The impact that wiped out the dinosaurs also wiped out all songbirds, except for in (ark) Australia. Australian songbirds then spread out to rest of the planet.
The closest living descendents (aka basal lineages) are the Lyrebird and the Rufus scrub bird. The lyrebird’s song is a mixture of its own song and other birds songs. They have been also been known to mimic chainsaws, car alarms, camera shutters, and human speech.
TIL, not YSK
You should know! I consider it important information that is necessary for life, as now you get to imagine every songbird tossing in a “cunt” or “good on ya” while twittering away.
I was considering deleting this because of some reports but you know what? Miles O’Brien has a point, the post stands. Carry on and thank you for your service to Starfleet.
My thought is that it also implies that there’s a good chance dinosaurs sang.
A brightly feathered, singing T-Rex is the thought I can’t stop giggling about.
That’s nice and all for a science or bird community. Not here, though.
Imagine a 10’ tall lyrebird roaming free thru the streets…honking, pretending to be a camera, an ambulance, a fire truck.
At night it keeps repeating parts of the news…“and the president will invade Eur! And the p…”
My best guess is that’s why we don’t see any of those things these days. Someone or something got pissed.
… What?
Song birds must have been much larger in prehistoric times I assume. Maybe not 11’ tall but what about the size of a crow or a dog? Imagine chirping so loud you can still hear it if you close your doors.
Australia has song birds about the size of a crow, they’re called Magpies. They are at times aggressively territorial, extremely intelligent, family orientated and very pleasant to wake up to in the morning.
Occasionally silly https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hu3hrXjMtNI
Occasionally terrifying https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EXYf2DTOsvI
Song at 1:23 of the second video.
Yeah, like that, but with constant song bird singing.
Love it. I will from now on imagine every song bird as singing in an Australian accent.
I mean not to nitpick but there are (were?) hundreds of aboriginal languages, none of which were related to the colonialist accent. And they were there for like thousands of years. So like fuck these birds if they’re speaking English tbh
To suggest a bird should confirm to a culture is insane. To the birds, both indigenous and colonial cultures would be a drop in the ocean compared to what they’ve seen.
Sorry, it was tongue in cheek! But Christ now I wonder what they’ve seen o_0
Every morning they’re screaming “g’day, mate!”
