At the edge of the inner city is a windmill.
It is a reconstruction of an earlier windwill at that spot, owned in the seventeenth century by the father of famous painter Rembrandt.
Today at 12:55., about seventy starlings sat on its sails.
You could hear them sing together.
The size of the group pointed at autumn migration.
Starlings’ songs and language: here.
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Birds grasp key rule of grammar, study finds:
The European starling has an unsuspected ability to
pick up “human-only” language skills, researchers
suggest.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/060426_starlingfrm.htm
Comment by Administrator — April 28, 2006 @ 9:05 am
Neuroscience: Birds and Recursion Structure in Language
New work shows that at least one non-human species, the European
starling, can be trained to acquire complex recursive grammars.
Full report at http://scienceweek.com/2006/sw060519-4.txt
Comment by Administrator — May 16, 2006 @ 7:05 pm
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Migrating starlings and Rembrandt
Posted by:
laughingwolf
Loopy Lair
Date: 10/10/05 at 1:38 AM (2w2d ago)
interesting… they don’t look much like the ’starlings’ here… a messy, obnoxious pest, for the most part
RE: Migrating starlings and Rembrandt
Posted by:
dearkitty
Date: 10/10/05 at 7:41 AM (2w2d ago)
If you mean “European starling”: they are the same species.
Comment by Administrator — December 24, 2006 @ 9:25 pm