Do your birds talk?

[rheashard2]

The strangest noises my budgies make are by the male English ones. They make weird croaking sounds. Budgies seem to throw their voices, too, because I often can't tell where their sounds are coming from and they barely open their beaks so I have to watch their throats move.

I'd like to see(hear) that! I've read birds are natural ventriloquists. They make sounds naturally the way a human ventriloquist works to master. I bet it can be confusing to locate sound source. (Knocking on my head) I hope a certain CAG doesn't take an intrest.

 

[rheashard2]

I thought it was normal for parrots to give signiture sounds (sometimes embarrassing) to their flock members. The cutest is the sound Nameliss assigned for after vet visit. Sighing...ooh boy ...sighing...whooo...oooh boy and more sighing. Isn't it normal for signature sounds, words etc?

 

[nkrbkr]

I thought it was normal for parrots to give signiture sounds (sometimes embarrassing) to their flock members. The cutest is the sound Nameliss assigned for after vet visit. Sighing...ooh boy ...sighing...whooo...oooh boy and more sighing. Isn't it normal for signature sounds, words etc?

I’d be interested to know this as well. Ava seems to make her “begging” sound mostly with me along with baby bird head bobbing.

 

[cnyguy]

A few times when I wasn't in the room it sounded like Nelson was saying "baby bird," something I never said to him. This afternoon when he was chattering he was saying "pretty baby," clear enough to understand. Lots of "pretty birds" and "pretty, pretty, prettys" too.

I've written before about the talking ability of my three previous parrots. Scooter the CAG had the clearest speaking voice and spoke in several different voices, including mine. She didn't have a big vocabulary and preferred imitating sounds. George the YCA didn't have a huge vocabulary either, but he did know several words and phrases and he liked to mix them up. His rearranged phrases included "Pretty cracker," and "Do you like bird?" which was his variation on "do you like that?" He could say his name and he called everyone George.

QP Ralph had the biggest vocabulary of the three. He wasn't really talkative, but he knew and understood lots of words and mostly used them in context.

Of course Nelson is still learning and it should be interesting to find out what new words and phrases he comes up with.

 

[AprilRobin]

If I carefully open the door of the bird room at night, after their bed time/"lights out", I can hear Sprite mumbling gibberish with scattered mentions of "vegetables, vegetables".