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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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Birds Are Beeping and Booping like R2-D2. Their Mimicked Sounds Are Helping Unlock the Secrets of Avian Communication

Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt created the character’s high-pitched, electronic chattering by combining his own voice and ...
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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 ...
The Washington Post

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 ...