- Jan 19, 2014
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- Parrots
- Red Bellied Parrot /
Ruppell's Parrot /
Bronze Winged Pionus /
English Budgie
I love hearing parrots talk. Currently, 2 of my 4 male birds talk (seems like maybe soon 3?), and of my past birds I had one other who talked.
Raven (Bronze Winged Pionus) is the only talker I've had who I find absolutely HILARIOUS!! The guy really has a sense of humor
It's both the things he says as well as the way his particular voice sounds...
1) First, he mimics a cough (on and on, can go on for an hour :52 but it's a super high pitched cough, that's not MY cough LOL!
2) He says his name often... Raven, Ray, or Ray-Ray said slowly... Sometimes preceded or followed by "Hiii!" He likes to say HIII!!! a lot... and sometimes a cute hello like "HELooow". He also loves to say Good Boy.
3) He now LOVES to say "vegetable, vegetable...vegetable". I think he likes saying it more than eating it haha. I have been TRYING and trying to record him saying it, but I just can't do it in time before he stops.
The absolutely HILARIOUS part is that he often chases Griffin around while either repeatedly doing the high pitch cough, or saying vegetable, vegetable! He will do it to Griffin for example when Griffin is bothering him, and they're kind of pecking back and forth bickering. Coughing in his face and saying vegetable repeatedly as he's trying to back him off! He's a weirdo lol. You'd have to see it It's incredibly hard to get a video of it.
Also hilarious are the things that catch me off guard, like things he doesn't regularly say, or how sometimes he says things with a demon-like growl! Like when he said "Get Ouuttt!!!" Lol, maybe it's just the gravely Pionus voice that gets a little more gravely at times :52:
The other day was the real shocker... I have absolutely NO IDEA where he could have picked this up... Funny that he was saying it right to Griffin's face, "***hole, ***hole,***hole!" :11: Griffin just sat there an shrugged it off lol. I'm telling you, no way could he have heard that word in the bird's room! I could be mistaken in what I'm hearing but I doubt it, he's not 100% as clear as a Grey, but it was clear enough that it REALLY sounded like that! Don was of course cracking up when I told him. We never say that ever :54:... lol, and it was not ever said near Raven. Funny anyway!
Raven (Bronze Winged Pionus) is the only talker I've had who I find absolutely HILARIOUS!! The guy really has a sense of humor
It's both the things he says as well as the way his particular voice sounds...
1) First, he mimics a cough (on and on, can go on for an hour :52 but it's a super high pitched cough, that's not MY cough LOL!
2) He says his name often... Raven, Ray, or Ray-Ray said slowly... Sometimes preceded or followed by "Hiii!" He likes to say HIII!!! a lot... and sometimes a cute hello like "HELooow". He also loves to say Good Boy.
3) He now LOVES to say "vegetable, vegetable...vegetable". I think he likes saying it more than eating it haha. I have been TRYING and trying to record him saying it, but I just can't do it in time before he stops.
The absolutely HILARIOUS part is that he often chases Griffin around while either repeatedly doing the high pitch cough, or saying vegetable, vegetable! He will do it to Griffin for example when Griffin is bothering him, and they're kind of pecking back and forth bickering. Coughing in his face and saying vegetable repeatedly as he's trying to back him off! He's a weirdo lol. You'd have to see it It's incredibly hard to get a video of it.
Also hilarious are the things that catch me off guard, like things he doesn't regularly say, or how sometimes he says things with a demon-like growl! Like when he said "Get Ouuttt!!!" Lol, maybe it's just the gravely Pionus voice that gets a little more gravely at times :52:
The other day was the real shocker... I have absolutely NO IDEA where he could have picked this up... Funny that he was saying it right to Griffin's face, "***hole, ***hole,***hole!" :11: Griffin just sat there an shrugged it off lol. I'm telling you, no way could he have heard that word in the bird's room! I could be mistaken in what I'm hearing but I doubt it, he's not 100% as clear as a Grey, but it was clear enough that it REALLY sounded like that! Don was of course cracking up when I told him. We never say that ever :54:... lol, and it was not ever said near Raven. Funny anyway!
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