Thank you Brain for your very encouraging post. Your birds sound like lots of fun. I cracked up about the knock-knock joke, and I loved the bit where you said one bird learnt words off another. How funny.

Reg doesn't do any tricks yet, but maybe that's something to come later when he's increased his vocabulary. One can hope.
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BTW. Does anyone know why our bird licks the side of his cage? He can't get the color off as it's baked on, but he spends ages licking it sometimes.

No idea. But then I have no idea why Jesse taps his cage bars, either. They just do what they do, it's their hobby, I guess.

When Minnie bangs the bars, it's because she wants what the others are getting. Maybe if you keep watching, you'll see there is something that goes on and be able to see there is some reason he's doing it other than he enjoys it - maybe it's his way of telling you something, like you're eating a snack and he wants it or he wants attention?

Jake puffs his head up if he wants to be petted, fluffs up his whole body if he wants a bath. They have a body language, each of their own, trying to get what they want/need. It can take years to learn what they're *saying*.

I've often thought that's a big reason they do try to talk, because it's hard otherwise to get us to understand.


Wow, all this is really making me miss my pets! I've been gone a month.

Just thought I'd give an update on our cockatiels...
Our first baby, Georgie is almost 12 months old now, and still talks a lot! lol
We had one more baby born 2 months ago, we are hand-raising 'it' and we hope it's another male that will talk. This one we called Charlie, and is easy to handle, and is more advanced than Georgie for it's age (that is probably because Georgie turned out to be partially blind!)
We decided we didn't want to have any more babies, so my mum gave Reggie, the father, to a friend. But next thing we knew, the female, Cheryl, was sitting on more eggs, less than a month after the birth of Charlie (who is now inside with us)!
So, I thought...one more baby will be OK...but it turned out there are 3 babies in the nest...and the poor mother is having to feed 3 hungry ones by herself! lol
One of the babies is looking like it will be multi-colored like the father, so I might keep that one!

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~Jaime~

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Oh, look at those babies! How cute !!(well cute for birdies with no feathers yet... cough cough.)

I bet they are fun to watch! Thanks for posting...they are very interesting!

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Thank you for that update Jaime, and your babies are so cute. I'd be half tempted to take one off you if we lived a bit closer.

Your Georgie looks similar to our Reg who hasn't really learned any more words apart from Yum. He does chat away to us but we've not been able to decipher any more of it yet.