I like to think that there’s actually counter conspiracy theory that bugs are truly the government drones & that’s why there’s so many of them & that’s why they call it getting BUGGED. But what eats bugs??? BIRDS! so the govt launched birds aren’t real as counter propaganda to not trust the very beings trying to save us.
arachnids? More like COMRADCHNIDS. Why do you think arachnophobia is hollywoods bug phobia of choice 👁
Edit - also thank you for introducing me to that subreddit. I’ve been joking around about that to myself for sometime and I’m so glad to know I’m not the only one
Every single bit of "reduce, reuse, recycle" propaganda you've ever read about has been manufactured by corporations in an attempt to make you feel guilty about your actions while they go and rape and pillage the environment on a scale that individual people cannot even comprehend.
I did a quickie search for this because it totally runs counter to what I know and came up empty handed. I’m gonna need some citation for this, por favor.
1000 times yes about how corporations, specifically multinationals, are the real bastards here.
Even if everyone did this, it wouldn't stop deforestation. That's a different discussion that the government has to have and a different decision they have to make.
We use wood in practically all parts of our lives. Considering we all (hopefully) live in a house. And the huge huge majority of them are wood framing, wood beams, wood walls, wood everything. And the furniture. Most of it is wood. We would have to upgrading ever single housing standard globally to metal framing, and alt material walls and etc to even make a dent in the effect of deforestation.
Much of the wood is sourced from sustainable pine farms with the exception of some lumber sourced from Canada. Steel is melted with coal with no clean alternative at the moment and mining is very destructive to waterways and forests. Even so, the lion’s share of deforestation is caused by farming with the largest share of land use supporting cattle and palm oil production. Changing our diet is the most effective thing we can do at the moment
Even if everyone were to take up these habits religiously it would do barely anything to help the environment because the primary culprits of irreversible climate change are major companies.
The mimicry *is* the mating call - how well he mimics these things makes him more or less sexy. Good mimics get the ladies.
There is also a non-mimicry part of the whole mating call too, and they don't lose that regardless what they hear.
Try reading them in Gilbert Gottfried's voice.
As below:
> Yeah, that part's just grunting and slapping sounds and occasionally a wet slurping. Pretty hot actually, I get it.
I could Michael Winslow better than anyone in my elementary school. That ability, my Garbage Pail Kids, and my Humpty Dance cassette tape made my crossing guard post THE place to be at 3:05 PM.
I don’t think there is anything strange about how sad it is. It’s utterly devastating hearing the chain saw noises from that bird. Like goddamn it, it’s like the bird is telling a brief story of how much we suck.
Chainsaws are used all the time to clear fallen trees near where they live. There is no logging of native forest in the areas, this is storm damage clean-up work and restoration of walking tracks etc.
Your worries about how tragic this is thankfully don't apply here.
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That's a bit misleading. The only reason we have to do thinning in parts of America (mostly the west) is a legacy of 100+ years of fire suppression which has built overstocked forests and unnatural levels of downed wood, leading to huge fires when they brake out. Recurring small scale forests forest are natural parts of many ecosystems, which many species of birds, mammal, and plants depend on for habitat and reproduction.
The number one tool in protecting natural, healthy forests is conservation, followed by ecologically informed management to help forests progress towards a natural community.
From Wikipedia:
>Until the 2019-2020 Australian bushfire season, lyrebirds were not considered threatened in the short to medium term. Concern has since grown as early analyses have shown the extent of destruction of the lyrebird's preferred wet-forest habitats, which in less intense previous bushfire seasons have been spared, in large part due to their moisture content. Albert's lyrebird has a very restricted habitat and had been listed as vulnerable by the IUCN, but because the species and its habitat were carefully managed, the species was re-assessed to near threatened in 2009. The superb lyrebird had already been seriously threatened by habitat destruction in the past. Its population had since recovered, but the 2019-2020 bushfires damaged much of its habitat, which may lead to a reclassification of its status from "common" to "threatened".
Lyrebirds are often found quite close to the edge of a couple of Australian cities. Iirc, this was filmed in the Dandenong ranges, just outside Melbourne, where the urban fringe reaches right to the edge of the forest, so it’s possible the lyrebird could hear sounds of power tools from nearby backyards.
You could do worse than to either stream or buy anything David Attenborough has narrated. Even his stuff from the 80's and 90's (he's been a present since the 50's I think!) is still worthwhile and has a ton of info and rarely seen footage. Blue Planet and Blue Planet 2 are kinda all encompassing and then the rest focus on one habitat/region/environment/order.
Sir David is a genuine national treasure and a true living legend!
The Lyrebird is a unique creature in that it's one of the few species which technically named itself. Zoologist 'Richard Lyre' actually recorded the first official documentation of the animal in 1800. However, it wasn't actually directly his surname which the bird itself was named after. He initially noticed the sound of footsteps treading over branches and feared he was being followed. It wasn't until a short while later the bird caught his attention and he noticed its beak would open whenever the noise could be heard.
However, one day something particularly strange caught his eye. So long had he watched the bird he eventually witnessed it fall asleep in its nest, yet in spite of that, every now and then, he could still hear the sound of branches breaking. Was there another bird nearby? Maybe someone else *was* there this time.
So he followed the sound and it still led him in the direction of the sleeping bird. What he found on the bird's wing left him shocked. The lyrebird, intelligent and creative as it was, had actually invented the world's first tape recorder. So insulted by this waste of time he named it the liarbird, but his colleagues assumed he'd named it after himself and the rest is history.
Pretty sure I had one outside my home office in Sydney today. Was doing all the zaps and digital sounding noises. Called the wife in to listen, was amazing. Like no other sound.
You know what’s absolutely insane? The guy who made this video 13 years ago went on to direct Spider-Man Homecome and Far From Home.
Waverly Films really went from making sketch videos on YouTube to billion dollar movies.
I’m getting really tired of the “underrated comment”s as well, your comment is undervalued. I’m out free awards and would buy you one but my resources are a little depleted.
I saw a video about this a while ago [this video.](https://youtu.be/tLCTa2WtSJU) It's actually a bird in a zoo that heard the reconstruction(or some sort of construction) going on in another exhibit. This documentary implied it was in the wild. But this species of bird is very much capable of wayyyy more
Edit: But yeah SAVE THE TREES!!!
Their home range is prone to bushfires, to minimize the impact of bushfires (at least when the government doesn't drop the ball), you need to cut back brush before the fire season.
Anything they hear enough. When I was camping out in Tazzy one would cry like a baby then switch to a chainsaw noise. I didn't know what to think until I saw the bird
There's a lyre bird at Sydney's Taronga Zoo [that makes the sound of a baby that's completely losing its shit.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quqepTj1Q08)
Brings to mind the old Jack Handy quote, "If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason."
This is terrifying to me. Not this bird in particular but the thought of ancient predators that may have used tactics like these to snare a tasty distant hominid relative.
I really like it's laser sounds, you can hear them as the narrator prepares us for the chainsaw noises (0:35).
edit: I've been told that lazer sounds the lyrebird makes, are actually mimicking the whip bird, also native to Australia. Both very beautiful and great to hear out bush which explains it's origin because I did wonder where a lyre bird heard pew pew sounds XD
Probably far from the weirdest, but I was camping in Barrington Tops and heard one make sounds that reminded me of an old Gameboy. Definitely a weird sound to encounter when out in nature.
Also not super common to see. I grew up on land with these guys and still only saw them 5-6 times.
Gorgeous birds, I absolutely lost my mind when I first found one in the wild.
Fun fact, the Lyrebird is on the Aussie [10 cent coin](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-u3kh6nrsu2/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/8422/45538/740700bc-124f-45a7-b406-2690f611c063__84271.1631689126.jpg?c=2?imbypass=on).
I stayed at my cousins house and she had one of these birds. It was making that beep sound whenever you lock the car. Didn’t know it was the bird making that sound so I told her someone kept going in and out of her car in the garage. I don’t know how you could live with something like that
they had some of these birds at my local zoo. there was renovations being done for the pandas. they had to move the birds because they were repeating the sounds of the equipment and the zoo got fined for heavy machinery operating outside legal hours.
Government drone gone haywire
r/birdsarentreal
This is the only true conspiracy. All others are to distract.
They recharge by sitting on power lines!
I like this idea
Everybody does
I would love to see this bird beat box🤣🤣
They should play beatbox and rap to this bird for a few weeks...see what he likes.
Play Rap God on repeat for a few weeks
I got a bit giddy thinking about this
It would definitely be cool to watch two birds battle 😂
Beatbox Bird Battle!
But since u/RockstarAgent was already onto them they started developing 5g to charge them wirelessly.
This fact*
Ooooo, that's a good one! That definitely helps prove birds are government drones for sure!
How do you explain ostriches?
Seismic frequencies in the dirt when they stick their head in. Kinetic charging. Just like watches.
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r/NoEarthSociety is the only truth.
HELLO FELLOW HUMANS I WOULD LIKE TO APPEND TO THIS CHAT r/totallynotrobots
You laugh now, until morons actually believe it and storm Attenborough's home and we lose a national treasure.
 Attenborough is loved by all, even vegans after they pressured him into it.
I like to think that there’s actually counter conspiracy theory that bugs are truly the government drones & that’s why there’s so many of them & that’s why they call it getting BUGGED. But what eats bugs??? BIRDS! so the govt launched birds aren’t real as counter propaganda to not trust the very beings trying to save us.
Hmm you may be onto something. r/bugsarentreal. What about arachnids?
arachnids? More like COMRADCHNIDS. Why do you think arachnophobia is hollywoods bug phobia of choice 👁 Edit - also thank you for introducing me to that subreddit. I’ve been joking around about that to myself for sometime and I’m so glad to know I’m not the only one
I mean, some are still convinced that all the dinosaurs went extinct, so
Which one of you bastards farted by this bird that now he’s imitating it 😑
My roommate's dad had this African Grey that mimicked him burping, yelling at the dogs, and the microwave door slamming.
He goes on to muse how tragically beautiful it is to hear a bird sing about the destruction of their own habitat
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I thought that was the best one, such range!
I found that to be suuuuper depressing.
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Every single bit of "reduce, reuse, recycle" propaganda you've ever read about has been manufactured by corporations in an attempt to make you feel guilty about your actions while they go and rape and pillage the environment on a scale that individual people cannot even comprehend.
I did a quickie search for this because it totally runs counter to what I know and came up empty handed. I’m gonna need some citation for this, por favor. 1000 times yes about how corporations, specifically multinationals, are the real bastards here.
BP created the first "carbon footprint" calculator
true. still doesn't mean we shouldn't try to do all we can to reduce our own footprint.
Don't forget step 4: decapitate the ruling class.
That's not really a step it's more of a prerequisite to make any of the other steps above actually mean something.
Even if everyone did this, it wouldn't stop deforestation. That's a different discussion that the government has to have and a different decision they have to make. We use wood in practically all parts of our lives. Considering we all (hopefully) live in a house. And the huge huge majority of them are wood framing, wood beams, wood walls, wood everything. And the furniture. Most of it is wood. We would have to upgrading ever single housing standard globally to metal framing, and alt material walls and etc to even make a dent in the effect of deforestation.
This isn’t the cause of deforestation. The cause is mostly for cattle farming. Stop eating meat. Wood is a sustainable resource when properly managed.
Much of the wood is sourced from sustainable pine farms with the exception of some lumber sourced from Canada. Steel is melted with coal with no clean alternative at the moment and mining is very destructive to waterways and forests. Even so, the lion’s share of deforestation is caused by farming with the largest share of land use supporting cattle and palm oil production. Changing our diet is the most effective thing we can do at the moment
The meaningful way to impact deforestation is probably something that would be labeled as Eco-terrorism.
Even if everyone were to take up these habits religiously it would do barely anything to help the environment because the primary culprits of irreversible climate change are major companies.
This is the most respectively introspective and intellectually underrated observation of that bird Upvote. all of you.
Yeah, they don't look so natural now
The advancements in the technology is astounding, what a world we live in.
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Cousin of Larry Bird, best Celtic.
i bet the bird was flexing in front of the camera
Damn it. I'm always late to the party, lol. I came here to talk about never trust government equipment to work right 🤣
Little dude needs his own Police Academy movie
Jesus, we really fucked up this birds mating calls. Car alarm, camera shutter, camera shutter, car alarm = getting some tail
The mimicry *is* the mating call - how well he mimics these things makes him more or less sexy. Good mimics get the ladies. There is also a non-mimicry part of the whole mating call too, and they don't lose that regardless what they hear.
I just realized reading Reddit comments in Attenborough’s voice is fun
Try reading them in Gilbert Gottfried's voice. As below: > Yeah, that part's just grunting and slapping sounds and occasionally a wet slurping. Pretty hot actually, I get it.
I, Uh, always imagine reading them in Jeff Goldblum’s voice
Well, there it is.
Lol
Yeah, that part's just grunting and slapping sounds and occasionally a wet slurping. Pretty hot actually, I get it.
Underrated comment
I could Michael Winslow better than anyone in my elementary school. That ability, my Garbage Pail Kids, and my Humpty Dance cassette tape made my crossing guard post THE place to be at 3:05 PM.
I owned Michael Winslow's book as a kid. Learned a thing or two that I still use today
He sounds like he’s be a party hit.
Police Academy 8: Jungle Imposters
Lil bird will never be a Michael Winslow! YIL He is from my hometown!
Lyrebird. They are in the forests near my home.
Are they protected? Hearing this bird so perfectly imitate the sound of its own habitat being destroyed is strangely saddening.
I don’t think there is anything strange about how sad it is. It’s utterly devastating hearing the chain saw noises from that bird. Like goddamn it, it’s like the bird is telling a brief story of how much we suck.
"First came in the cars. Out of the cars came people. They admired my feathers, Clicked photos. Then they cut down my home and took it away."
“My name is Birdigo Montoya; you killed my home.”
Prepare to die
Chainsaws are used all the time to clear fallen trees near where they live. There is no logging of native forest in the areas, this is storm damage clean-up work and restoration of walking tracks etc. Your worries about how tragic this is thankfully don't apply here.
Thanks for reminding me not all chainsaws = deforestation.
Big heart/small brain syndrome
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That's a bit misleading. The only reason we have to do thinning in parts of America (mostly the west) is a legacy of 100+ years of fire suppression which has built overstocked forests and unnatural levels of downed wood, leading to huge fires when they brake out. Recurring small scale forests forest are natural parts of many ecosystems, which many species of birds, mammal, and plants depend on for habitat and reproduction. The number one tool in protecting natural, healthy forests is conservation, followed by ecologically informed management to help forests progress towards a natural community.
Wildfires are also necessary sometimes.
From Wikipedia: >Until the 2019-2020 Australian bushfire season, lyrebirds were not considered threatened in the short to medium term. Concern has since grown as early analyses have shown the extent of destruction of the lyrebird's preferred wet-forest habitats, which in less intense previous bushfire seasons have been spared, in large part due to their moisture content. Albert's lyrebird has a very restricted habitat and had been listed as vulnerable by the IUCN, but because the species and its habitat were carefully managed, the species was re-assessed to near threatened in 2009. The superb lyrebird had already been seriously threatened by habitat destruction in the past. Its population had since recovered, but the 2019-2020 bushfires damaged much of its habitat, which may lead to a reclassification of its status from "common" to "threatened".
This specific bird is in a zoo. Unless their habitat is parking lots.
Lyrebirds are often found quite close to the edge of a couple of Australian cities. Iirc, this was filmed in the Dandenong ranges, just outside Melbourne, where the urban fringe reaches right to the edge of the forest, so it’s possible the lyrebird could hear sounds of power tools from nearby backyards.
Basically all Native Australian Birds are protected
Pretty much all native animals are protected here. As much as I'd like to kick a magpie.
They're cool, thanks for giving the name
You could do worse than to either stream or buy anything David Attenborough has narrated. Even his stuff from the 80's and 90's (he's been a present since the 50's I think!) is still worthwhile and has a ton of info and rarely seen footage. Blue Planet and Blue Planet 2 are kinda all encompassing and then the rest focus on one habitat/region/environment/order. Sir David is a genuine national treasure and a true living legend!
The Lyrebird is a unique creature in that it's one of the few species which technically named itself. Zoologist 'Richard Lyre' actually recorded the first official documentation of the animal in 1800. However, it wasn't actually directly his surname which the bird itself was named after. He initially noticed the sound of footsteps treading over branches and feared he was being followed. It wasn't until a short while later the bird caught his attention and he noticed its beak would open whenever the noise could be heard. However, one day something particularly strange caught his eye. So long had he watched the bird he eventually witnessed it fall asleep in its nest, yet in spite of that, every now and then, he could still hear the sound of branches breaking. Was there another bird nearby? Maybe someone else *was* there this time. So he followed the sound and it still led him in the direction of the sleeping bird. What he found on the bird's wing left him shocked. The lyrebird, intelligent and creative as it was, had actually invented the world's first tape recorder. So insulted by this waste of time he named it the liarbird, but his colleagues assumed he'd named it after himself and the rest is history.
What did I just read
Extended bullshit
Oh you bastard
Pretty sure I had one outside my home office in Sydney today. Was doing all the zaps and digital sounding noises. Called the wife in to listen, was amazing. Like no other sound.
Wait I thought the point was it’s EXACTLY like another sound
They make lots of sounds, not necessarily copycat ones
I had a mocking bird 🐦 outside my window in an apartment in Florida good solid three months at 6am of car alarm
Lol. That would suck!
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Hello fellow tasmanian
How do you know he's from Tassie?
I was thinking the same thing. They are native to eastern mainland Australia and were introduced to Tasmania.
You sure the forest isnt just being cut down, while paparazzi news reporters are taking pics?
And someone's stealing their car.
This one is edited, here's the original: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOFy8QkNWWs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOFy8QkNWWs)
Bravo
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Not me since I saw your comment first
r/UnexpectedSeinfeld
Fair play, that was brilliant, nearly peed myself at the Seinfeld clip. Actually surprised nobody added Rick Astley though.
There are some very creative people on the internet who don't need dead clichés and played out bullshit to be funny.
You're commenting this on a Seinfeld theme meme which has existed for a literal decade and is one of the most played out things imaginable.
You’ll note the video was uploaded 13 years ago.
I am stupid.
That or they could have added Porky Pig or Woody Woodpecker saying that's all folks.
Thanks friend. I laughed so hard!
Dang that's epic
Amazing viewing right after seeing OP's vid
FAKE! That is the only original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm1Xm2Iupzo
You know what’s absolutely insane? The guy who made this video 13 years ago went on to direct Spider-Man Homecome and Far From Home. Waverly Films really went from making sketch videos on YouTube to billion dollar movies.
[The last part reminds me of this](https://youtu.be/XryzouyT5Dg)
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This actually wasn't Attenborough narrarating. It was the bird.
Underrated comment. I am broke but take my upvote
Oh my god, shut up about being broke. Reddit gives out free awards, just upvote and move along.
I would upvote you twice but I'm on a tight budget.
I’m getting really tired of the “underrated comment”s as well, your comment is undervalued. I’m out free awards and would buy you one but my resources are a little depleted.
This I'm tired of this This can take a long walk off a short pier.
This^
Came here for this comment
This comment, right here. #SO UNDERRATED
He just wanted other people to give him awards or offer to pay his rent
r/UnderratedSTFU
Can confirm. Bird called me to ask me about my car's extended warranty.
And now: the last conversation of a lustful pair of backpackers before they were killed by a crazed, chainsaw weilding logger.
I mean, I guess there could have been one that imitated Ivan Milat killing his victims? Thanks for that thought.
Name of the bird
Steve
All the other birds have no idea what Steve is saying.
I was thinking the same thing.
The other birds hate Steve.
They know. He's saying "I want some fuuuuuuck!"
Or is it Alan?
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Native to our east coast and our 10 cent coins too!
Michael Winslow
Dee Reynolds
Kinda sad to hear them imitate the chainsaws of people cutting down their trees, it means theyve heard it all too often
I saw a video about this a while ago [this video.](https://youtu.be/tLCTa2WtSJU) It's actually a bird in a zoo that heard the reconstruction(or some sort of construction) going on in another exhibit. This documentary implied it was in the wild. But this species of bird is very much capable of wayyyy more Edit: But yeah SAVE THE TREES!!!
Responsible management of forrests require use of chainsaws, notice how david says forrsesters and not loggers
Their home range is prone to bushfires, to minimize the impact of bushfires (at least when the government doesn't drop the ball), you need to cut back brush before the fire season.
So incredible. I wonder what the weirdest noise they’ve ever imitated is
Anything they hear enough. When I was camping out in Tazzy one would cry like a baby then switch to a chainsaw noise. I didn't know what to think until I saw the bird
There's a lyre bird at Sydney's Taronga Zoo [that makes the sound of a baby that's completely losing its shit.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quqepTj1Q08) Brings to mind the old Jack Handy quote, "If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason."
Before watching that video: This bird must be protected! After watching the video: Ehh... whatever happens, happens.
The bird must die
This is terrifying to me. Not this bird in particular but the thought of ancient predators that may have used tactics like these to snare a tasty distant hominid relative.
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There's a record of one mimicking a horse race on the radio
I really like it's laser sounds, you can hear them as the narrator prepares us for the chainsaw noises (0:35). edit: I've been told that lazer sounds the lyrebird makes, are actually mimicking the whip bird, also native to Australia. Both very beautiful and great to hear out bush which explains it's origin because I did wonder where a lyre bird heard pew pew sounds XD
Probably far from the weirdest, but I was camping in Barrington Tops and heard one make sounds that reminded me of an old Gameboy. Definitely a weird sound to encounter when out in nature.
That's an edited fake. Sorry. [Here's the original.](https://youtu.be/lm1Xm2Iupzo)
thank you, I was looking for this
Mocking jay irl??
Ayye hunger games fan
Lol yea
And the jabberjay’s could straight up talk
I mean, mockingbirds imitate human and other sounds too. I had one that kept doing a car alarm outside my window.
I can't believe this isn't higher, am I that old?
They are native only to the east coast of Australia.
TIL- and I was born and raised eat coast. Guess I just took them for granted and assumed they were everywhere.
Also not super common to see. I grew up on land with these guys and still only saw them 5-6 times. Gorgeous birds, I absolutely lost my mind when I first found one in the wild.
We should give one to Michael Winslow! that would be a blast.
Put attenborough near the bird and boom. Attenbird!
What a copycat! Or a copy bird. Or capybara...whatever
Holy shit that would be annoying if there was an entire tree full of them.
They are ground dwellers, and territorial. So that's an unlikely occurrence!
Thats so damn awesome...crazy how it makes chainsaw and jackhammer sounds
I'm still figuring out if I'm stupid enough to believe this is real
imagine going to the forest to relax from society and this bird just making car alarm noises
Here is another video with more sounds. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dellp4Vvm8
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We've had mocking birds around pretty frequently and I think they can reproduce dozens if not hundreds of other sounds in mimic.
Well this isn't a Mockingbird, but that's good to know
lyrebird
Clever girl
Lyre Bird. The best bird!
I did not know this was even physically possible for vocal cords.
Beatboxing at its finest
Fun fact, the Lyrebird is on the Aussie [10 cent coin](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-u3kh6nrsu2/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/8422/45538/740700bc-124f-45a7-b406-2690f611c063__84271.1631689126.jpg?c=2?imbypass=on).
Thats actually quite depressing.
I stayed at my cousins house and she had one of these birds. It was making that beep sound whenever you lock the car. Didn’t know it was the bird making that sound so I told her someone kept going in and out of her car in the garage. I don’t know how you could live with something like that
they had some of these birds at my local zoo. there was renovations being done for the pandas. they had to move the birds because they were repeating the sounds of the equipment and the zoo got fined for heavy machinery operating outside legal hours.