Parrot owners, can you give some examples of your parrot using cognitive speech? I'm so impressed!?

Question

My baby African Grey is just four months old and isn't speaking yet, although she says pep up when she wants to step up onto your finger. How old was your bird when it started to speak. I've seen a cockatoo screaming HOORAY at 3 months. Can't wait to hear from you.

Answer 1

1. Parker makes a "liquid pouring noise" when I'm pouring my morning coffee.
2. When I am opening the front door to leave, Pepper says, "Come back".
3. When I am making a meal for my birds, Pepper says, "Thank you..."
4. When the phone rings, both Greys say, "Hello'.

5. At times, I won't hear someone knocking on the front door, but one or both will say, "Hello!".
Not all cognition is speech: When I ask Parker if he wants a shower, he gets all excited, flaps his wings and leaps onto my hand. this is sometimes accompanied by a resoounding, "whoooo!".
If I ask my Quaker if she liked her treat, she'll nod her head. If she didn't like it, she just looks at me.
I bought a "Jay-Jay the Jet Plane" Computer game for Parker. When the game sounded and he saw the planes flying around, he's say "Whoooahhh".
Just a few things. He does a lot of tricks, so there is speech recognition going on. That is cognitive recognition as well. But it's not speech.

The most amazing example of cognition is of course Alex...a beautiful example here:

http://www.pbs.org/saf/1201/video/watchonline.htm
Look at the video: Entertaining Parrots

And a really interesting one here:
http://www.sheldrake.org/nkisi/nkisi1_text.html

The last one I posted is of N'Kisi -owned by Amy Morgana who as been working with her Grey for years by simply talking to him as though he were a human. Jane Goodall met N'kisi and almost fell over. Be prepared, it's kind of unsettling.
Of course, to get to this level you have to spend an incredible amount of time with them, it usually takes 2 people and forget a day job!
But the field is absolutely facinating and the internet is loaded with material like this if you know where to look.

Answer 2

My Macaw 'Baby' is the commander of the house. That is what she likes to do and much of her speak reflects that. When ever I get out of sight or too far away she starts up with "come ere" as time goes by and I don't show up the fluxuation in her voice changes, more of a soft out drawn "Come heeeerrrre" ever so sweetly, losing her patients with me it turns to "COME HERE!" She loves to laugh and seems to do it at just the right times. Well to her. It is just not funny when you bend over to pick up a dropped ice cube, then raise up and hit your head on the freezer door. She seemed to find that hilarious. Fuego is inquisitive more of a seeker. Whatcha doin? usually when I am cooking or making noise where hee cannot see me. He developed 'polly wanna cracker - only when he wants a treat, not my idea, believe me, it is just so typical and I have no Polly. Fuego likes TV(sitcoms) Tim Allen and Austin Powers he can pick Tim Allen out even in a santa suit. Baby likes movies. The real Macaw, and lots of animal planet. Gosh, words just mean so little in comparison to sitting here.

Answer 3

Our Red Tailed Black Cockatoo, Bubby, is a bit simple. He sqawks and laughs and grasps and clicks but can't really talk. He tries but the Reds aren't very good talkers. He will do something naughty and then ask if you are OK, but you have to use your imagination to understand him. He nods a lot though.

Answer 4

When I check on all my birds at night, and it is dark, my African Gray will say, "Good night. See you in the morning." He only says this at night. He knows everyone's names and will call all four of my kids by name when they walk into the room. My B and G macaw knows when he has been bad and he will tell me, "Bad -bad bird" before I can scold him, so I will laugh instead of get cross. All my birds know what "do you want to go outside" means.

Answer 5

i admire parrot jokes too, sturdy stuff. The comedian tale is on the parrot nevertheless, because of the fact the gents ought to now no longer take care of to pay for to bid, on the larger cage, high quality seed, or state-of-the-paintings fowl bath. to no longer point out, the better half he had planed to purchase, the female, with the attractive plumage. properly nail me to the pearch

Answer 6

he says "hi john, how was your day at school?" when i come home from school"or how is the movie?" when i come home frome a movie or he just says "mail mail mail!!!" and keeps yelling that until u get the mail