Does anybody have a cockteil that talks

[Tycos_mom]

My 8 month old Cockateil talks his head off. I swear that bird thinks he's a African Grey. Every morning it goes through its little vocabulary its so cute and so clear he says prettybird how are you laugh cough cough laugh whatch a doing and then pretty bird pretty bird over and over. I think he is learning from Fergie my Amazon more than Tyco because Fergies the one that says those things all the time not Tyco. its so cute comming from a little bird I hope he learns to say more things as he gets older.

 

[Lupa]

Nope, my two little ones don't talk at all. But they are still very young, 5 months. Maybe one day

[Lauri]

I have two that talk and whistle. One more then the other. Boo says whatcha doin?, Hi Boo, Kiss and then gives you kisses and a few other things I can't quite catch. The two of them also were singing the same tune over and over and I couldn't figure out what it was. One day I had Boo out and he was singing to me and our phone started to ring....needless to say I figured out what the tune was! I just never connected it before.:laugh: I never intended to get a cockatiel, but saw this one and fell in love. Someone else bought his brother, but a few weeks later told me it was an impulse buy and they just weren't bonding!! So she gave him to me. I named him Illusion. Boo is pure white and Illusion is all white with 3 grey feathers.

 

Lauri

[Tycos_mom]

I didn't know that cockateils could talk so well and so clear mine chatters away every morning whistling the song baby face you've got the cutest little baby face and saying his little vocabulary. its so cute he's like my little alarm clock. His favorites are pretty bird and whacha doin he says things just as clear as my Grey He was hatched on Oct 23, 2007 so he's just a little baby still I can't wait to see how much he learns by the time he's two or three yrs. old. Pat

<br><br>Post edited by: Tycos_mom, at: 2008/07/03 15:14

[Tari]

No I do not even have any tiels. But my boss/friend has one and it is a female and says a couple things.

[Mel]

Mine says Hello Pretty Bird but that's it. I tried teaching him to whistle tunes. Big mistake because I can't whistle tunes. I have him all messed up!

[thedelboy]

I have 4 cockatiels a Pennant and 2 rosealas, my cockatiel "Charley" who was born and hand reared by myself talks and whistles "half a ound of tuppeny rice" one of my "Rosaelas says a couple of words but not perfectly clear yet, my other Rosaela and Pennant (bought today from a pet shop have been together in the same cage since they were babies and wont separatemake hell of a racket the pennant copies police cars and telephones

[MommaFawkes]

i have 1 thats 18 and he talks and sings.

[sandra902]

my little tiel is pretty new to the monkey house and mostly shrieks. he will wolf whistle occasionally followed by some tongue clicking sounds.

 

i have heard of cockatiels that talk so i am hoping little peetey will pick something up along the way.

 

and we are working on extinction with the shrieking...except merlin has now picked it up. he got a couple 'verbotens' for it but now i ignore him after i flinch. gotta work on that flinching.

[Lyric]

I had several cockatiels for years and of them all only one male could talk and all he ever said was "sweety". The others could whistle very good and that was that. They are sweet little birds though and do make good pets.

[tarnold]

I have had many tiels over the years. Only my males ever talked but the females carried a tune better it seemed. I only have Elvis left. I rescued him from a nasty neighbor who abused him so I have no faith he ever will but he still a great bird!

[Tycos_mom]

Well I love all the storys about you little cocateils the ones that do and the ones that don't I think they are just the sweetest little birds there is so playful and when their tame their really tame little velcro birds for sure.