Name: 11-year-old boy who can imitate 50 birds wows at school talent show
Uploaded: 2025-04-19T21:01:10.000Z
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It's not a bird, it's a plain old kid with a special talent.

Those sounds are all coming from a Samuel, an 11-year-old Samuel Henderson.

Samuel, who is autistic and has Tourette syndrome, can perfectly imitate 50 birds.

Yeah, some people say that I swallowed birds.

But since he mostly practiced his calls on the playground, alone along the back fence.

A lot of kids at his Chocktaw Oklahoma school hadn't ever heard until the annual Nicoma Park Intermediate School talent show.

But no kid from special Ed had ever participated, and this would be mostly singing and dancing and band instruments.

And the thought of that happening to him on stage in front of the whole school. - Yes.

It would just break my heart if that were to happen.

But Lori says his teacher convinced her that Samuel needed to spread his wings, so to speak.

So he took to the stage, at first, the other kids didn't know what to think.

It really sounded like there was a bird in the building.

But as he continued and laid his passion bare, jaws dropped.

The crowd came alive, and Samuel was not only accepted, he was admired.

It takes like a lot of courage to get yourself up there.

I don't think I saw one single kid like not clapping their hands.

I was so happy to see him living his dreams.

It's been almost a year since that talent show.

Everyone here can do a peacock, it goes like this.

Steve Hartman on the road in Chocktaw, Oklahoma.