birds can dance
Biologists reported to their amazement that birds can dance, according to Rebecca Morelle in BBC news today. (I will suppress the easy jokes about musical taste here.)
Several years ago I was a member of a band called Minnow. We had weekly practice sessions at the piano players house. The piano player had an African grey parrot named Picard. When we musicians would arrive, the bird was very excited to see us. When we started playing Picard would join in (although he didn’t know the tunes). It appeared to me that band practice was one of the high points of Picard’s week.
So I’m guessing that other bird owners may have had similar experiences, and would not be super shocked at reading this research paper.
Regardless, wider human acknowledgement of birds’ appreciation of music cannot be a bad thing.