camo
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Gizmo - Male Eclectus Parrot
Pebbles - Female Eclectus Parrot
Today I was sitting having a drink, phone on the table and Pebbles started making some of her sounds (she doesn't talk, although we talk to her, hopefully one day she will). I haven't got much on video of her sounds and thought I would see what I can get (I have been curious to know how much is natural eclectus calls, and how much may be her mimicking other birds from say an aviary before she came to us).
Anyway the plan didn't work, as once again as soon as they saw I had the phone, it was "oh look, daddy's holding up that black toy again, lets say nothing and see what he does next" (it's a constant problem, I end up recording them looking at me, or flying over to my shoulder to try to chew the phone, this time 5 minutes of silence, a wing stretch and a scratch, I really need to set up a camera
).
Not all was lost, I thought this was pretty funny. I don't even get the phone off the table (so sorry for the black video), and I catch this sweet moment (you may have to turn the volume up, phone doesn't do a clear recording and Gizmo was not talking very loud).
[ame="https://youtu.be/Mulz6MW9XRg"]gizmo chats up pebbles - YouTube[/ame]
The first sound Pebbles makes, and then if you can hear it, Gizmo replies "Hey Beautiful", then followed by his own spin, his shortened wolf whistle (he does do a full whistle, but sometimes he likes to shorten it). He is still working on it, but at least to me he is starting to get the pronunciation down on "Hey Beautiful".
Apart from the crappy filming on my part, I hope you enjoy it.
Cheers,
Cameron
Anyway the plan didn't work, as once again as soon as they saw I had the phone, it was "oh look, daddy's holding up that black toy again, lets say nothing and see what he does next" (it's a constant problem, I end up recording them looking at me, or flying over to my shoulder to try to chew the phone, this time 5 minutes of silence, a wing stretch and a scratch, I really need to set up a camera
).Not all was lost, I thought this was pretty funny. I don't even get the phone off the table (so sorry for the black video), and I catch this sweet moment (you may have to turn the volume up, phone doesn't do a clear recording and Gizmo was not talking very loud).
[ame="https://youtu.be/Mulz6MW9XRg"]gizmo chats up pebbles - YouTube[/ame]
The first sound Pebbles makes, and then if you can hear it, Gizmo replies "Hey Beautiful", then followed by his own spin, his shortened wolf whistle (he does do a full whistle, but sometimes he likes to shorten it). He is still working on it, but at least to me he is starting to get the pronunciation down on "Hey Beautiful".
Apart from the crappy filming on my part, I hope you enjoy it.
Cheers,
Cameron
