[abruzzi]

Kind of off topic, but my pet parrot (a Mitred Conure) gets off-the-hook loud whenever I try to watch Hitchcock's The Birds. The movie has a lot of bird noises (and strangely enough an electronic music score thats not really audible as a score--it just makes the squawks denser) but I don't know if he's trying to engage or mimicking.

[yareally]

My parrots (Green Cheek and a Budgie) can't stand hearing other bird calls. Freaks them out (even the ones in the console/pc version of WingSpan[0]). A majority of bird calls in the wild are territorial and it seems to freak them out the most in the Spring when their hormones are at their highest, so it's likely related.

I haven't thought too far into it, but I imagine they freak out more when it's a hawk/falcon call than a songbird.

[0] https://stonemaiergames.com/games/wingspan/

[cainxinth]

I’m a big fan of Bernie Krause, a soundscape ecologist who records the sounds of natural environments. I often listen to his stuff while I’m working. The recordings that feature a lot of bird calls can set the local birds in my neighborhood off. They will all start chirping back.