Decoding Bird Language: Music, Mimicry & Avian Communication

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Talks on Tuesdays is a live event series bringing big ideas, real experts, and curious minds together - at your favourite local venues. Think thought-provoking lectures, audience questions, and post-talk mingling over drinks and dinner.

This isn’t a uni lecture. It’s a social, intelligent night out.Come alone or with friends, leave with something to talk about.

Event Schedule:

6.30pm Arrival & Doors Open

7pm Lecuture Starts

7.45pm Q&A

8pm Talk Concludes

8.30pm Event Closes.

*Please arrive close to 6.30pm

A La Carte menu and full bar available throughout the night - pay as you go.

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Decoding the Language of Birds: Music, Mimicry & New Frontiers in Avian CommunicationDid you know parrots can recognise relative pitch, cockatoos create their own dance moves, and some birds have even been taught to video call one another?Join wildlife presenter and ornithologist Evie Ember as she explores the latest research into avian communication, cognition and music. Using fascinating scientific studies alongside observations from her own parrots, Rumi, Yoshi and Cosmos (with Yoshi more famously known online as the viral “Operabird”), Evie will unpack how birds learn to sing, mimic sounds and communicate with one another. Discover why birds sing, how parrots acquire their remarkable vocal abilities through social learning, the incredible biology of the syrinx, why birds seem to like “human music” and what recent research is revealing about how technology is opening new possibilities for…