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A friend for my cockatiel?
I have a 2 year old, very sweet, conversational male cockatiel that we adopted about 6 months ago. He is completely social and happy when out of his cage. He is out about 8-9 hours a daylight if not more. When he is not getting attention from...

A grill around budgies?
how much is a baby budgie normally my parents say 30-40 and mitt reid ones too

A honourable moniker for a wispy brown ring collar dove!! 10 points?
i got this beautiful ring neck dove nowadays and she is very friendly.. i have 3 cats named missy chubbs and chalko, so i close to different names.. i like them short to. these are two videos of her. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_ce9XwSy... ...

A serious problem beside my cocktails?
We've had these 2 cocktails for years now and were have a bit of a problem. We've treated right through out the years, but i have had a child that abused them nearly constantly. He may of been thinking that he be playing with them, but...

About child cockatiel and parents?
Ok so i had 2 males and one female. One of he males has be a long time permanent member and has paired beside the female. Originally alll three were living together in the aviary, but the topical male started becoming aggressive to the male which is...

About my first time cockatiel?
i got my bird about two and a half weeks ago. he is roughly speaking 5 months old. i have noticed that lately he is grinding his beak. is that mundane? he also has cold feet in the morning. but when i hold him he get warm...

About my parakeets' antenna (cere)?
A few weeks ago, my parakeets cere was starting to become the color white. It is actually brown, but now nearly half is white! Should I be worried, what does it mean!!please help!

About my rooster?please assistance?
a few weeks ago my pet rooster got kicked out of all of the group of chickens we own. besides him we have 3 other roosters, which are the 1s that see him out. now we see him wondering around the house by himself. now he lives...

About Parakeets? HELP?
I know for a fact that I'm getting a parakeet for my birthday. I need help, though (any minister to you can offer would be nice) . My first pet ended up in catastrophe, (he died), but I just need some advice. I know I'm getting a...

About peach face love bird colors,?
I have a young love bird with the common dark green wings body and breast and the head is lone a dark pink or light red over the throat, a little street lamp red above the beak .and the usual blue green back and tail. Will...

Accelertation of the barb?
How would I do this problem?Because of air resistance a feather's initial velocity was 9.8 m/s. Its final velocity was 5.4 m/s. It took 2 second for the feather to fall. What was the acceleration of the spike?

Adopting a bird...??
Anyone gone this route?What is commonly expected of an adoptee?I am going to meet a few birds tomorrow at the adoption agency.What kinds of questions will they ask me? What do they want to know?Any guidance appreciated!

Adopting a lilac-crowned Amazon copier tomorrow.?
I've always had birds as pets ranging from budgies to cockatiels, and this will be my first big parrot. I currently have no other birds and the only other pets I own are 3 rats who will live in another room. I've done a ton of research...

Adoption of budgie, parakeet?
My neice wants a parakeet (budgie) and I am well aware that there are several birds in shelters needing a home but I cannot find a budgie for adoption as any none have any or they want so much money for one that I could literally buy...

Advice going on for my parakeets?
I have 2 parakeets and the female won't let the mannish eat.When he tries she jumps down and pecks him in the herald.I gave him a seperate food cup and she won't let him eat out of that any.Why is she doing this?Do I need to get...

Advice on getting a pet Cockatoo?
I'm considering getting a Cockatoo as I've always loved birds & think they make great pets - but I'd really love any direction from people who have experience owing them.I've read up a lot on how to safekeeping for them, etc.I've owned smaller birds in the past...

Advice on putting budgies together?
i have a 3 month old budgie i dont know the sex i am thinking of getting him a friend will it be ok to have two contained by cage and can they be any sex thanx

African gray digging surrounded by dust?
i have a pair of african grays. they are abut the boy is 7 years old and the girl 6 years weak. they live together. will to day i clean them out, and relisd i had no beding for the bottom of the coop. will i put...

African Grey Behavior?
My almost 7 month old Congo African Grey will take a bit or two of her food shift to her water bowl take a drink than she will stand on her bowl and start throwing her water around, flapping her wing, jumps on her bars than climbs...

African Grey copier not conversation?
I just bought a Congo African Grey parrot four days ago from the parrots hawker, according to him he said the parrot were captured in the gummy forest. He's big and beautiful, a little scared but i find him fun when i nurture him. I hear most...

African grey my vet clipped one wing merely?
hi my african grey is months old and recently started biting me i spend most time with it too but it never bites my daughter who is out at arts school all day (we both shared rearing him from 4 weeks old) i took him to the...

African grey parrot... i know they gossip but...?
are there any NATURAL sounds that they make?like a nouns when their happy or in danger?whether so, what are they..? and what are they for/ what do they mean?

African grey parrot?
i have a african grey parrot...he's grey with red and red feathers all through this body...what kind of african grey would he be?

African grey... virtuous pets?
Hi, I'm looking to getting an african grey. do these birds make great pets? i know they are great talkers. are they social birds.?? any advice?

Aggressive cockatiel, bites me and other birds?
I have three birds. Cosmo, Charlie, and Ziggy.Cosmo is about more than 4 years old. He/she bites charlie and ziggy. he bites me too. im not certain if he is a male or female.cosmo bites ziggy more than charlie.charlie is 3 years mature and ziggy is about...

All joke aside.. How do birds mate? How can they?
I always pictured them rubbing there butts together while flapping their wings adjectives over the place, and lots of feathers .

Am i doing something wrong? 10 points whether you answer soon?
Hi, i recently got a Sun Conure yesterday and am wondering if i am doing something bleak to him. He isn't fully weaned yet, he will be finished hand-feeding from formula this friday. He is already starting to eat his dry food. I am wondering though,...

Am I doing this right?
I have added some carrots and cucumber, chopped up into cubes to my cockateils cage. Is it ok chopped up contained by cubes? And should I put it in the seed box where the guzzle or just leave it on the groud on a tray?

Am i the one and only entity on this planet who think flying is for the birds simply?
thats it. i really think airplanes are evil. i know alot of u crazy people will think im nuts, but whoever go up there is the one who risks there life contained by someone elses hands. i climb large trees for a living and cut them to...

Amazon parrot ingestion pomergranits?
can an orange winged amazon have a pomergranit fruit

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Teaching Birds to Talk

With some time and perseverance, it is not such a difficult job to teach a bird to talk.

Whichever species of bird is selected for training, it is preferable to buy young and if possible, hand-raised birds, between 2 and 6 months old. A bird's learning ability is not as rapid, the older it becomes. It is much more difficult to teach a wild or untrained adult bird, as its own calls or whistles will have been firmly implanted in its memory.

However, a grown bird still can learn, but the owner will have to use more patience in teaching words to it.

There is much variation in their ability to imitate the human voice, whether hand-raised or wild, young or adult. This faculty depends on the species selected, the owner's teaching technique and patience, and most important, tameness of the bird itself. Half the success is assured with a bird which is calm and gives you a bold look when you approach it.

The different species of Amazon Parrots from the American Tropics are good talkers, some better than others. Cockatoos can also be taught to talk. Ravens, which are really big black Crows, will talk. Young ones are sold very reasonably. Less proficient talkers are: Macaws, Cockatiels, Conures, Magpies, the Lesser or Malabar Hill Mynah, Grass Parakeet, English Starlings, Love Birds and the larger species of Parakeets.

To teach a bird to talk, constant repetition of a word or short phrase is necessary. This can be done at different times, such as before removing the cover from the cage in the morning. In the dark with no distractions, a bird will concentrate on listening and answering back. Repeating words at feeding time, or when giving it a preferred tidbit helps also.

At times, when you may be out of sight, you may hear your bird trying to enunciate some word or phrase. This is a good opportunity to repeat what you want it to learn, or if the bird seems to be attempting a different expression from what you are teaching it, fit in words or a short phrase to go with the bird's vocal efforts and make them clear. Meanwhile keep out of sight and don't approach the cage.

Still another excellent method of teaching your bird to talk, whistle or sing a tune, is by having a phonograph record made with a few words or short phrase on it. If your own voice isn't clear and distinct, some friend of yours could oblige by repeating in the recording machine for you. The clearest voice is that of a child, next a woman's and lastly a man's.

When the record is made it should be played at different times during the day, and it will surely drill the lesson into your bird. Let's hope that you can stand hearing the sound of your own voice frequently. It is important when making a record, to limit it to a few words or a phrase only. If you change over to different words or sentences, your time and money are wasted. Birds have a small brain capacity and cannot assimilate too much at one time.

If you wish to teach it more make another record. The second record can have the previous lesson partly incorporated into it; however, emphasis should be placed on the new vocabulary. A criticism of some records sold ready-made is that they contain far too many words or sayings, which makes them worthless for teaching purposes.

Therefore, to build up a good vocabulary in a bird through the use of records, have a new one made for each lesson. The previous sayings may be repeated in parts of each successive record, till the last one contains everything the bird has been taught to say or whistle.

Using the above method, it will be no time at all before the bird you are training is able to talk.

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