Practicing for their courtship in the spring is a good guess.
I don't know how many songs our birds know but a possible 200 doesn't surprise me. Their natural voice is a high screech but when they get to singing it can be very beautiful. One pair makes a nest in a tree near the window where I use my computer and they know many songs. They will sing for hours. I don't know what their message is but they seem happy with it.
My mother told me that here if you hear a bird singing in the night it is a mockingbird. There are other night birds but they don't sing. If I didn't know that I would think there were many varieties of birds singing outside my window!
Do you have myna birds there? My uncle had one that learned some human speech. A few words but its favorite things was to whistle for the dog and then make a human laugh when the dog showed up. :-)
Myna bird? I think we called it Beo here, yess! Somehow a bird living next to my shop screeming my husband name's sometimes 😂😂😂 the nightangle is a bird who could record to 300 songs and mockingbirds 200.. we call it here "singing bird" though for me it sound like chirping. 😊
Aahh.. talking about birds.. I still curious what's the night bird that somehow stop screeching near my house at night after I saw it when I came back from jogja last september, I saw it when we're walking back to the hotel when we're in Jogja, I told my hubby "is it possible the bird is following us?" He didn't say anything. But I still heard it every night when we're in Jogja. Then.. When we arrived at the bus pool from jogja, I saw it again screeching then stand at the highest telecom tower building at the opposite of us, told husband about it.. then I wave my hand to it, told that we're save... and since then, I never heard it screeching around my house anymore. That's strange right?
That IS strange - to hear the bird every night when you are away from home, then hear it again when you first arrived back? Maybe a guardian bird? I'd like to know what kind of bird it was too.
A bird that calls your husband's name? LOL So, it is imitating your voice? :-)
I love the name beo for a bird. Once at a friend's house I heard a beautiful bird call. It sounded like water bubbling over river stones. She said it was a nightingale. Also near her house live hundreds of wild parrots! Probably from a couple that escaped their cages years ago because it isn't a natural parrot territory. They don't come by my house even though it is only 10 miles away. We only have common birds here!
I heard that bird every night since I move to Pamulang but I have never seen it. I tried many times to find it.. I thought it was a screech of my neighbour's love birds.. but love birds never chirped at night. It just screeching once or two right after the sun goes down until near dawn. When we're in Jogja it showed itself while screeching and flew away.. I just saw a black bird. Then when we arrived about 6.am I can see it greyish and big as my palm. Since then until today.. it never appeared anymore.
Well we have some beautiful "Beo" here and it is kind of threatened birds which mean you can't get it out from its habitat without any legal permission. But somehow, people still have it😢, like parrot.. it can be trained to speak.
So now you have seen the night singing bird but not know the name of it? It sounds like it likes you, so maybe it will come back? But if it stays away that is a mystery!
And I still haven't resolve the mysteri.. never seen or heard it anymore.. it doesn't singing but screaming I guess.. a single tweet.. but repeated for 3 or 5 after 2-3 minutes, then flew away. I thought it was a crow, but crow is black.. while its not. Crow doesn't have that high pitch but nice screaming. I wish that I can find out more later.
Perhaps there is an elderly person in your neighborhood who knows this bird? Or I should say, someone who has lived there a long time, they don't have to be an old person! If the bird makes such a noise someone must have wondered too and maybe saw it more times? I would like to know this mystery too!
Well.. I'll wait for the time when it's flying around.. sometimes at midnight I heard it passing by, I asked to people at the shop and they just shake their head which mean they don't know too. I must wait for the next encounter