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From: jla@inuxd.UUCP (Joyce Andrews)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: African Grey parrots
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Date: 27 Feb 88 12:55:41 GMT
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> Re: Paul Meyer's question about teaching his new African Grey
>     to talk.
> 
> You might also try whistling simple tunes.  Max loves to whistle and
> often makes up his own tunes.  I'm sure he could learn any tune
> I wanted to try if only I could whistle better!

As I mentioned in e-mail to Paul, try singing, too.  Madeira, my
blue-front Amazon, loves to sing.  The only word she knew was 
"Hello" when I started singing the first two lines of "I'm
Forever Blowing Bubbles" in a psuedo-operatic voice, vibrato and
all.  She picked those up almost immediately, and now tries to
sing lots of things (you should hear "hello pretty bird" sung
like the fat lady in an Italian opera).  She holds her notes out
and sounds better than my husband does in the shower!

Now, this is my third posting here this year, and the other two
were about wild birds (or escapees) so don't flame me for a pet
bird posting!  Parrots are a lot of fun (and mess, but that's
another story).


 
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	Joyce Andrews King                      
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	AT&T, Indianapolis