Can your bird whistle?

[Sandy19]

My six year old daughter doesn't know how to whistle so she pretends to do the "come here" and "cat call" whistle with her voice. If you couldn't whistle as a kid you probably remember doing the same thing.

Peanut knows how to whistle perfectly because birds instinctively do that, but she mimics my daughter instead. Maybe it's just me, but I find it hilarious that she stopped whistling and is making pretend whistles instead.

 

[WilliamKenyon]

Cute! Mango whistles the Adams family theme and some others

 

[Owlet]

Lincoln knows a bunch of random whistles a long with cat calls. And the whistle we use to call the dogs.

 

[ChristaNL]

Japie has some glorious whistles from his owner-before-the-owner-who-rehomed him with me -- so I've been getting lessons from him!


That man could whistle!
Not just calls but loops, trillers the works.


Not as great as these guys, but getting close:


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaPoBhiMkgs"]Roger Whittaker - Finnish Whistler - YouTube[/ame]
(and no guitar)


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51nfpGY_AJk"]What a World Champion Whistler Sounds Like | National Geographic - YouTube[/ame]
(and the pro of course )


My friend is teaching me to do the whistle-with/on your fingers,
one of the things I could *not* do as a kid no matter how hard I tried.
We were also whistling on acorn-shells, seashells, blades of grass, doing owlsounds by blowing on our thumbs with cupped hands etc. - no problem, but that lovely piercingly loud and clear one.. no way.
(I got my tongue-position wrong - know that now, still cant do it 9 out of 10 times)


OP: Grinn I love the fact your parrot prefers to to the human fake-whistle instead, SO cute.

 

[MonicaMc]

I had a female cockatiel that could whistle... I on the other hand, even as an adult, still can't whistle. Obviously, not something she picked up from me! I don't know who she *did* pick it up from..

 

[smbrds]

My dad taught Baby a long, somewhat loud, run-on whistle in the early 2000s....he still does it to this day! He also does the wolf whistle and a few whistles he made up on his own and with his squeaky voice that sounds like whistles! He can combine several given the moment and time!