budgies talk?

[cassiepengo]

i had my bird for almost a month, thinking he was a lovie. then someone told me my profile pic was a budgie, so now my lovebird is a budgie. i felt like an ass not knowing that till now well i started my research all over again, and i discovered budgies can speak..... its supposed to be rare, though.... i think my budgie is still too small to try, but im excited!! do any of your budgies talk?? tel me how you taught them, i really wanna try!! thanks!

 

[SpotsandSally]

I think that it's not rare for them to speak, as much as rare for them to be good at it. But perhaps it's rare to talk, period.

You have a very pretty budgie. Ours don't talk, but they pretty noises, haha. How friendly is yours? Ours are very wild, and well... Those beaks can hurt! Hehe.

 

[Mike17]

Ours talks, about 6-8 words- and learned them very quickly, but as part of a mixed flock, he then preferred to learn the calls of the other birds.

 

[strudel]

From what I've read, males are more likely to talk "people" than females. Talking budgies are quite common over here, I think, but they won't talk "people" if they've got budgies to talk "budgie" to.

How old is your bird? Do you know yet whether he is a boy? You teach them by repeating the same thing over and over.

 

[Mike17]

i had my bird for almost a month, thinking he was a lovie. then someone told me my profile pic was a budgie, so now my lovebird is a budgie. i felt like an ass not knowing that till now well i started my research all over again, and i discovered budgies can speak..... its supposed to be rare, though.... i think my budgie is still too small to try, but im excited!! do any of your budgies talk?? tel me how you taught them, i really wanna try!! thanks!

Cassie, some older people in Australia call budgies lovebirds, so you aren't entirely incorrect. I have no idea why the terminology is present in India also, perhaps a legacy of British English

 

[QuakerMom]

Cassie, your budgie looks like a male. I tried clicking on your picture to see if it would make the pic bigger but it just went to your profile, haha.

He's beautiful!

 

[MomtoPercy]

I have an 8year old male budgie and he has never spoken. He's very chirpy and always has lots to say at the wild birds outside. He also has solo arias in his cage in the middle of the night . But speaking, nope.

 

[Blueridge]

Budgies can easily talk if you spend enough time talking to it. I had a budgie when I was 7 or so and I could never get him to talk though.

Btw he looked just like yours and I named her Windy because she looked like the sky. My cousin had a white budgie and named her Cloudy. And my grandfather had a yellow budgie and named her Sunny.

 

[thekarens]

Look at disco the parakeet on YouTube. The Guinness book of world records holder for talking was a budgie.

 

[Maria_Metropolis]

Look at disco the parakeet on YouTube. The Guinness book of world records holder for talking was a budgie.

I heard that Budgies are in the top five of talking birds. I really think people underestimate their intelligence and ability to be a great pet, in comparison to a larger bird. I hear if you work with them, you would be surprised how much personality and intelligence is in such a little package.

I would love to get a Budgie one of these days.

Disco is awesome and he was even on the Today Show. However, I don't think people should expect their Budgie to talk as good as Disco, and some might not talk at all. That doesn't mean they can't be a great pet though.

 

[strudel]

Cassie, your budgie looks like a male. I tried clicking on your picture

I don't think her avatar photo is her bird, Bamboo. In the other thread, she said that she'd found a stock image of a bird that looks like her Bamboo because she didn't yet have a photo. That's where the confusion came in as to whether she had a budgie or the "other" lovebird, because it wasn't a photo of her bird but one who looked similar.

 

[GaryBV]

I love parakeets - i love that they are smaller, and I love that their patterns can be so varied, and I love that they come in so many colors, and that they are relatively easy to care for. They have so much going for them no wonder that they are so popular (well... it helps that they are also so reasonably priced).

 

[cassiepengo]

hey guys!!! thanks for sharing all that! im not very sure how old bamboo is, because the pet store said he was "medium" years old. the pet store also said he was a male, but i doubt that, because bamboo has a light pinkish-purplish cere. so its either that hes a girl, or maybe hes still too small. and yeah, my profile pic is not really bamboo, but it looks just like him, so you can take it as bamboo....i need to get pics of him real soon!! thanks again, you are all being so nice!! bamboo says thanks, even though the pic isint him!! he dusnt look that good, trust me

 

[strudel]

said he was "medium" years old.

What's that supposed to mean? If he's young and his cere hasn't coloured up yet, the pet shop may not have a clue whether he's a boy. Because people wanting a "talker" want boys, they might just tell everybody that the budgie they are buying is a boy. Whatever he turns out to be, boy or girl, people-talking or just budgie-talking, he sounds lovely and you obviously love him and have given him a good home.

 

[cassiepengo]

hehe!! yeah, he actually said "hes a medium bird" lol! well i dont think the pet store knows that they can talk. i dont think anyone knows that around here. i got him as a "lovebird" remember?? all the stores around here call them lovebirds

 

[strudel]

Maybe the pet store assistant meant size, rather than age?

 

[cassiepengo]

yeah, maybe. i actually did ask him to find me a young bird. maybe he dint get it. his english wuz pretty bad but i dont see how that can happen. almost all the birds were the same size. budgies dont get big, ive noticed!

 

[wink]

My budgie hasn't spoken yet but he has been mimicking lots of sounds that he hears around the house so I guess he'll start talking pretty soon. YYYYYYAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[cassiepengo]

yay for you, wink! thats sweet!

 

[strudel]

almost all the birds were the same size. budgies dont get big, ive noticed!

medium as compared to different types of birds (like finches would be small, macaws would be large). Maybe he was just spouting nonsense. Anyway, you got a nice little bird despite the assistant's "assistance".