Videl
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Hello, just wondering if anyone had any experience with a talking bird? Does anyone know if a peach faced lovebird can or likely to talk/mimic speech???
Any Experience With A Talking Bird?
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hmm i have a budgie who talks. i think all parrots have the ability to mimic people. you just have to repeat words of phrases over and over again and be persistent. dont make the words too hard to say. for example my budgie cant pronouce the letter 'v'. we taught him to say 'i love you' but he says 'love' like 'lub' lol. also if you record a word or phrase and play that over and over again to the bird it will pick it up.
my friend used to have a cockatiel that could whistle the Adam's Family tune
my friend used to have a cockatiel that could whistle the Adam's Family tune
Why's everyone so obsessed with having a bird that talks?! 
A lovebird CAN talk but they have a very limited ability and would most likely just mimic sounds (telephone, whistling etc) and they're certainly not known as being great talkers. They're also VERY loud.
But yes, i have experience with talking birds.. I had a rescue african grey called Skipper in for a few months who used to say, every morning when i got him out of his cage, 'Hello Skipper you old bugger'
Was really cute! He also said 'hello' as soon as you picked up the phone Ooh, and my 16 week old cape parrot told me to 'step up' this morning 
A lovebird CAN talk but they have a very limited ability and would most likely just mimic sounds (telephone, whistling etc) and they're certainly not known as being great talkers. They're also VERY loud.
But yes, i have experience with talking birds.. I had a rescue african grey called Skipper in for a few months who used to say, every morning when i got him out of his cage, 'Hello Skipper you old bugger'
Was really cute! He also said 'hello' as soon as you picked up the phone Ooh, and my 16 week old cape parrot told me to 'step up' this morning
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Angel Lady
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I sometimes wish mine would shut up.This is all that bird does is run his trap...
RandomWiktor
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^ Cute as having a talking pet may be, it isn't a good reason to get a bird, and many people sadly do get it just for the novelty of a chatting pet. Unfornuately, it also leads to many of them being surrendered, when they pick up unfavorable words, other pets' noises, telephone rings, etc. and repeat them loudly and often, to the point of the owner's annoyance. Learning to mimic things like a loud door bell or a curse word then makes these birds very hard to place.
That said, your love bird may be able to talk, but they aren't really known for it, so its vocabulary will probably be quite limited. Maybe about on par with parakeets, which can talk, but take a very long time to train vocabulary into, and are capable of a only a fairly limited range of words. That, and love birds prefer other birds much over people, so if they have another lovebird, they'd probably be inclined to just chat with him/her instead.
As someone allready said, repetition is the key. It couldn't hurt to reward the animal when it does speak, as well. Be careful not to repeat things you DON'T want it saying; once it figures out that talking pleases you, it might start learning to repeat other things. If you listed to death metal or rap every day, it might just pick up some nasty language.
My parrots only say a few things, and things they learned just from me saying it, not from training. My amazon parrot says his name (Pretty Bird... I'd love to shoot his former owners for that gem), and mimics a variety of whistles. My other parrot, a conure, says "Kiss you," "Hop up," "Aspen" and "Be nice." He also makes a lot of incoherent babbling that sounds like attempts at human speech, but with no real words being said. And my eldest parakeet, Velveeta, has apparently learned Pretty'd Bird's name, and spouts off long, annoying streams of "Pretty pretty pretty preeeeeetty prrrrrrretty pretty bird bird prettttty." Our former parakeet (many years ago) had a pretty expansive vocabulary, though I don't remember much of it.
That said, your love bird may be able to talk, but they aren't really known for it, so its vocabulary will probably be quite limited. Maybe about on par with parakeets, which can talk, but take a very long time to train vocabulary into, and are capable of a only a fairly limited range of words. That, and love birds prefer other birds much over people, so if they have another lovebird, they'd probably be inclined to just chat with him/her instead.
As someone allready said, repetition is the key. It couldn't hurt to reward the animal when it does speak, as well. Be careful not to repeat things you DON'T want it saying; once it figures out that talking pleases you, it might start learning to repeat other things. If you listed to death metal or rap every day, it might just pick up some nasty language.
My parrots only say a few things, and things they learned just from me saying it, not from training. My amazon parrot says his name (Pretty Bird... I'd love to shoot his former owners for that gem), and mimics a variety of whistles. My other parrot, a conure, says "Kiss you," "Hop up," "Aspen" and "Be nice." He also makes a lot of incoherent babbling that sounds like attempts at human speech, but with no real words being said. And my eldest parakeet, Velveeta, has apparently learned Pretty'd Bird's name, and spouts off long, annoying streams of "Pretty pretty pretty preeeeeetty prrrrrrretty pretty bird bird prettttty." Our former parakeet (many years ago) had a pretty expansive vocabulary, though I don't remember much of it.
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My sulfur crested cockatoo barks like a dog when she hears dogs, other birds or the phone ring. When she gets angry she screams out her name. When my father is near her cage she screams "Lee", his name is Leo
When she is about to get food or let out of her cage she makes this contented humming noise that becomes gradually louder with an annoyed tone if she isn't tended to
When she is about to get food or let out of her cage she makes this contented humming noise that becomes gradually louder with an annoyed tone if she isn't tended to
Booboo puppy
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Even though our Amazon parrot was a single bird, she still went all out for "flock squawk" periodically--she was VERY loud. She also said many things, but the things she wanted to learn, not necessarily the things we tried to teach her. Parrots can live for 30 years or more in captivity, so the life span is also a consideration when contemplating the purchase of a bird.
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