Look who's talking!

[zERo]

Yes, the title says it all! Tom, my Gcc has started to talk and mimic. He's coming up on a year and a half old so I kinda expected it 😁
I can't video him though!!! He stops the second he sees my phone, sometimes he just stops and sometimes he gets mad at me for getting my phone out in his godly presence.
His current list of sounds and words that have developed over the past 2 months:

Baby bird
l Love you
Clicking his tongue
Kiss kiss (similar to clicking but more elongated)

Of course whistling and purring when I do, but he's done that since he was a baby.

There is one sound he's mimicking that I have a hard time hearing too often, and unfortunately for me, it happens EVERY SINGLE DAY MULTIPLE TIMES A DAY!!!
It's my male cockatiel Ryuk, not his displaying, which is relatively quiet, he has this certain scream, no, no, not a SCREM. A really grating scream that he does for no reason I can pinpoint, it's very shrill and I heard Tom trying to copy him.

Ah, the troubles of a conure.
Just wanted to share lol 😊

 

[maddox]

That is amazing! I am trying to get my GCC Maddox to start talking. Any tips?

 

[zERo]

That is amazing! I am trying to get my GCC Maddox to start talking. Any tips?

Saying a phrase with lots of emotion helped, though with Gcc people say age has a lot to do with them beginning to talk, some people think they have to be close to 2 yrs. and some say 3 yrs.

 

[maddox]

Saying a phrase with lots of emotion helped, though with Gcc people say age has a lot to do with them beginning to talk, some people think they have to be close to 2 yrs. and some say 3 yrs.

Maybe that is part of it. Maddox is only nine months so he might be a bit too young. I'm going to keep working on it though!

 

[Rozalka]

Saying a phrase with lots of emotion helped, though with Gcc people say age has a lot to do with them beginning to talk, some people think they have to be close to 2 yrs. and some say 3 yrs.

I'm pretty sure, my friend's GCC learnt saying before 2 y\o. I don't remember how old was Zenek

 

[T00tsyd]

Just keep talking. I try to teach Syd new words of my choice but forget it. He chooses his own! His latest is a sort of chortle if I laugh out loud. He puts his head down and looks as though he is going to topple over. Invariably on my shoulder he chortles and then tucks his head into my cheek. So funny!

The most annoying at present is if I am on the phone. He rushes to my ear, nips it as if seeking attention while 'talking' rapidly as if he wants to be in on the conversation. Every word of his vocabulary comes out until I can barely hear the caller. Changing ears simply results in a race track around the back of my neck as he chases the phone from side to side. In the end I have to swish him off into flight for some peace at which he gives me the death stare from a distance.
Who would live with such a creature? I guess all of us!

 

[zERo]

I'm pretty sure, my friend's GCC learnt saying before 2 y\o. I don't remember how old was Zenek

Yeah, Tom isn't quite two, so I think it just depends on the bird, rather than their age.

 

[onamom]

That’s so exciting!!! I hope my baby Ona talks one day. The closest she does now is chirps that match the tone and syllables of “goodnight” at bedtime

 

[T00tsyd]

Has anyone tried a whistle? I am no great whistler by any means but that endless flock call if you are out of sight drives me crazy. I have found a 2 tone whistle that I can usually manage and when he is getting more and more desperate if I whistle back to him he goes silent as if assessing. Then it becomes a game. I whistle and he copies the tune. So there we are back and forth until I reappear. Now I could be out in the garden whistling to an unseen bird in the house - the neighbours fortunately already know that I am nuts.

 

[Rozalka]

I whistle and he copies the tune.

same...

 

[zERo]

Has anyone tried a whistle? I am no great whistler by any means but that endless flock call if you are out of sight drives me crazy. I have found a 2 tone whistle that I can usually manage and when he is getting more and more desperate if I whistle back to him he goes silent as if assessing. Then it becomes a game. I whistle and he copies the tune. So there we are back and forth until I reappear. Now I could be out in the garden whistling to an unseen bird in the house - the neighbours fortunately already know that I am nuts.

Yeah my Gcc will whistle and wait for me to answer or I'll do the same, he's decent at copying whistles too

 

[wrench13]

One can never tell what a parrot will pick up. Endless repetition can work sometimes, Salty learned "Little Brown Jug" like that and my Max (RIP) learned Beethoven's 9th intro like that. But Salty will pick things up almost immediately when I play videos of Indian Ring Necks talking, for some reason; their squeaky toy clown voices hit a chord with him. You guys might try that, playing videos of different species of parrots talking. You never know.