Black-headed canary (Serinus alario)

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isobea

Canary boys, learn their songs from their fathers, brothers, uncles and so on. If they are exposed to tapes or cd's of other males, they will learn and pick up new songs. If they are exposed to songs of other species of birds, they will learn and attempt to sing the songs of this other species.

When I first had my Luciano, he was the only Canary, later to be housed with Societies. In a matter of months, Luchi was doing his best to sing a Society song. It was one of the worst songs which you could imagine.

I started playing canary songs for him, and he started to pick up on it again. By the time his two brides came along, he was singing canary songs like he'd never stopped.

So, I wonder if a young male is exposed only to only flute song, if he will begin to mimic the flute song as well.

Could be a very interesting experiment.