For birds, like humans, is knowledge of a "foreign language" likewise a perishable skill?? :)

Green Jays -- Cyanocorax yncas -- were very much around this morning.

In Brackettville, Texas 78832.

But!

Gone is the Wild Mexican Parrot Talk they were still imitating when "global warming" or who knows what propelled them north west of their traditional nesting grounds in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas -- mi tierra primera -- as Morelos, Coahuila is my second!

My back was to our kitchen screen door one day early last Fall here in Brackett, when I heard the typical low - pitched chitter chatter used by contented wild parrots when feeding during the day, not to be confused with the raucous, exuberant squawks wild Mexican parrots use in the early morning and when settling down for the night.

At least not in Mexico!

Hey, it must have been 45 years or more since I heard these calls, as when we were in the jungles of Honduras in January of 1993, it was more or less winter and all was silent, as least during the middle of the day, even up in the Cloud Forest...