Beartie the zebra finch singing
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- My baby zebra, Beartie, likes to bite the beads on this little bag. He also demonstrates one of his songs for the camera. He learned this song from listening to Beeper, my first zebra finch, as picked up on old cassette tapes of dictation from ten years ago. Beartie also learns songs from zebra finches we find on RUclips.
Beeper, my first zebra finch (1994-2004), had a distinctive song. Back in about 2000 I was recording notes for a book I later wrote, and Beeper's call showed up on the tapes. So I played one of these old tapes for Beartie and picked up Beeper's song. Beartie demonstrates Beeper's song in this video.
That is so significant! I'm so happy for you to have that experience❤
Birds are somthing else, they are all such amazing creatures.
Thank you for sharing!
I like when they do their little hops.
Zebras are adorable. It's been almost ten years since I've had one. Bertie ended up living in a geodesic dome at a zoo, where he could fly around and mingle with other birds.
smol birbs are the bestest
What we hear: Adorable beeping.
What female zebra finches hear: Chorus of a thousand serenading angels.
Cats: Easy dinner.
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I find it so sweet that he learned the song from another bird that came before him, almost like a family tradition
oh wow, yes! A family song passed down to little Bertie.
Got him about two weeks old. If you start earlier they are even more tame. Also, like with parakeets, one alone will bond with its human care taker. Always let them come to you. They go back to the cage on their own after a while.
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I had a pair of these little guys for a while. The female just sat quietly while the male yelled at me all day, lol. We found out that the bird only sang when I was home. If I was home he sang loudly and constantly, jumping around with frequent seed breaks.
How fun. Yeah, the males are talkative fellas!
Bertie learned the song from listening to old dictation cassette tapes I recorded in 2001 with my first zebra finch, Beeper, singing in the background.
Thats one of the more complex songs ive heard so far. Smart bird!
Thanks - Beeper, my first zebra, made this song up based on growing up in the same room with an old dot matrix printer. Bertie learned it from listening to old cassette tapes of Beeper.
@@NoriMuster Wow! That's neat!
He has a really high pitched squeak
That’s so cute omg
I keep repeating the first couple seconds of the video cause I love how he looks at you, then just looks at the laptop and goes “hm…yes…plastic square that makes funny colors. Peckpeckpeck.”
lol peck peck peck !
Zebra finches feel like they're smart and dumb at the same time
once i had a male zebra finch try to take one of the cuttlefish bones from under the cage and he was violently shaking the entire thing. Just so he can get it through the bars
he needed help with that one
I love this. Thank you for sharing your precious Beartie.
I love the tunes of zebra finches. They're fun to listen to.
They are smarter than we think!! Tiny brain, big soul.
My favorite part was when the finch was singing “tweet tweet chirp chirp”
that song is #1 on the charts!
Play it a few times, then let it go. They may try it out within a few days. If they like the sound, they will remember it and repeat it.
What a unique song! Beautiful little friend ❤
I don’t think you’d know of it, but the song reminds me of a sound effect in an old Commodore 64 game I had as a very young child - Beaky and the Egg Snatchers (appropriately, you play as a bird, protecting eggs from alien abduction, and the elements in order to hatch the chicks). Doesn’t sound the exact same but it is a fast sequence of high pitched beeps.
I love how inquisitive he is - no sitting around for Beartie 😉
he was the runt in a cage full of zebras. the people said if I would take hi, they wouldn’t charge me. so I got this adorable, special little fella!
It's so interesting that they pick up songs from other members of their species and add them to their own songs
Humans call it "sampling"
they learn so quickly
That's a cool R2 model
He is so sweet and as such a different song than mine:)
She's so beautiful
👍 I like Beartie!
Bertie would be so happy to know people are watching him peck around and practice his songs!
ah yes a squeaky toy a whistle and a beep at the end
the ladies will love me
you read his mind! 😜
beartie is so precious 💛💛💛💛💛
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That "old cassette tapes from ten years ago" is hitting a bit different right now ngl
it's on the charts again!
not even 5 seconds in and we get a *tap, taptaptaptap*
This some good cinema.
maybe they like to peck things to learn more, like an elephant might examine things with their trunk
I used to have such birbs, way too adorable ❤️
agree - way too cute!! 🤣
i love this video :) I have two of these lovely creatures...lol...they are so comical hahaha
+Dan Feather thanks! funny how much they love to sit on top of curtains (I watched the short clip on your page)
+Dan Feather here's a webpage I built for Bert. He lives in a large enclosure with other birds now. surrealist.org/art/bert.html
hahahaha thanks a lot i will look at it later....ive just managed to get pingu(my white zebra finch to do a trick!!! il try and video it later....she's sooo funny and awkward...lol
The song means 'I'mma destroy this purse!'. xD
haha
Your birb needs an update
How can you tell when a zebra finch is singing?
Very cute!
Yours can learn this song if you play it a few times. Mine learned it from a recording of my first zebra finch, who had this unique call. I is a zebra laughing call.
Really cute finch
thanks - he grew up with an iPad and loved to watch bird videos on RUclips
So cute!
Life looks so awkward for these cuties without any hands or arms lol
they’re like little people, in a bird body
At the time of this filming, the bird had already caught up its social media, sent 18 e-mails, including rough draft submission of a presentation to Veterinary convention to be held at Vanderbilt University in late July that year.
the little research teacher bird! what else could he do with his Ph.D.?
A very good song
it made me so happy when Bertie learned the song
@@NoriMuster it's really cute that it was passed on even after beeper passed away
@@morganicsmoothie964 beeper died 20 years ago. He lived a good long life.
Sounds like a creaky sewing machine!
Ahhh! You're right! 🤣
Your bird is cute
thanks - in 2012 he went to live at a zoo and got to fly around in a large enclosure and have other birdie friends
Wow
Your bird sounds so cute. I've been wanting to bring back my first bird's song for years but the last batch of chicks I currently own are all girls.
Every lyric appears to be censored.
bleep bleep bleep
@@NoriMuster 😄
My zebra finches are replying to your zebra finch! And the bird is trying to eat the beaded purse. They feed on seeds on the ground which is why he is trying to eat the purse.
There's got to be some seeds in there - keep looking!
Omg how does he not fly away my female finch fly's away every chance she gets
I used to let him fly around in my office and he loved the computer. he especially liked to peck the beads on the little purse where I kept my external hard drive. your bird may be less social. let them come to you - we need to earn their trust
I'm getting a zebra finch soon! - do you have any tips?
yes! zebras build nests. add shredded newsprint or other soft nesting materials in the cage and you will see some serious nest building going on.
handsome fellow
Nice
your bird haves the cuteness sounds.My male bird he makes cute sounds also.And sings cute.But not like that.Interesting ^ ^
if your bird is a male zebra, can learn this song
just let him listen to it a few times
oh really?O.O that's so awesome!:D okay yes he is a male.I got more then one bird.I have three.I have two females and one male.
realcynderDREAMWORLD Yeah, really. Play the video for your birds about once a week. Pretty soon they will pick up the song.
okay thankyou ^ ^
that is so cool
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That is indeed one complex song, has he been kept with bengalese/society finches or even canaries?
Bertie learned the song from a recording of my first zebra, Beeper. the way Beeper learned the song was living in the same room as a dot matrix printer.
@@NoriMuster lmao 🤣 I had a zeb who learned to sing listening to me, his voice was that of a very tiny woman it was weird.
I've got 15 at the moment they all have different laser , fax machine, video game voices haha
@@muffinfluff2476 Oh wow - total chaos! 😁
mines name is Zeeby. (zebra) finch.
These are the cheapest birds for sale here in Australia...starting at $2ea, usually around $5 and rarely over $7-$8 for all colour combinations
let me guess you're someone from Adelaide Australia who has never ever bought these birds before
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I've bought and bred them many times over 30 years among many other finches.
And I am from Adelaide...but what of it?
@@CommentFrom what are you talking about?
I guess because they’re easy to breed and not well known as pets.
that’s interesting you have experience breeding zebras. did you give them shredded paper for them to build nests?
Your printer is going off 😅joking
👍 hey somebody turn off that printer!!! 😊
holy shit...
I know, right?
Omnigod PDX you mean POO
it sounds like the finch is raping but in bird form
he was a good story teller, so yes, a good rapper
Listening to what???!
he learned the song from listening to old cassette dictation tapes I had that recorded my previous finch in the background
He sounds like a little printer. :)
You guessed it Blue! My first zebra finch Beeper grew up in a family of zebra finches where they all learned to imitate a dot matrix printer that ran quite often. Then I was recording some notes on a cassette tape and caught some of Beeper's song on tape. When I later had Bertie, I listened to the old cassette tape, and Bertie picked up the dot matrix printer song!
@@NoriMuster Then you may have seen this one: ruclips.net/video/F8tANndvXZs/видео.html
@@bluecollarcanuck I didn't see it before! That's definitely a dot matrix printer song! Thanks for sending.
he still alive`?
I’m not sure. some years ago I got him into a zoo where he could live in a big geodesic dome with other birds. I went to see him at the zoo in 2015 and he recognized me. he was the happiest I’ve ever seen him.