These Birds Learned to Tweet Like R2-D2. Listen to the Uncanny Results

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, R2-D2 beeped and booped—and now birds that copy the Star Wars character are giving ...

Bird or droid? Starlings nail R2-D2 beeps and boops.

When it comes to copying R2-D2, the best bet seems to be small birds with small brains .
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Birds and bytes: how one YouTuber taught a starling to store and retrieve data

A YouTuber, Benn Jordan, has successfully managed to save a PNG file to a starling songbird. To do so, Jordan took a sketch of a bird, converted it into an audio wave, and taught the sterling to ...
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A flash drive made of a bird: a YouTuber converted data into sound, and a starling was able to play it back

Some of the experiments «don’t make sense, but they are quite logical. Birds are good at memorizing complex sounds, so you can «record» data on them, and you will get a kind of «flash drive» YouTuber ...
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What is Murmuration and How Can You See It?

Starlings perform a behavior known as murmuration, but what is this display? Read here to learn more about this beautiful ...
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You can 'thank' Shakespeare for one of Virginia's most common birds

We asked our friends at the Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville to spotlight something fascinating about our state. Here, Bard meets bird. How did the European starling make it to ...
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Why do flocks of birds swoop and swirl together in the sky?

A shape-shifting flock of thousands of starlings, called a murmuration, is amazing to see. As many as 750,000 birds join in flight. The birds spread out and come together. The flock splits apart and ...