Rico_Tiel
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So, I have a budgie (cricket) and I got her in May. I think she’s a she, but now I’m starting to think she might be a he? Anyway…
I believe she is mimicking my cockatiel, Rico. And this just started today. She makes a quiet, version of Rico’s fear/angry-at-the-human screech. At least, it sounds that way to me. Today, I was playing L4D2 on the couch, and I would think I hear Rico out of his cage, shrieking about something outside of the window (I sometimes forget to latch his cage, I know, it’s pretty stupid of me to do. But I have been getting better about it.), and I will go in and check, and Rico is in his latched cage. I would go back to the couch, and hear them making noise, and then…. SKREEEE! SKREEE! like Rico’s shrieks. I investigate, rinse and repeat. Until I get the idea to listen in. I press my ear against to door, and it’s coming from cricket. It’s so convincing.
Is mimicry normal for hens? She isn’t DNA tested but she looks and behaves like a hen, but she mimics Rico so accurately like a male.
I believe she is mimicking my cockatiel, Rico. And this just started today. She makes a quiet, version of Rico’s fear/angry-at-the-human screech. At least, it sounds that way to me. Today, I was playing L4D2 on the couch, and I would think I hear Rico out of his cage, shrieking about something outside of the window (I sometimes forget to latch his cage, I know, it’s pretty stupid of me to do. But I have been getting better about it.), and I will go in and check, and Rico is in his latched cage. I would go back to the couch, and hear them making noise, and then…. SKREEEE! SKREEE! like Rico’s shrieks. I investigate, rinse and repeat. Until I get the idea to listen in. I press my ear against to door, and it’s coming from cricket. It’s so convincing.
Is mimicry normal for hens? She isn’t DNA tested but she looks and behaves like a hen, but she mimics Rico so accurately like a male.