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Starlings Learn Natural Language, Have Nothing to Say

Report in the journal Nature: starlings can handle center embeddings and will peck at your eyes if you try to garden-path them.

Recursive syntactic pattern learning by songbirds,
Timothy Q. Gentner, Kimberly M. Fenn, Daniel Margoliash and Howard C. Nusbaum
Nature 440.27. 1204-1207 (27 April 2006)

[Thanks John!]