Bird Words

[spiritbird]

I know this has been asked before but it is always a cute thread to read, no matter how many times it is posted. What are some of the things your bird says?

Chipper says:

Wanna come out?

Take a shower

Take a bap (he cannot say bath)

Whach ya doin?

Christine (calling my cat)

Daisy a pretty girl

Chipper is such a good boy

Eat your greens

Eat your corn

Give me a pretty mommy kiss

Kiss Kiss Kiss (with the smack sound)

Chipper (repeated several times)

Dirty poopy (a birds fav. word)

Hello

ChipperDaisy (as if one word)

I love you

Take a nap

Drink up!

Pretty baby bird

There you go.......

Talkie repeated 3 or 4 times.

[Casper's 2nd best friend]

Casper says

Hello Casper

Hello Parrot

Georgie Boyo

Georgie porgy pie (misses out the "pudding and")
we say the next line: kissed the girls and made them cry
Whe-en the boys
we say come out to play, Georgie boyo flew away
Woof

Bubye.

[PlaxMacaws]

Salsa's words and phrases include...

Salsa (his name)
Hi
Hello (he yells it sometimes and he'll say it softly when I shake hands with him - meaning when he reaches his foot out to shake my hand)
Gooood birrrrrd!
Who's a GOOD bird?
Am I a good bird?
Be a good bird
Are you a good bird?
What a good bird!
Eagle birrrrrrrrrrd! (usually while spreading his wings)
I love you (often after making kissy noises)
OW! (repeated over and over)
Go Cubs, Go! (as a rally cry and also at times as a question with an upward inflection)
Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!
Up up!
Right now! (usually after saying "Up up!" and tapping his beak on a hard surface or his foot-fist on the perch)
Who's there? (after tapping his beak several times on a hard surface to make a knocking sound - sometimes it sounds like "who d'ere")
I wonder who it could be?
Who's that?
Wooo! (as well as various "woo woo's" and "who hoo's")
Come 'ere! (and if you don't do it he starts saying it in an emotional whiney voice as a child would)
Uh-oh! (appropriately after he drops something - or I drop something - or one of the other birds drops something)
Too loud! (after one of my other birds screams - and sometimes after he, himself screams)
You're loud! (also after one of my other birds screams)
Papa/where's papa?/where's papa at?/where's da papa?
The papa
What?
Heyyy! (he says it as if he's surprised, with inflection as if to mean "I didn't expect that... that's really cool!")
Look at that
Oh bird
What's your name?
Big bird
Hello bird
Now? (upward inflection - usually in anticipation of something he wants)
Take a bath? (upward inflection - sometimes followed by "Now?")
Apple?/An apple? (upward inflection - sometimes followed by an upwardly inflected "Now?")
How are you?
O..kay
Is it me?
Why?
No! No! No!
Hurry up!

And he waves at me with his foot while saying "hi" or "hello".

Other things Salsa mimics...

He laughs a couple of different ways (one of them is an hysterical belly laugh).
He mimics a perfect yappy little dog barking (sounds exactly like a little pipsqueak dog to me).
He burps quite well (especially in between gulps while he's drinking water or is about to drink some).
He hums the Andy Griffith theme song (and can whistle part of it).
He hums along with various other tv show songs (e.g., Gilligan's Island, M*A*S*H, Emergency!).
He wolf whistles and whistles little random tunes which he makes up.
He mimics a really great human cough (sounds exactly like a person coughing).
He mimics someone's violent sneeze.

He as well says and does a number of other things that I haven't yet written down and can't remember at the moment.

[spiritbird]

OH MY goodness I would love to hear him say some of his huge vocab. What a smart bird he is.

[froggij]

Orsino says "Night Night" and "Pretty bird/boy" (usually this one just with his song), whistles many tunes (wolf whistles, texting "beep" noises, and his "pretty boy" song), and speaks different bird languages that I don't understand. He also says my favorite - "Mom!"

Dori says "Dor-Dor!" and "Dor-Dor No!" in her own little language. She speaks budgie, cockatiel, finch, and has been known to try out Rose's noises with nearly no success.
Edit: Dori also makes kissy noises! I was smooching Orsino the other day and she started doing it back to me, loudly. Ha!

Rose is by far the most chatty, and has the biggest vocabulary. She can bark like a dog (not joking. Small dog style, a little high pitched). She also says:
Night-Night
Good Night
Love You
Okay
That's okay
RoseRoseRoseRoseRose (really quickly, 'cause she's a dork!)
Love you Rose
Excellent
What the hell?
Good bye
Bye-Bye (usually mixed in with her night-night's or vice versa)
Yeah
Uh-huh

She also screams and screeches, and constantly chatters incoherently and I wouldn't be surprised if she started saying "Rose, use your words." She has also once or twice been caught telling herself (or Dori) to shut up.

[kendrafitz]

Rosie doesn't say nearly as much as all of the other talented birds here!

She does say:

Hello (lots of different inflections)

Hi

Hey BooBoo

Apple

BeepBeep (while she presses her beak to my nose)

Boop

Peek A Boo

Ooooooh! (If she likes something)

OWWW!!! (Usually followed by an evil laugh)

She is working on a couple others but they are tough to understand:
Water
Shower
Ashley - comes out Aaaaaaah
No - it is more of a grumpy grunt. Ehhhh

She also laughs, lots of variations on her laugh

She nods her head for yes

I have been trying forever to get her to say Rosie and Mama, but no luck so far. Every time I start trying with a word, she says Aaaah, then Apple, then quickly gets frustrated and just starts yelling AHHHH!! I guess she will just get new words on her own time, or not. Either way is fine.

[Mare]

Wow! Lots of talented birds here! I'm impressed!:th_smile:

Amigo says two words and only two words, they are "Hi there!", (exclamation point included). He has many cockatoo calls but not in the English language :)

Sassy is more prolific in that department. She actually now imitates Amigo's "hi there" so well sometimes I can't tell them apart and some of his calls she has down pretty well. She can say, "hi pretty bird", "hey bird", "night-night Sassy", "love you", she has this hilarious, from the gut, laugh that you can't help but laugh along with her. I know there's more, not much more, just can't think of them at the moment.

Chip doesn't talk but he loves to whistle. He's got the wolf whistle down and part of Dixie. I've played him the YouTube video of the cockatiel whistling along to the song Totoro, he LOVES it!

[froggij]

Chip doesn't talk but he loves to whistle. He's got the wolf whistle down and part of Dixie. I've played him the YouTube video of the cockatiel whistling along to the song Totoro, he LOVES it!

I refuse to play Orsino any youtube clips more than once of other birds singing because I'm afraid he'll pick up Dixie or the Star Wars theme or something else and never stop annoying me with it at midnight while I'm trying to sleep. He does love his wolf whistle, it's how he and I first communicated and the first thing I taught him (some nights it's much to my dismay, but mostly it's just cute - and when I had a friend watch him, apparently he only whistled at her while she was getting dressed, the little imp). He does, however, love and adore that 3Oh!3 song "Starstrukk" because they wolf-whistle in it, so we'll "sing" that one together sometimes.

[PlaxMacaws]

I've just remembered another of Salsa's phrases (he in fact said it last evening). When Sals does his routine knock knock knock "who's there?" and I answer him with "it's Salsa", then in response he appears to be surprised as he replies with "Salsa?" in the form of a question, prompting me to respond with "yeah! it's Salsa!!"... sometimes he'll reply once more by saying "I didn't know that!". I didn't teach him this but I find it quite cute :D

[Lady]

Lady says Hi (quite loudly), what you doing?, you hear me?, open up, what, and okay. She laughs and sometimes sings in her own bird language. She does a lot of under her breath kind of mumbling but I can't make out what she is saying.

[froggij]

Rose kept screaming and then telling herself to "hush up, Rose". Then she told Dori to hush up even when Dori was being quiet... all without prompting from me.

[spiritbird]

MARE I really want to hear Sassy talk!!

[jtbirds]

I guess I can add to this what I can actually think of right now!

Lars My blue throated macaw doesn't talk to much he laughs a lot of different ways and he also goes ahhhhhhhh in my voice when i grab his tail or toes.. many of my other macaws as well picked up on this.

Taylor and toby the sibling greenwinged and blue and gold sayy alot! knock it off is common with them from the previous house. They also say thank you when food is given, hi, hello, hey.. toby loves to yell at his sister calling her "brat!" kiss sounds, whistles, various other little words and noises.

Rueben our big boy greenwing, he talks up a storm. Hi rueben, rueben good/ bad boy, he yells ow!! like a lady, he plays peekaboo, he says Hi B and various other names of birds in the room, He laughs everyones laughs, he says rueben no, thats a baaaad bird.

Romeo the rosebreasted cockatoo is probably one of the best talking cockatoos i've ever heard, He says hi romeo, hi rome, whatcha doing, how are you, I love you, I love you romeo, and he does this crazy mumbling and head swinging.

Pipo the lory well he has a lot of bad words in his vocab, but he also flys over to me looks at me in the face and goes, Hi stinker.. or if he poops on me he will say pipo bad. He says the usual hi and hellos.

Thats all for now, but I have more to add sometime:o

[kendrafitz]

Rosie shook her head in the shower today and hit her beak on the glass wall. She said, "OWWW!". Totally made me laugh.

[plax]

Last evening, I put on a t-shirt that has the old MOA ring emblem on its front (which I seldom wear). Salsa looked at, pinned his eyes, and said: "who's that?" He said it twice.

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[2birds]

All of your birds crack me up. It's funny what they'll pick up.
Clover says "what ya' doing? Huh?", "Whatya want? Want a beer?" He says his old name He makes laser sounds, he knocks on the wall with his beak and then says "Hello?" He says a few other things that I can't remember right now. He has been enjoying making this high pitched squeal lately that is driving me nuts. I think he likes it because it makes the dog whine.
Lilliput doesn't talk, she screams. One time she screamed "Hello!" and then said "hi baby". She does go on these talking jags but I can't understand what she is saying.