Mechanical Music - automatic birds

That scene in Bladerunner where Deckert goes to meet his girl and she has an artificial owl is a great extrapolation of the future rich.

Royalty had artificial birds in the 18th Century. They were really the first "robots" built and were the predecessor to the cuckoo clock. Here is an example of a modern mechanical bird that is built much the same way it has been for hundreds of years. There is a clip of the birds moving and singing, and then the works inside.