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Eleven-year-old Samuel Henderson of Choctaw, Oklahoma, is a born entertainer with a unique talent: he can perfectly imitate about 50 birds.
“Some people say that I swallowed birds,” Henderson, who is autistic and has Tourette syndrome, told CBS News.
He says the most difficult bird to emulate is the barn swallow, but he can imitate anything from a blue jay and a tufted titmouse to a robin.
Since Henderson mostly practiced his calls alone on the playground along the back fence, many kids at his school had not ever heard his incredible skills.
That is, until the annual 2024 Nicoma Park Intermediate School talent show. More
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The bird is the word.
That was the best Blue Jay call I ever heard (other than the genuine Jay)
We are all here for a reason. That joke about eating birds (chickens) cracked me up! Kid might have a career in comedy. Does Josh Blue need an apprentice?
A feel good story for a Monday? Thanks Doc
Actually, he did a pretty good barn swallow call. Although, he did forget the “burp” at the end.
If you’ve never heard it, you would laugh if I tried to explain it. But the best I can do with words is a “burp”.
I had barn swallows that liked to perch on my house TV antenna and sing to their heart’s content. I really missed it when I had my roof repaired after having hail damage. Since I had cable and didn’t need the antenna (as they would have charged me to replace it after removing it to fix the roof), I told them to get rid of it.
I told my friend at work about the fun calls they made and she didn’t believe me. One time (before the antenna was removed) I asked her to come over a few times to feed my cat while I went home to Michigan to visit family. After I returned to work, the first thing she said to me was, “I didn’t believe you, but now I do! I heard the swallows!”
Maybe this is somerhong otherwise useless people like obama, harris and AOC can aspire to.
Think “The Tonight Show” would put this boy on? I know Johnny Carson would in a second, but the politically tainted product today, I have my doubts they would stoop to show case a feel good story during the Second Trump Administration.
Read an article once that said If a Child was raised around Tigers from a very
Young age…It could probably mimic the Roar…Basically saying that We could
learn any Animal noise if We grew up around it.
Turkey opens this coming Saturday… I wonder if the kid is for hire?
With Tourette’s, I was expecting “tweet, tweet, tweet, Cocksucker! Tweet
@2A4ever
I was thinking the same thing.
A very brave kid.