There's a bird living in my garden that's learned to imitate DD2

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Honestly....it calls "Muuuuuum!" in DD's voice! It's got her Aussie accent and everything! We live in Australia but come from the UK....moved her 4 years ago.

I heard it and thought it was DD! Realised she wasn't calling me and there it was "Muuuuum!"

I don't know what bird it is. We have magpies which are very good at imitation locally....one on the news neighs like a horse.

I think this is clear evidence that DD calls me in that irritating way FAR too often! I've pointed it out to her as evidence of this. She's 11 and doesn't care.

Myna bird? Common pest in Australia and good at mimicking vocals.

That's hilarious. We have birds in the garden that I'm convinced have learned to imitate our cats!

probably a blackbird. We still here trimphones in the garden.

I searched for "blackbird trimphone", and it came up with a link to a blackbird mimicking and ambulance.

www.bing.com/search?q=blackbird+trimphone&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&pq=blackbird+trimpho&sc=0-17&sk=&cvid=F1854181910643E88EDDA58F1D9FCBDA

That's amazing, you have to video it

sorry about my typos.

Peaches I will definitely try!

Gt I don't think we have blackbirds in Australia. We have magpies which are excellent mimicks. Never seen a Mynah though....will google to see if they're resident in this part of Oz.

This is hilarious.

We have one round here - a long way from Aus - which sounds just like a car alarm.

fabulous!

The Lyre bird? The chainsaw imitation is particularly impressive.

Do you get tui birds in Australia? I know they come from New Zealand but I'm not sure how big the range is? They can imitate human voices exactly, it's quite freaky!

Starlings imitate other birds, noises such as phones and car alarms, and can be trained to mimic human language:

www.bto.org/our-science/projects/gbw/about/news/latest/2013/starling-mimicry

could be a galah

as common as pigeons are in uk

Kookaburra?

I know they laugh a lot but not sure if it can mimic

There used to be a starling near us that imitated our kids' bicycle bells.

My sister's parrot learned to imitate her baby crying and then proceeded to drive her mad by doing so when the baby was asleep in the living room. She would be elsewhere a d have to come back to check only to find it was the bird!

The many many starlings living near a previous house of mine learnt to imitate lambs. It was like having a flock of sheep sitting on the roof from about 4am every day in the summer.

Peackcocking That is brilliant! I appreciate it must have driven you mad but the mental image has me giggling away!

Very most likely a starling, they do this and can mimic a lot of different sounds.

Sorry, just seen you’re in Australia, so not sure if you get starlings there?!

Fantastic 😂

I was in a pet shop that had a shop parrot that perfectly mimicked the telephone. I can imagine it’s hilarious for the customers and an absolute ball ache for the staff!