If you want to teach your bird to talk then take a listen to the following recording to see just what is possible. This amazing parakeet talks lines from the American TV drama The Sopranos ! Here you can hear him saying lines such as "That's ridiculous", "Pretty boy", "Howyadoin", "Forget about it!" and other phrases all with a thick Tony Soprano accent. Incredible !
This example of human mimicry highlights the fact that language and accents are no barrier for parakeets. So no matter what language you speak, your bird can still learn to copy you. In fact if you speak more than one language yourself why not teach your bird a bit of bi-lingual flair too !
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More Parakeet Facts :
- Parakeets can turn their heads around a full 180 degrees. So if you ever thought about sneaking up on your bird for a quick surprise - think again !
- In Australia alone over 300,000 exhibition parakeets are born annually.
- Potentially speaking there are over 20 million different color combinations available to breeding exhibition parakeets.
- In Australia it is illegal to capture and keep native parakeets in all states with the exception of South Australia where the native species are unprotected.
- In the early morning feeding sessions, a flock of native Australian parakeets in the wild can number as many as thousands of individual birds.