Mouthy parrot 'reveals sex secret'

[Submariner]

This is too funny :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/01/17/uk.parrot/index.html

[henslee]

1. Priceless. I love parrots too,

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. Hysterical, but I bet that poor bird is wishing he hadn't...after losing

his home and all. :(

[LisaL]

6. I am sorry, but the owner was an idiot.

I understand he felt bad for losing hid girlfriend and all, but it's not the parrots fault.

[ET Awful]

8. Agreed, those are VERY smart birds, he could have been taught to

say all kinds of other things. It just would have taken a litle time. Poor guy :(

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. Agreed ET, my post and the context I posted it in were misunderstood.

:shrug:

[ET Awful]

11. I wasn't implying otherwise.

I know you wouldn't wish harm on the poor birdie :P

[Ladyhawk]

13. I knew it had to be a grey before I clicked on the link.

If it wants to, a grey can learn a phrase after hearing it ONLY ONE TIME. I've seen this.

Here's a pic of some of my baby greys back when I raised them. I've been converting some of my videos into DVDs and capturing photos. Here's a pic of Kira, Dax and Odo:



I need to make some AVIs of them playing. It's a hoot.

[ET Awful]

19. They're such handsome birds too

They may not be as brightly colored as some parrots, but just look at that face :)

[Ladyhawk]

21. Yes, I like the scalloped grey feathers on the head. Very handsome.

The second pic is a hoot. I used to call my greys "bats" because they spent so much time in that position. As babies their eyes are very dark. The iris lightens to grey and then to a pale yellow. You know, it's been so long I can't remember the time-table on this, but it seems to me that the greys' eyes would be yellow by one year.

Senegals' eyes also change from dark to light grey to BRIGHT schoolbus yellow in some birds. My Darla always had light yellow eyes so she didn't develop that menacing look so many adult Senegals have. :) It made her cute which belied a very nasty jealous streak. I understand that some female Senegals never develop the really bright eyes.

Here is Darla:



Here's a Senegal with those really bright eyes:



This guy needs someone to preen his head.

[Ladyhawk]

23. Yep. You can often get birds to drop words from their repertoire.

I was upset when my Senegal learned to imitate the smoke alarm. I ignored her and she quit...thank goodness! I used to have a friend who had an assortment of birds. This friend was a cook, but apparently she burned food often enough to teach the birds to sound the alarm when smoke rose from the oven. :) They would "go off" even if the alarm didn't! It was hysterical. A rosy Bourke's, a Meyer's, a lovebird and a grey all going, "BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!" whenever smoke rose from the oven.

:rofl:

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. Goodnesss! you completely misunderstood my post. I was

commenting on the sadness of the situation. :shrug:

[jarab]

3. Yes! Funny! n/t

...O...

[BikeWriter]

4. Oh, shit...

[EstimatedProphet]

5. Stop! I know I've heard this one...

[Strong Atheist]

7. Lol! They both sound like trouble ... nt.

[Patiod]

12. My cousin taught my aunt's parrot to yell "help!!!"

My aunt was away for only a week, and my cousin got him to yell "HELP!!!!" at top volume whenever the doorbell rings. I answered the door for the UPS man one day, and between the barking labs and the voice yelling "HELP!!! HELP!!", he certainly looked a little thrown-off.

My cousin tried to teach the bird to curse, but it didn't take.

It can sing, however, sing a mean "Hava Nagila" and yells "Esther! Esther!", thanks to previous owners who were Jewish.

[Ladyhawk]

14. He should have toughed it out with that poor African grey.

They will often drop things from their repertoire if they aren't reinforced.

[purr]

16. Is that why I cant get my amazon to stop saying things? People

will crack up and then its like non stop after that.

[Ladyhawk]

17. Oh hell yeah. :) If you reinforce it, they'll say it forever.

I ignored Darla when she picked up the smoke alarm noise and luckily it disappeared from her repertoire...thank god!!! :) I had to give Darla up recently, but only for health reasons. :( I couldn't take care of so many animals. I used to have twelve permanent parrots, plus any babies I was hand-feeding. Eventually I had to quit breeding. Until recently I had fourteen snakes, too, but now I'm down to eleven snakes and one parrot.

[purr]

15. my amazon goes around saying "I like butt sex"

:rofl:

[Ladyhawk]

18. Oh my god. :)

Occasionally when I worked in the pet store, someone would sell us a parrot and only later we'd learn that the bird had a rather, um, interesting vocabulary. One Amazon would yell, "FUCKER! FUCKER! FUCKER!" at the top of its lungs. It was a really nice bird, but I hope the lady who bought him was able to tolerate it.

[purr]

20. Bingo did it for awhile - havent heard her do that lately.

One time I was pissed over a phone call.. I forget exactly what since its been a few years. I yelled out FUCKER. well... she started SCREAMING it at the top of her lungs all day. Shed do the same thing that womans bird did lololol. Then she'll laugh when she does it.

That bird.. shes hilarious

[Ladyhawk]

22. Kicking because this is funny. n/t