Makes sense but it’s something I never really thought about before!
Equally important, my dog —who loves birds— is very intrigued by that video.
I’m so fucking glad those birds don’t exist in South America. Because this is one of the sounds I hate the most.
When I was a child, my home had a cuckoo clock. Already centennial back then. Noisy and loud. And it made that “cuckoo!” noise once 1AM or 1PM, twice 2AM or 2PM… can you picture the bloody hell that shite was at midnight???
…okay, the birds have no fault for that. But I’m still glad they don’t exist here.
I live in the Black Forest. The older cuckoo clocks don’t just sound awful, but they look like a demon has infested it.
The one from my childhood is almost identical to this one, plus the three weights from the video pelespirit linked. Even the “IIII” instead of “IV” for the four*. I have no idea on its geographical origin, but it still exists — I saw it last week,
now it haunts my brother-in-law and nephewmy sister inherited it.*something I’d only understand years later - “IV” is for Jupiter (IVPITER). Just a bit of respect for the old gods that survived.
I want to kill time:
Ha, me too, thanks! I had a cuckoo clock in the 90s, just never thought to look up what the actual birds sound like 😂
