Where does time go, right?
Perjo is two years old tomorrow. I've been so lucky to have a well behaved and healthy bird, especially considering I had never owned a parrot before I decided to pick her.
She's not an advanced talker yet, but she is a superb whistler and really has great melodic abilitie along with an ability to understand intonation which has helped us create our own vocabularly via whistles. Words like thank you, you're welcome, and where are you. She does these in the form of a whistle instead of saying the words. If I say "where are you" or "Perjo" in a long drawn out call she responds with a long drawn out whistle essentially aying I'm over her. She does the Andy Griffith theme, she does the Bogey March whistle (Breakfast Club), she does all sorts of short jingles from TV or radio like ESPN (da da daaa, da da daa), Old Spice whistle and she's dong some of them in the form of clicks too.
She's learned 4-5 colors, we use old plastic bottle caps. I will present two caps of different colors and ask her to pick the one that is a specific color and she gets it right about 90% of the time. We just started doing it with three different colored caps this past month.
It's actually kind of hard to decide how to make her day a little more special, seeing as they are typically so routine and Perjo is so cautious. Adding new toys wouldn't make her day special it would probably make it terrifying, HA!
I think I'm going to make a new batch of birdie bread and add a little more stuff, and I've wanted to try using some flaxseed meal instead of just flaxseed. Maybe substitute one egg for some flaxmeal.
Happy birthday Perjo.
Perjo is two years old tomorrow. I've been so lucky to have a well behaved and healthy bird, especially considering I had never owned a parrot before I decided to pick her.
She's not an advanced talker yet, but she is a superb whistler and really has great melodic abilitie along with an ability to understand intonation which has helped us create our own vocabularly via whistles. Words like thank you, you're welcome, and where are you. She does these in the form of a whistle instead of saying the words. If I say "where are you" or "Perjo" in a long drawn out call she responds with a long drawn out whistle essentially aying I'm over her. She does the Andy Griffith theme, she does the Bogey March whistle (Breakfast Club), she does all sorts of short jingles from TV or radio like ESPN (da da daaa, da da daa), Old Spice whistle and she's dong some of them in the form of clicks too.
She's learned 4-5 colors, we use old plastic bottle caps. I will present two caps of different colors and ask her to pick the one that is a specific color and she gets it right about 90% of the time. We just started doing it with three different colored caps this past month.
It's actually kind of hard to decide how to make her day a little more special, seeing as they are typically so routine and Perjo is so cautious. Adding new toys wouldn't make her day special it would probably make it terrifying, HA!
I think I'm going to make a new batch of birdie bread and add a little more stuff, and I've wanted to try using some flaxseed meal instead of just flaxseed. Maybe substitute one egg for some flaxmeal.
Happy birthday Perjo.
