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bird brain
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I've been wondering... Lucy is 7-8 months old now. If she ever talks, does anyone have an idea on how she might be when she starts? We have a Macaw in another room down the hall from Lucy and those 2 yell back and fourth alot. Angel has even learned Lucy's screams. OH LUCKY US!! Angel is louder.. LOL I'm hoping Lucy may even learn a few words from Angel and Angel knows "hello", "hi", "bye-bye", "I love you", "cracker", "good girl" and loves to bark. She also loves to repeat the same word over and over very fast. LOL A few weeks ago all we heard was "cracker" in 100 different ways for a solid week! I'm hoping Lucy will pick up on some of this. Atleast I think we do!! LOL |
Wednesday March 29, 2006 3:35 am |
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Cheeta
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LOL... those two sounds like an earfull when they get going!!!
Different birds are different in their ability to talk. i'm sure you realised that. Corellas aren't really known for their talking ability. they can pick up stuff, but not as much as say the macaw. My Apollo started saying his first word when he was around 6-7 months old.. he's now about a year and half, and he can say... Apollo, Polo (short for his name), step up, cuddle cuddle, come on, good boy, hello *he combines the two together and we get 'hell boy' as well!!LOL) and says hello in a different tone to when we answer the phone. he barks, coughs and sneezes.. i've heard him cluck like the chooks way back when he first picked it up, but haven't heard him cluck like that since... he also makes a lot of noise that i have no idea what they mean.... 
lucy's probably talking, but not to an extent that you understand. just gotta listen carefully... as some of Apollo's word aren't the clearest and only myself and hubby can tell what he's saying by listening the tone that he says it.... he more imitates the tone of our voice than the actual pronouciation of the word.  |
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Wednesday March 29, 2006 4:07 am |
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bird brain
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Just goes to show ya never know.. We were told they are the better talker of Toos. We really don't care. She's our Lucy.
Yes it does get loud around here. Think of adding 2 Sun Conures, 1 Teil and a Parrotlet in on it. We keep waiting for the police to knock on the door with complaints. Our neighbors are gtreat! So far!! We haven't built the outside avairies yet.. LOL |
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Wednesday March 29, 2006 4:16 am |
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Cheeta
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True that they're better talking in tooz, but tooz aren't great talkers in general!!! lol... then there are always the exceptions.
oh new additions.. wow, that's cool... i hope those neighbour stays great for you!! lol.... i was like that with my birds, but i've talked to some of my neighbours, and some say they love the budgie noises, and don't mind apollo's yelling!! lol.. lucky me. |
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Wednesday March 29, 2006 4:28 am |
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Fluffy Sue
Joined: 13 Jan 2005
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I can't recall when Zazu started to talk. He just did one day and knocked me off my socks LOL!
I think it was before he was a year old? I don't know? |
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Wednesday March 29, 2006 9:18 am |
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Kellyanne
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Joined: 24 Feb 2006
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My umbrella cockatoo Calypso started speaking at around 9 months. He had a great vocaubulary (I thought so anyway.... I was such a proud mum) He said about 25 words. Every morning I would take off his blanket and say Hello Calypso - then one day he just said hello back to me. It was amazing... Then he would jsut pick up words that he heard frequently like his name, good boy, good bird and be quiet and be good.... haha |
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Thursday March 30, 2006 4:26 pm |
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cockatoo
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My Citron cockatoo started talking at around 9 months old and that's a few weeks after bringing her home.
She started by saying hello and went from there.
She can utilize her whole vocabulary now. WHen it gets dark or she is ready to go to sleep, she says it's time for the pretty bird to go nite nite, or she calls the airplane the biiiig pretty bird. She will se a wildbird outside the window and she'll say see the bird, look at the bird. |
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Saturday April 1, 2006 10:15 pm |
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bird brain
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Sometimes it seems like I start to wonder about these guys and they know it so they put my wondering to rest. Lucy is talking!! While I was chopping breakfast, I heard her say "hello", "hi' and maybe "whatca doing". When my partner gets home from work and is going thru the house to bed, she passes Lucy and our B&G . She always says hi or whatcha doing even tho it's 4:30 am just to let them know it's her walking by. They make a small sound and nothing more.If she says nothing, they get upset and scream. We think that's where Lucy is getting "whatcha doing". It's the sweetest sound and you are right Cheeta. I'm not sure if anyone else would understand what she said but we sure do! I am so tickled!! |
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Wednesday April 12, 2006 5:38 am |
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Cheeta
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hey, that's great to hear!! i'm sure in no time, lucy will be belting out other noises and words that she's picked up!! i do love their voices. sounds very nasaly to me.. hehe, or at least Apollo's like that anyway!!! lol |
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Wednesday April 12, 2006 8:41 am |
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Cathy
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Yay! Good job! And like Bih says, she'll probably be giving you an ear full from here on out |
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Wednesday April 12, 2006 11:53 am |
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cristia
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rosie (galah) is about 3 years old but not talking at all.not even mimic sounds from other birds (mostly pigeons) that are coming next to her.the only think she do is a short scream when im leaving the house.is any change of teach her some words? |
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Wednesday April 12, 2006 8:09 pm |
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Cheeta
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Joined: 06 Apr 2005
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Location: Australia |
hi Cristia
Welcome back. it's been awhile hasn't it?!!? how are you and and how's Rosie going?
Galah unfortunately is not known for their talking ability. i've seen may be two or three so far that says a word or two. My parents galah doesn't talk, he just screeches when he gets excited!! lol..
I guess the way to teach it would be to keep talking to her and hope for the best. Generally repeating a word, but in context to what you're doing at the time is better than just repeating words over and over and over again.
good luck!
cheers
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Thursday April 13, 2006 4:07 am |
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