Preludes with Parakeets Day 4 - Ain't Misbehavin'

Let's see how the Parakeets like this old Standard. See link below to a New York Times article that discusses whether birds listen when you plan music to them. Q. Do the songbirds on the wire outside my window listen when I practice the violin? A. In all likelihood, they do, said Timothy J. DeVoogd, a professor of psychology at Cornell University, who has long studied both human and bird brains, particularly how the brains of birds encode learned behaviors like song. He said he was aware of a good study from 2012 that suggested that bird brains respond to song in the same areas that human brains do. “As a shorthand way of thinking, if a bird song sounds musical to human ears, odds are that similar human music will sound songlike to the bird,” Dr. DeVoogd said. He said there was a lot of research finding that “when a reproducing male hears another bird singing, and it’s a good song, he gets angry.” question@nytimes.com

Preludes with Parakeets Day 3

Hi Folks, Another day playing for the parakeets. Another round of Chopin, to see how they react to some romantic era piano. What do you think? Is music the universal language, that birds put some kind of meaning to?

Prelude with Parakeets Day 2

A second nightly piano serenade of a Chopin Prelude for Dino and Sky, my pet parakeets.  Dino is green and yellow, and Sky is blue... I wonder what they think of Chopin... Is music the universal language?

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