Wish my finches could do that. Two weeks ago, I had a dozen finches. Today I have one and tomorrow will probably not have any.
Construction is going on locally and the displaced field mice think that my finch cage is their personal fast food joint :-/ If only they kept an eye open half the night... Condolences on your cockatiel! Judy On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Judy Perry wrote: > > It may take some time. I think I remember reading somewhere that birds > > even practice their songs in their sleep. I think the researchers > > monitored brain waves or some such thing to show that the birds would > > silently rehearse in their sleep. > > Even more trivia: birds only sleep half their brains at a time. One eye > generally stays open. Though the original study was on ducks, I saw this > repeatedly with my cockatiel, who always slept with his "outside" eye > (the one toward the window) open. (Past tense, because the sweet thing > passed away a few weeks ago at the grand old age of 11.) > > My canary is tweeping little experimental snatches of tunes today. His > mourning dove call took about 3 weeks to perfect, so I'll give him some > time. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
