Off the wikipedia site I found this little blurb...interesting..I did not know. When I had my parakeets..."Bobo and Joker" I was young and I certainly didn't give them enough credit! If only I knew THEN what I know now with my new birds.....
Anyway, from the wikipedia site:
Male specimens of budgerigars are considered one of the top five talking champions amongst parrot species, alongside the
African Grey Parrot, the
Amazon parrot species, the
Eclectus Parrot and the
Ring-necked Parakeet.
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A budgerigar named Puck holds the world record for the largest vocabulary of any bird, at 1,728 words. Puck, a male budgerigar owned by American Camille Jordan, died in 1994, with the record first appearing in the 1995 edition of
Guinness World Records.
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In 2001, recordings of a budgerigar called Victor got some attention from the media. Victor's owner, Ryan B. Reynolds of Canada, states that Victor was able to engage in contextual conversation and predict the future.
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Though some believe the animal was able to predict his own death as was claimed,
[31] further study on the subject is difficult without the bird. The recordings still remain to be verified by scientific analysis.
[32] Critics argue that Victor's speech in the recordings is not coherent enough to be determined as spoken in context.
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ROFLOLOL!!
he barks and whistles a tune my husband taught him our eclectus mylah talks a lot and has just started making up sentences that sometimes just don't make sence
