Comments on: How To Teach a Bird To Talk http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/how-to-teach-a-bird-to-talk/ About finding balance in your life, connecting with who you are, and creating a lifestyle where you wake up each morning eagerly anticipating the day ahead. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:40:23 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: CherokeeCandy http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/how-to-teach-a-bird-to-talk/comment-page-1/#comment-10277 CherokeeCandy Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:14:10 +0000 http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/how-to-teach-a-bird-to-talk/#comment-10277 I bred parrots of all sizes for a few years and raised some as my own pets from the egg. Currently I have 3 Alexandrines, 3 African Grey Congos, 1 Sulfer Crested Cockatoo, 1 Gofin Cockatoo and recently lost my Double Yellow Head Amazon. These are my children. My children have a 65 in. wide screen television. During the day I will put on something in a low tone for them to watch. The congos pick up words from the television as well as from us and make their own sentences and comunicate with each other. Having 3 of them together in the same room they never have a boring moment. We live in California and Dakota my male congo ran to the front of the cage looked at me and said "I'm from Baltimore." He never got that from us. They are 4 years old now and their vocabs are beyond my expectation. To comment on the read up above about if a bird misspronounces a word do not correct that part but do the entire phrase over, I totally agree with. We watched the movie Meet the Faulkners. The young man is in the floor talking to the baby who has never said a word about his grandfather and calls him a A..-hole. The kid picks up on it and repeats it as if it were two seperate words. The next day Dakota kept saying it over and over. I refuse to have a bird that cusses. So the next day I decided to try to change it as if it were misspronounced. It sounds alot like Russell who is my brother in law. So on the 3rd. day whenever he would say A..-hole I would say Russ-ol To this day, when my brother in law comes over he is greeted with A..-hole Russ-ol Thanks for the read up, I did enjoy ... Can I bred parrots of all sizes for a few years and raised some as my own pets from the egg. Currently I have 3 Alexandrines, 3 African Grey Congos, 1 Sulfer Crested Cockatoo, 1 Gofin Cockatoo and recently lost my Double Yellow Head Amazon. These are my children. My children have a 65 in. wide screen television. During the day I will put on something in a low tone for them to watch. The congos pick up words from the television as well as from us and make their own sentences and comunicate with each other. Having 3 of them together in the same room they never have a boring moment. We live in California and Dakota my male congo ran to the front of the cage looked at me and said “I’m from Baltimore.” He never got that from us. They are 4 years old now and their vocabs are beyond my expectation.

To comment on the read up above about if a bird misspronounces a word do not correct that part but do the entire phrase over, I totally agree with.

We watched the movie Meet the Faulkners. The young man is in the floor talking to the baby who has never said a word about his grandfather and calls him a A..-hole. The kid picks up on it and repeats it as if it were two seperate words. The next day Dakota kept saying it over and over. I refuse to have a bird that cusses. So the next day I decided to try to change it as if it were misspronounced. It sounds alot like Russell who is my brother in law. So on the 3rd. day whenever he would say A..-hole I would say Russ-ol
To this day, when my brother in law comes over he is greeted with A..-hole Russ-ol

Thanks for the read up, I did enjoy … Can

]]> By: Sarah http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/how-to-teach-a-bird-to-talk/comment-page-1/#comment-9574 Sarah Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:34:15 +0000 http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/how-to-teach-a-bird-to-talk/#comment-9574 I have a green-cheek conure who talks. One time, while during a move to new town, he spent about 2-3 months with my mother's flock. She has a parakeet that is quite a talker, and when he came back home to me, he had picked up several new words from her! Do don't forget to mention that if you have multiple birds, they will definitely pick up words from each other. We did not intentionally set out to teach him words, but he picked up words and phrases that were said frequently to him or around him. He learned quickly to love our astonishment and attention when he said a new word. I have a green-cheek conure who talks. One time, while during a move to new town, he spent about 2-3 months with my mother’s flock. She has a parakeet that is quite a talker, and when he came back home to me, he had picked up several new words from her! Do don’t forget to mention that if you have multiple birds, they will definitely pick up words from each other. We did not intentionally set out to teach him words, but he picked up words and phrases that were said frequently to him or around him. He learned quickly to love our astonishment and attention when he said a new word.

]]> By: IngaG http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/how-to-teach-a-bird-to-talk/comment-page-1/#comment-9394 IngaG Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:23:02 +0000 http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/how-to-teach-a-bird-to-talk/#comment-9394 Having just read the original post and comments - I guess I am just bringing more evidence of scientific acceptance to what bird owners already know :) Having just read the original post and comments – I guess I am just bringing more evidence of scientific acceptance to what bird owners already know :)

]]> By: IngaG http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/how-to-teach-a-bird-to-talk/comment-page-1/#comment-9392 IngaG Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:19:53 +0000 http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/how-to-teach-a-bird-to-talk/#comment-9392 I read an article in the Scientific American (or SciAm Mind, can't remember now which one) about parrots. Large parrots are highly social with a significant life-span. Apparently, such evolutionary conditions lead to very well developed brains: unlike dogs and cats, parrots can pass the tests for rudimentary abstract thinking. They don't just learn the words - they can understand many of them, including day-to-day objects, colors and shapes. I read an article in the Scientific American (or SciAm Mind, can’t remember now which one) about parrots. Large parrots are highly social with a significant life-span. Apparently, such evolutionary conditions lead to very well developed brains: unlike dogs and cats, parrots can pass the tests for rudimentary abstract thinking. They don’t just learn the words – they can understand many of them, including day-to-day objects, colors and shapes.

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