One of THE most common questions I get about my birds is “Do they talk?” and the answer is, sort of. Gideon here has learned to mimic a pretty wide array of words, sounds, and phrases that he has heard. Of the 5 eclectus parrots I have had, he is by far the most talkative. One of them never talked at all and the rest could say a few words. Of the 9 birds I currently have, only Gideon and Griffin “talk” (meaning they mimic) but Griffin only says a couple of things. It is a lot less common for par

Why parrots can talk like humans

"Talking birds are birds that can mimic the speech of humans. There is debate within the scientific community over whether some talking parrots also have some cognitive understanding of the language. Birds have varying degrees of talking ability: some, like the corvids, are able to mimic only a few words and phrases, while some budgerigars have been observed to have a vocabulary of almost 2,000 words. The hill myna, a common pet, is well known for its talking ability and its relative, the Europe