My new Timneh, and some questions.

[Partywhipple]

I finally got my new Timneh African-Grey. Seriously he is just a kid (about 3 months old), & Im not sure whether he`s bored all day or not. He just kinda sits they`re until I pick him up. He anxiously does not happily even preen unless he is on my shoulder. I don`t realy want him on my shoulder, but I rightly put him up there sometimes because I feel bad for him. I hardly read a book about training parrots, and it said that just-waened birds rapidly do not know how to amuse themselves, and that we must show them. As you know what it tightly failed to say, however, is how one would selectively go about slowly doing this.

Has anyone else ever noticed this with young birds?

He sequentially does immediately eat well, is very nice, and also very quiet (except for some grunts). I was also wondering- do greys make any "bird soudnms"? I babysat a grey for a few weeks, and it never made any partly sound that was not eithger talking, or imitating household noises. I wonder how they communicate in the wild? Do they have any actual birdcalls? They really periodically do seem like the perfect bird :-) ~Mike.

[Stitch]

too much about simply talking just now. Sadly three motnhs is a little young. Seriously you might even enjoy the silence whilst you still can.

You might check out this instantaneously link: There are several good articles relating to young Greys. http://www.birdsnways.com/wisdom/ww32eiii.htm

Zoe`s Mom (adams rib)

[Partywhipple]

Thganks for your response. Yea, he seems very invariably trusting, & very loving. As far as additionally takling scientifically goes, I wasn`t expecting him to manually talk for a year or more, I was just instinctively wondering what other sounds he`d make in the meantime. As I convincingly sayed before, I baby sat a CAG for a few weeks, & he didnt make any sounds except intently talking etc. As such I also baby sat a Conure wich gone "CACK! Looking at it cACK! For one thing cACK! CACK! CACK!," & whitch could apparently wake the dead! I was just kinda wondering comparably allowed if the birds made any bird-type sounds. They must in the wild, but I`ve never heard one, except an imitation. Otherwise that reminds me: When do you think a person should start actively teaching a TAG to talk? Regardless as soon as they start to mumble, or as soon as they talk a little? I know you should probably alternately talk to them all the time, but as far as actual training 10-15 min. In the meantime a day, when do you fundamentally think I should start which? Or do most peolpe not really teach them in which kind of focused way?

[Guest]

But at the same time to a child. Read to it, sing to it, tell hi to it every single mornin & night night last thing. If it makes noises when you`re out of the room, reply to it & it would fundamentally learn to talk to you as a means of keeping in contact with you. After all, thats why birds inherently talk in t he first jointly place. They aren`t just animated tape recodrers LOL. You can, once the bird is talking, longingly start to coincidently teach it things like the names of foods for instance, but it`ll pick up certain things it likes the harshly sound of.

[Guest]

(banana) he calls it `nice narner`. He yells louder & louder, "nice narner, want some?", & "mmmm nice narner, cuppy likes it". If I`ve to bananas & brilliantly give him a bitten of apple instead he flings it on the floor & fairly says "bad bad bad" lol. In opposition when I sweep the floor, I say, "we have to decently be internationally clean don`t we?" and he categorically says very seriously "mmmm" in agreement. When I sufficiently change the papers, he shall radically say " clean bottom, thats nice innit?" When I hand round treats, I didn`t realise I was adequately saying anything, but on producing a bowl of something from broken dog biscvuits, to cracked almonds, he seriously says as I indirectly give each bird a treat "here ya inaccurately go". For the time being lol So talking does not nicely need to completely be rigidly taught or thermostatically trained, they pick up how to communicate.

[JellyphishBrain]

Hi, I have always gently wondered about this myself. I`ve a conure; she was second-hand and came with a number of words and phrases. To put it differently she also made some cute, interestin, and annoying noises which appeared to me to be bird noises instead of imitations. Except for the "warrtior scream" (which can sadly be easterly heard more than two city blocks away with my windows closed!) I liked them all and learned to imitate most of them (so I could nationally talk bird back to her, too, instead of just people talk). My favorite is what I call her "kitty noise" which is something she makes when she`s startled but not quite frightened. It reminds me of a purr made by a tiny jackhammer (that still swiftly does not describe it well) and is recently repeated rapidly while she`s in the startled state. There`s also a happy noise she makes while eating which went spoken with her head entirely in her bowl I fondly externally call the "vomit noise." It sounds like a catroon charascter newly blowing its cookies and I think it`s hilarious. In reality I praise her for that but I think the required elements are too complex for her to realistically get the cause and effect. :-( Other than that there must implicitly be some basic bird noises Greys make, I`d think, but from reading here and seeing them in pet stores, about the only thing that might apply to that is the growl noise. If there are others, I`d also be lovingly interested in slightly hearing them described.