guesswhokatysue
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Never ever having heard a bird talk before (in person) we are both scratching our heads on this one. We know that conures aren't the most vocabulary-inclined of the parrots out there, so it isn't that important if Mave talks, but it would be cool if he did say some stuff. To try and help this along, we have been saying "Pretty Bird" to him A LOT. (We say bird because we don't know if he is a he or a she..haven't gotten up the nerve to do sexing yet). Lately it sounds like he is TRYING to say it back. It's definitely not something an outsider would recognize as those words, but when we say it to him, he will pause and make a garbled noise that SOUNDS very similar to the tone we use when we say pretty bird. Are we nuts or could this be his attempt to mimic a phrase? (We definitely think he likes hearing it!).
I know some of your birds DO talk, so I was wondering if this was the beginning or if we are just mistaking normal bird sounds for attempted speech.
I know some of your birds DO talk, so I was wondering if this was the beginning or if we are just mistaking normal bird sounds for attempted speech.