Mumbling?

[dknight8919]

Do your parrots seem to mumble? Punky does quite a bit, he doesnt talk very much but it seems like he mumbles alot of stuff we cant understand, does your parrot do this too?

Input appreciated

 

[roxynoodle]

They do it a lot when they are practicing new words or sounds but don't feel ready to try them out on you yet. Some will mumble into their food bowl for the echo, or with their head under or in a toy. My Nanday will mumble a lot when she doesn't feel like making the effort to speak clearly. My zon makes a lot of low cooing type sounds, sometimes when he's sleeping.

 

[Neravas]

codex mumbles all the time when im not in the room

 

[suncon97]

Pearl mumbles to the radio and sometimes to us at dinner time.

 

[Spiritbird]

Especially true of my GCC. He sounds like a little old man when he mumbles in the evening just before bedtime.

 

[roxynoodle]

Sometimes 2 or more birds will mumble to each other almost like they don't want you to overhear their conversation, lol!

My Nanday also sounds like a little old man when she mumbles. She has this tiny, scratchy, kind of deep voice when she does it and often I can't make out any words. She will sometimes talk for 5 minutes straight but it's unintelligible to me. When she makes the effort she actually has a rather high pitched voice.

One thing I know about macaws is that they tend to speak in a manly voice if taught to talk by a man, and tend to use a woman's voice if taught to speak by a woman.

I saw a budgie on TV last night that had a deep, gangster voice. I totally cracked up because I had never heard one use such a deep voice before. He kept saying, "That's ridiculous!"

 

[Bright Star]

Oh yes, lots of mumbling, then he'll break out a 'Hi Guys!' Just like babies, parrots practice their sounds. I think Finn does most of his mumbling when he's preening

 

[Pedro]

Just a matter of interrest aviary parrots also mumble & twitter among themselves. So i would think it is a natural thing for our parrots to do. The next step is to mimic us humans because they are living with us, class us as their flock so actually learn to be almost human by mimicing our speech.

Funny enough all my parrots that can talk have different tones they use. The eclectus & SC Too use different tones in their speech. The Zon male has a deep voice but the hen has a girly voice. I don't think it really has anything to do with which gender has trained the bird rather than the bird listening to the different voice tones it hears. Be it radio, telly or visitors.

 

[oled]

Mumbling is a good sign, he is trying to emitate something

 

[JensFlock]

Yes, mine mumble new words before they blurt them out. I guess it's the way they practice.
Sometimes they mumble whole conversations. It's so cute.

 

[TurquoiseMel]

Loqui mumbles all the time, most often right before he goes to sleep.I tell people he's saying his prayers for the night lol C: