Jays in my area well fly around making eagle calls convincing enough to fool plenty humans (myself included). Multiple times Iāve heard that unique shriek and searched the sky for a big bird only to see a cheeky Blue Jay hopping around in a tree š¤£
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Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world āØ1ā© āØweekā© ago
Yes and no. A lot of the sounds are mating calls, but thereās so much more being communicated.
Some sounds are warnings, like when squirrels see a cat and start to chirp. If you watch them, youāll see them run up a tree and pause upside down on the trunk, chirping an alert to others. Other squirrels in the area will repeat the behavior and amplify the āmessageā until the threat (the neighborhood cat) goes away.
Some sounds are intended to trick others. Blue jays mimic the sounds made by birds of prey in order to scare other birds away from their feeding grounds. It works really well - Iāve seen a jay clear a whole flock of starlings from my yard before. He then swooped down and plucked a bunch of worms from the soil.
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Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de āØ1ā© āØweekā© ago
honestly iād expect most sounds to not be mating sounds unless itās specifically a time of year where most of the animals there are in mating season
i think we humans tend to forget that itās not very normal to just always be looking to bang, for most animals (and plants even) itās done very enthusiastically at specific times.