Does anyone else’s parrots sing?

[kme3388]

My parrot does hum/sing. Not saying he’s good or anything. He tends to like music that has a lot of instruments, and isn’t autotuned. I’m not insulting autotuned music. It just doesn’t have the same effect on him. He can be beyond cranky at times, and if you sing to him it’s like he’s a cobra being swayed by the vibrations of music. Blue even sways side to side… it puts him into a different mood.

Like here he is listening to Metallica Sound of Silence. He’s reactive to it.

Has anyone else had these experiences with parrots?

 

[nkrbkr]

Ava sings, but mostly just made up “La La La las” & sing songy falsettos at the end of “peekaboo.” I’ll be interested to see if she starts to learn some songs.

 

[Jcas]

Aww, that’s cute, Blue! Love his little head bobbing
My Quaker sings his own little song but I don’t know what it is. The words/ sounds/ rhythm are always the same but not clear enough for me to understand. I call it his, “bee-do” song because that’s what it sounds like he’s saying! My budgies have never sung anything but bird songs, but my first budgie, Bogey, loved listening to Frank Sinatra!

 

[kme3388]

Blue just reminds me of these snakes that would otherwise attack but music puts them in some sort of mood. Singing to Blue usually “calms” him if he’s being “aggressive”.

 

[Vampiric_Conure]

Yvons sings, but I can't figure out where the tune is from. He's an opera singer, LOL! I sing 'Don't Cry for Me Argentina' and he seems to be interested. He even likes music with a heavy drum beat. He'll dance sometimes, LOL!

 

[wrench13]

Salty's a singer! Most times his own stuff, which is quite musical, but he also sings Little Brown Jug! I taught him that.

 

[wrench13]

Salty's a singer! Most times his own stuff, which is quite musical, but he also sings Little Brown Jug! I taught him that.

 

[Vampiric_Conure]

I used to have a cockatiel who sang 'if yer happy and you know it' and a bit of the Adams Family theme. He was a hoot.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

My cockatiel years ago sang (whistled) Happy Days are Here Again and another common old-time tune that I don't know the name of. Off-key and both songs mixed together.

My budgies like music and when I sing and dance to them but I've never seen one show that they had any rhythm. They never dance or sway. The Goffins Cockatoo I had danced like a typical 'too and would bounce like she had springs in her legs.

 

[GivemeSeedsorgivemeFlesh]

I am teaching Juliette to whistle and I think she is going to be a talker. She already sounds like she's picking up speech when she chatters.

 

[wrench13]

Pesonally I think if you start a parrot early on singing and talking, to get the first few tunes or words out of them, they tend to develop on their own better. We used one of those talk boxes initially when we got Salty for a few months, then discarded it.