Talking to the TV

Puck · Mar 9, 2015

So it's Day 3 of Sammy at my house and usually he is either quiet, doing a flock call, or chirping, but when I turn on the TV, he makes sounds like he is trying to talk! When I sit with him and try to get him to say the few words his previous owners say he knows, he rarely responds with vocalizations, but when the TV comes on, he starts to start talking, saying what I am pretty sure is hello and what's up and trying to say other words! Do you think he'll eventually do it for me, when we bond more? Right now it seems he likes to make noises only when he's on top of his old cage and the TV is on.

Allee · Mar 9, 2015

It's hard to say, it's really according to the bird. I have a female quaker that talks nearly non stop, she argues with her toys. My male quaker is really shy, but he says a few words and phrases. My guess is Sammy will use his words and learn new ones before too long. Both my quakers like to watch anything animated on TV and they both like music.

Puck · Mar 9, 2015

Haha he sat on my shoulder and said I love you for head scratches. As I type this on my iphone he is sitting on the edge of the phone lol... I think he may start talking when the tv is on because he is jealous that I am looking at it and not him. Sorry Sammy but I love my Netflix!

Taw5106 · Mar 10, 2015

I agree with Allee. I've had Buddy for a year now, he's a 25 yo GCA. I've been told he talks, sings to rock around the clock but he says very little. To us he says Hello, and we've heard WOW, other things that we couldn't figure out. We know he has a large vocabulary but we don't know his triggers. He hasn't chosen to speak to us but we know he is capable so we are practicing patience with him and we try new phrases, old phrases and keep pursuing. Good luck!

cnyguy · Mar 10, 2015

My QP Ralph is a relatively quiet Quaker, and though he knows lots of words, he doesn't say them often. He has days where he's a little more talkative than others (like today, when he told me several dozen times that he's a good parrot

). He's never said a word to the TV though, and mostly ignores it.

My old YCA George used to talk back to the TV all the time. He especially liked to laugh along with the laugh track on comedy shows.

Puck · Mar 10, 2015

I've decided he likes to talk while the TV is on because it means I am giving it and not him attention! Tonight in what I think was a desperate attempt to get a few more scratches before sleepy time when I closed his cage and said "night night" he immediately said "night night" right back then bent his head and puffed up his neck feathers like "I've been a good boy now PET me!" Lol. Parrots are smart and humans are gullible is my new motto haha!

flyingron · Mar 12, 2015

My quaker has a few words, but she's extremely imitative of sounds. Her words are limited primarily to "Good Bacca, Good Bird" and "Bye, Bye" and "Come here." Occasionally she'll drop another one on us.

If she hears a sound she'll mimic along, zippers zipping, me tapping on her perch (which is followed by come here which explains that word), the smoke detectors (she was on my shoulder last week when I went around changing the batteries), a machine gun she heard on TV, my wife's whistling, and the squeaky sound our shoes make on the floor, etc...

When my wife reads her a bed time story (always the same one), she will start to vocalize along... it's clear she knows it well enough and is trying to read along. The words aren't recognizabe usually (though she gets good night and kickety kick).

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