12-yr-old’s bird calls at Oklahoma school talent show have people’s jaws on the floor |
Once in a while, a kid pops up with a talent that makes everyone start tossing around the word “prodigy.” Sometimes it’s math, sometimes it’s music, but one 12-year-old’s impressive ability sits under an entirely different umbrella: bird calls.
Mimicking bird sounds comes in handy for birdwatchers and ornithologists. It’s a pretty niche undertaking, and one that most don’t master as children. But Samuel Henderson started learning bird calls on his own at age six, and his intense interest in birds hasn’t waned since. As a result, he has mastered 114 bird calls, some of which sound downright impossible for a human to make.
Watch Samuel at his Oklahoma middle school talent show as he demonstrates some of his favorites. (Be prepared to start off thinking, “Aw, that’s cute” and then get gobsmacked by the cardinal and red-tailed hawk, among others.)
@diabetic4one Two years after his first ever Talent Show, Samuel came back to where it all started. Some new birds and some of the familiar bird calls this time. It was a farewell to........