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   an anecdote

   

   Glenn, May 11th, 2001 @ 3:44pm

   
   

   I can vouch that my girlfriend's African Gray parrot immitates her phone all the time... I can also say that it can be a little annoying at times.. .. okay, so it's likely that Denmark doesn't have a flock of parrots hanging out:-)

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   I have heard it too.

   

   Rootman, May 12th, 2001 @ 12:22pm

   
   

   My bro-in-law has had various birds that did this, along with mocking my sis-in-laws tweetering silly laugh, gameshow sounds (anyone want to hear the Wheel of Fortune wheel click for hours on end??), regualer electronic phone rings - which is really hilarious when he hangs the birds cage on the patio and all the neighbors in his condo rush inside to "answer the phone" when the bird starts "ringing".

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   Nothing new at all

   

   Unsurprised, May 14th, 2001 @ 3:13am

   
   

   This entirely old news. I can remember here birds imitating the BT trimphone ring in the early 70s. And I simply don't believe that a spokesman from RSPB made such an inane comment as this is such an old phenomenon

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   Boids

   

   Iain C, Dec 6th, 2001 @ 6:36am

   
   

   When a few years ago my mother moved to the Isle of Skye, her new home had an outside ringer extension so she could hear the phone while gardening.
   
   Over the course of a summer as we did the place up, we were continual deceived by starlings into answering a phone that wasn't ringing; the accuracy with which they mimicked the ringer was amazing.
   
   It wasn't until we actually unplugged it and it seemed to keep ringing that we figured out what was happening...

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