. The days I spend next to him I recognize in his singing the different birds that I saw and heard which came visiting earlier the same day. So Bulbul singing is not something that comes on automatic. He has a name for me that he shouts loudly if he can't find me and a name for flies and another for fruit and he can say no, if I offer him a snack he doesn't like! He doesn't like the flies that has metallic colors.He pulls his head back and say sternly oegh oegh! He has a very sweet little baby like sound when he wants to sit and to make it cozy under my ear,it sounds like a high Yyyyyhhh YYYYhhhh. He has a strong memory and remember all kind of things he has seen before.He remember distances between branches how many times to flap his wings between 2 points, so he can do it in darkness.
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