my wee bird

taity · Post by **taity** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:30 am

any other parrot keepers on the board ? this is angel talks dances and acts like a spoilt kid at times but loves the whistle

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:32 am

Not myself, but I have a friend in Devon who keeps parrots. That's an African Grey, is it not? Nice birds. Cheeky with it.

taity · Post by **taity** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:35 am

yeh it is and cheeky aint the half of it

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:37 am

I've always wanted a Grey and I had an oppurtunity to get one whose owner just died a few months ago, but the thing that turns me off from them is the same thing that turns many people toward them: their talkativeness/noisyness! I don't think I could live with a bird that screamed "apples!" as this one did! He had all kinds of weird sayings, including "Oh, I love you!" (The "Oh" was always in there.)

taity · Post by **taity** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:40 am

they talk alot yeh but you get used to it turn up the tv they get louder lol turn it off they stop weird

Bothrops · Post by **Bothrops** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:58 am

I don't have place to have a bird, but I'd love to have a parrot like yours, they're so smart and can learn a lot of things, very cool.

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:00 pm

Birds love noise. And they love to join in. My parents have a Quaker Parakeet
that likes to whoop it up at night. Yelling at her doesn't help, it just makes her
squawk all the louder. I hate that bird.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:10 pm

fearfaoin wrote:Birds love noise. And they love to join in. My parents have a Quaker Parakeet
that likes to whoop it up at night. Yelling at her doesn't help, it just makes her
squawk all the louder. I hate that bird.

I hate them too! A few of them live wild here. The cold doesn't even kill them. I hear there are whole colonies with hundreds and hundreds of birds living wild in Florida.

dwest · Post by **dwest** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:39 pm

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:42 pm

Cranberry wrote:A few of them live wild here.

Do you mean wild parakeets?

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:58 pm

We had an African Grey, a Cockatoo and a Yellow Nape when I was growing up. My dad loved parrots. They were such nice birds, and I loved them, but bird dander drives me up the wall, else I'd probably have one of my own. Maybe again in the future, who knows...

Our African Grey was named Harley. He was probably the most intellegent bird I'd ever seen. my dad worked with him to the point where he could hold simple three or four phrase conversations.
He picked up the strangest things, too.
He learned the entire following sequence:

"Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr <cordless phone ringing>"
"Hello? Just one second....WHIIIIIIITNEEEEEEYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Hello? Oh hi! Really? Okay."
"Buh-bye"

And he'd repeat it just like that, most of the time. Sometimes there were derivitives of the theme that were quite funny.

Another funny thing he learned was whenever my little daughter would saunter over to his perch or cage, he'd holler "ELENA, STOPIT!!"

Harley passed away about a year ago...He was a funny bird and a good friend to my dad.

dwest · Post by **dwest** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 1:04 pm

Aanvil · Post by **Aanvil** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 1:06 pm

fearfaoin wrote:
Cranberry wrote:A few of them live wild here.
Do you mean wild parakeets?

In So Cal.

Parrots.... big green skwaaaky parrots. Well I guess there are parakeets too but they are big. There are big ones with red on the top of their heads.

Not the cheek.

Practically an infestation of them in South Pasadena for years now. They live here year round and have spread all over the L.A. basin.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=V3MpCjGXh ... re=related

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=eoJFYRJJK ... re=related

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=hDHZLuqU3 ... re=related

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=NSSkFNb05 ... re=related

dwest · Post by **dwest** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 1:31 pm

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 1:48 pm

dwest wrote:I think there's only about a dozen feral species in the LA area

Wow. I did not know that... And Quakers are really cage protective;
I can't imagine what they'd do if you got near their nests. Ouch.