Do your birds do tricks or talk?

[TGarcia]

I have a Blue Quaker that talks non-stop, and sings. Also if you are watching something funny on tv and he hears laughing...that's it. He has to put his 2 cents in too. LOL I am shocked at how fast and just how much Ziggy has learned since we've had him. He also has picked up on a few NOT SO NICE words, which when he says them we tell him that's not nice don't say that....and now when he does say them....he repeats that, but still says the words. LOL

 

[flgardengirl]

Our yellow nape amazon is a total clown. He sings and repeats stuff he hears on tv. He can say anything he hears, especially if it gets him a lot of attention. He says stuff he hears the older kids watching on Family Guy, Boondocks, and Southpark etc. The other day he was yelling, "Pull my finger!" lol. MY dd has been wanting a car so he starting saying he wanted a car too. We asked him if he was gonna drive it and he replied "Yeah". He acts just like one of the kids, we have had him @ 16 years. He was a pet store rescue and talks spanish and makes all kinds of animal noises (dogs, cats, potbelly pig, crows like a rooster etc.) He likes to do the potbelly pig snort thing and then yells "dirty pig!" That gets him lots of laughs so he will do it even more.
He likes to call the cats to his cage, saying, "Here kitty kitty". Then if they come up to the cage he tries to bite them and cackles his evil witch laugh. His tricks include hanging upside down and saying "Batbird" (kinda singing it like the Batman song). He also likes to hang on his perch by his beak and hold his feet together and kick them. He does this when he sees someone or another bird he likes.

 

[Sassymygirl]

I have a parakeet, Sunny that can say: "Hi" or my name: "Claire!" when he wants something....my Blue parakeet, Sky is the one that does the tricks, well not anymore...a coon got him last year

I'd say, climb he would climb something near him, then I would say spin. He would spin around. He was always with me

 

[Stone Horse Mastiff]

We have a Blue & Gold Mccaw-Belle, she is about 5 years old and talks to me when she thinks I'm not listening!

 

[triplebbirds]

Ok my green cheek conure, pugzy-butt says..... Hi puggy butt..... whatcha-doin'.....pretty bird....puggy bird......nummy nummy nummy(in her food dish).......puggy bite you(she warns before she does it and never hard *knock on wood*.......beaks are for talking not for biting.....i love you.....mom.....dad....budgie......booger.....bear

All my other green cheeks say hi puggy butt.

My quakers says vairous things but hi puggy butt is one of them. Pugzy tought them all to say it. Shrek and fiona will say "i love you" then shrek dances and fionia yells "stop it" then they kiss AKA feed each other with kissy noises and then laugh about it.

Lucky, the ecletus, says "hi" Lucky's a good boy"

Then almost all the cockatiels will say pretty bird.

it seems that tricks are not a top priority at this point. Those people that thave toddlers are familiar with the uh oh game that the birds all play.

 

[spotsplus]

I have a 6 year old Eclectus. "Joseph" talks just like me and often people think it's me talking. He says "how ya doin?", "What are you up to?, You going to eat that?, Hello handsome, what's that all about?, what was that?, bedtime, lunchtime, step up, hello-hello-hello, my name is joseph- eclectus are great! and many others

He has a video out on you tube with him talking

Tammie

 

[77horses]

My family has a bunch of Parakeets, we used to have 2 normal gray Cockatiels, Brady and Moss, who were brothers. But then Brady escaped outside and never came back.

He was a real character, though...

Very sarcastic and lots of attitude.

When someone walked by he would swing his head down as if to scoop something up, then he would make a loud chirp sound. It was so funny! He would tap his food dish and his perch and the side of his cage if he heard any tapping noise, and he liked to chirp and bob his head. He never learned to talk, he just made really funny chirping, whistling, and clicking noises and liked to bob his head and "take a bow" (the scooping head motion) and tapping things with his beak. I still miss him, even if he wasn't the nicest bird...If anyone put their hand up to him, he would hiss and scream at it and then bite it REALLY hard (hard enough to make it bleed, which happened a couple times...

).

Moss, on the other hand, is still learning to talk a little. When I say, "Take a bow!" He will often bow his head down and let me scratch it.

He's still getting the hang of it...He will mostly only do it when he wants to.

On nice, sunny days, he will make a variety of loud melodies that we never taught him. Maybe the people before who owned him taught him and Brady? We got them only in 2008 on Christmas Eve, so neither really learned much. Moss also does the tapping his beak thing like Brady used to. He can whistle and can almost say, "Pretty pretty bird!" But it sounds more like a whistle that goes to that tune. He hasn't learned to sound out the words yet.


Oh and Moss and most of the Parakeets will eat from my hand.

They often beg for treats (pieces of bread, lettuce, anything really) and are so spoiled!

 

[tammyd57]

I have a Blue Front Amazon Parrot, Rusty, who is 23 years old. I've had him since he was 6 months old. A few years ago I started writing down all the things he says and sings, when I got to around 300 I gave up! He has a HUGE vocabulary and has been teaching my 2 Parakeets a lot of words. The Parakeets will only repeat what they hear Rusty say, never anything I try to teach them. The only thing I have never been able to get Rusty to say is "Good Morning" I've tried to get him to say that all his life and he won't even try. He mimics all kinds of animals, cries like a baby, crows, does commercials from tv, sings like Elvis and Ray Charles (even does the head sway thing LOL), loves rock & roll, dances, pretends to be a vacuum cleaner, he LOVES the sound of aluminum foil being ripped off the roll and mimics that sound perfectly (my dog hates that sound and goes nuts, so Rusty torments her with it & then laughs at her), he can whisper a lot of the words he says, he can do several different doorbell chimes, there's a song I really like that has a long saxophone solo that he can do...........
I could go on & on about him, he's very talented and I love him to pieces

The only problem I have is that he has never consented to being held. He loves getting petted but has always refused to be picked up. He doesn't like being out of his house at all so I got him the biggest parrot cage I could find, it's 6' tall and almost 3' wide and round.