Blue crowned owners

[ACE209]

I was reading a list that rates parrots on talking ability and Blue crowns are rated as the worst. I wanted to see how everyone else's BCC talking ability was compared to other parrots. Sherlock my BCC knows a few phrases hello, good bird, give me a kiss, bye bye, wolf whistle, loud kissing sound, a loud hmmm, whose my baby bird. Sometimes they can be hard to understand.

 

[JamesC]

I was told that my 30 year old female Tootsie used to talk some. 2nd or 3rd hand information is that she had an encounter with a pet snake who escaped it's cage and was found curled up in the bottom of her cage. Supposedly she never talked again after that. She does a kind of breathy mumble when I talk to her but I've never been able to discern any words.

Rosco, my rescued male, says 3 things. "What ya doin?", "Pret-birrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrd" and "Wack-a-wack-a-wack-a....." Except for the "wack-a", the other two phrases are not very distinct.

 

[thermodynamic]

I was reading a list that rates parrots on talking ability and Blue crowns are rated as the worst. I wanted to see how everyone else's BCC talking ability was compared to other parrots. Sherlock my BCC knows a few phrases hello, good bird, give me a kiss, bye bye, wolf whistle, loud kissing sound, a loud hmmm, whose my baby bird. Sometimes they can be hard to understand.

Mine says "peek a boo" but when I first rescued him he only said "peek boo" and that sounded like something you'd hear on Comedy Central or FX...

He wolf whistles, says "I love you", kisses (in two ways), laughs and whines (as appropriate to the emotions he picks up on), can mimic simple tunes... sometimes it's gruff but the cadence is there. He even flies and lands on my finger at times...

Can't believe he was abandoned...

 

[ACE209]

Today Sherlock shocked my whole family. My dad stubbed his toe on the table and let out a huge f bomb. Sherlock laughed and repeated it. I think that's the first time anyone has cussed around him and funny how fast he picked that up but has trouble with pretty bird SMH shameful bird.

 

[JamesC]

Yeah. But it was such a loud, energetic and fun word! It had to be a good thing!

I suppose you will have to do the ignore and turn away when he says it routine now. I've never had a bird that learned any bad words but I've heard that it can help reduce the number of times he drops that bomb.

 

[ACE209]

I hasn't repeated it yet but I'm sure it will burst out again. He's in a weird mimic everything stage right now he's had these before the words never stick but he copies everyone.

 

[Buttons]

Lampshade says Hello pretty clearly when she hears a phone ringing, sometimes she even says it if I'm holding a cell phone! She seems to have learned words before we adopted her (2007) and hasn't picked up any new words since.