Are birds deaf

[bobk]

Simple question , got a couple of waggies by the patio doors and every time I shout waggy , they take no notice at all .

 

[roscoe erf]

try tweeting them

 

[Agrivator]

Simple question , got a couple of waggies by the patio doors and every time I shout waggy , they take no notice at all .

Maybe you are dumb!! In which case, the waggies (whatever they are) won't be able to hear you.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Perhaps they just don’t like you and are ignoring you.

If they were deaf, would they bother singing to each other?

 

[bobk]

Perhaps they just don’t like you and are ignoring you.

If they were deaf, would they bother singing to each other?

How do they know they're singing .

 

[Bury the Trash]

I expect old ones would be

 

[DRC]

Simple question , got a couple of waggies by the patio doors and every time I shout waggy , they take no notice at all .

Pied or yellow?

 

[TripleSix]

Definitely something wrong with the pigeons currently, quite a few dead ones at the road sides, I've had two with the van

 

[bobk]

Pied or yellow?

Pied , as they're not yellow .

Crows can hear , just told one to fudge off and he did .

 

[7610 super q]

Ducks can hear perfectly well, but can't be arsed to listen, I've noticed.

 

[Princess Pooper]

pied waggies are pretty tame, they hang around our yards every year near the milking parlour with all its associated noises (and shouting ) . Also commonly found on school playgrounds and playing fields.

 

[mixed breed]

Ducks can hear perfectly well, but can't be arsed to listen, I've noticed.

 

[Gordy1]

You can always tell when they are singing co's there mouths open

 

[Wooly]

According to the interweb

Turns out the reason birds can’t permanently lose their hearing is because the “sensory hair cells in the inner ear essential for hearing simply grow back” if damaged. Unlike ours, which don’t.

 

[GeorgeK]

Definitely something wrong with the pigeons currently, quite a few dead ones at the road sides, I've had two with the van

Must be withdrawals from the lack of nicotinoids in the OSR

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

Most of the birds I dated were either deaf or weren’t interested in hearing how to set up the skimmers on a plough .

 

[Cab-over Pete]

It’s a bugger when they don’t seem interested in the inner workings of a centrifugal oil filter too.

Miserable sods, the lot of them.

 

[Pond digger]

Simple question , got a couple of waggies by the patio doors and every time I shout waggy , they take no notice at all .

So, exactly why are you shouting at your wagtails?

 

[Exfarmer]

I think birds are pretty deaf , at least the one who is employed to wake them all up in the morning, has to shout b***** loud to get them out of their nests. I just wish he would sleep in a bit on these summer mornings.
The current holder of the post is a pheasant who likes to stand on my patio wall about ten feet from my bedroom window, to perform his daily task

 

[Kiwi Pete]