bird-mimics

Updated: June 23, 2025

Obviously it is only personal feeling that induces them to do it, and they get no encouragement from other starlings, though when kept in cages, as they very seldom are now, and rewarded and taught, they might develop the most striking talents. It should be added that, like all good bird-mimics, they are ventriloquists.

C. J. (Charles John) Cornish - The Naturalist on the Thames