Funny Gouldian Males

[flyinverted]

For the past several weeks, I have noticed this funny behavior with all of my male Gouldians. One will be singing and he will immediately be flanked by 2 others to listen to his song. Adults or juveniles will be singer and adults and juveniles will be the audience.

Here we have an adult in the middle and an adult on the left and a juvenile on the right.

I see this daily and it makes me laugh, so I thought I'd share with you.

[flrancho]

Cute. That's an excellent shot!

[DanteD716]

Adorable!! And funny!!

[CandoAviary]

Those two side flankers are listening intently
You captured the lesson perfectly

[Bluebonnet]

That is an AWESOME image. Thanks for sharing.

[jls7453]

That is a great picture. I have seen this behavior before,but couldn't get a pic.

Thanks for sharing

[kheather]

love the picture...love their expressions and the one with its eyes closed listening....great!!!

[moonrise]

How cute is that!!!

[debbie276]

Great picture, love to see their singing lessons!

[kenny66]

thats how young goulds learn what a male song should sound like , from an older male. I also have young gouldians lined up to hear male canaries sing, listening very intently indeed. None however have been able to copy a canary song!!! I have never witnessed this with solitary species like the emblemas and none of my exotics do it., although the Red Faced Parrot Finches do teach their young ones the different calls, during adolesence but usually from accross the aviary, not on the same perch. Various other Australian birds use this method, such as the bower birds and the famous lyre birds who not only copy mature males but also chain saws, camera clicks and a motors running morphing this into a suite of sounds specific to that particular male. It apparently can take years to get his song right. I am sure there are a number of other species that do this but it sure is nice to see it in your aviary.