It’s Getting Colder Tonight, Lows in the 30’s…

@dontbekoi I started bringing them inside and the parakeets yelling Thank you! Thank you!”. They’ve been out in the sun room for nearly 3 weeks and are ready to come back inside. I told them when I was cleaning their cages that they had to be nice tonight if they wanted to come inside. Heard one of them say “Gotta be nice”. (No squabbling fusses before they go to sleep)

@cherokeepatti

That's adorable! Did you hand raise them ?

@dontbekoi Three of them that the mama and daddy had. The mama is still alive but the daddy died and I have one other older male bird. Surprising what all they can say and it’s generally relevant to whatever they want or what they see or hear.

@cherokeepatti

I honestly find that amazing. I am a massive animal lover but have always been intimidated by birds - they seem so fragile. I had no idea they were so clever and personable 😊

@dontbekoi Have had parakeets off and on all my life. But the birds I got about 19 years ago talked more than any other parakeets. I don’t know why. Maybe because I put them in the living room and then where they could see and listen to me cook and talk on the phone and listen to the tv etc. I had parakeets (especially females) ask me what I was cooking, what i was drinking, what I was fixing, what I was doing. I would show or tell them, show them the food on my plate and tell them each thing. They got better & better the more I interacted with them. One of the male parakeets overheard someone talking on the phone and the next day repeated 4 complete sentences from the conversation. The birds I have now will ask What do we have? When they want some greens. They will tell me thank you or Thanksgiving when they want something or are happy about something like going into the sun room when the weather is nice and the windows are up.

@cherokeepatti I am blown away. What great company they are! If they can imitate human language, I wonder if they can imitate other birds or sounds (like the telephone)? Amazing.

Do you have to clip their wings?

@dontbekoi I don’t clip their wings. Yes they can make other noises. I had one that could make a ripping paper sound, and one that could sing like a robin (we lived in an apartment where hundreds of robins would light down on the lawns in the morning) and one that could sing like a canary (back when Walmart sold canaries next to the parakeets at their stores). One of my male parakeets would whistle like a siren sound when he heard COPS tv show music.