Hi All..........Seeing many questions/comments about our girds talking abilities reminded me of something I've been wondering about...Do your birds have different voice inflections? Sweetie sure does~! She has a huge vocabulary and seems to add new words.phrases almost every week,but she says them differently..Examples: She'll say "I love you" in this sweet little singsong voice that just melts my heart,and then she'll say it later in this gravelly,what we call her"devil" voice(it cracks us up) She'll say"Good morning,pumpkin" and other times it's"Good morning PUMPKIIIIIIIIN" or"Wanna drink of water mommy" or wanna DRINK of water mommmmmeeeee" She calls me all of the time"Mommeeee,where's Mommy?" and then if I go to her and rub her head,she leans into my hand and whispers"mommy,mommy,mommy" in the cutest little voice....She does this with alot of her words/phrases,way too many to list here.Do your Quakers do this,too? Just curious

Oh yeah, Simon also has his "devil voice". He will say "good booooooy" and drag the boy out so it sounds really devilish. I love it when he does that. He also will rub his back against my face when he's on my shoulder and go "Ohhhhhh" in a way that discription doesn't do justice. My hubby is british, so he also does my "hello" and the brit version of "hello" which is rather funny too. What he does more often than anything else, and the only thing he will "say" when other people are around is to laugh. If I laugh, (or anyone else) he will laugh with me and it's so funny. When he is on my shoulder, if I try to have a convo with someone else, he will mutter in his little quaker voice, and if I get louder, so will he. Yesterday when we got him at the vet's office, they were laughing because he was trying to "talk over me". I didn't even notice till they started laughing about it cuz that's what he's always done. He also does the whisper thing, but not 'mommy' rather he will whisper "simon simon simon" and it's just too cute for words!

Oh, Clyde definitely does that. He can't or won't say a lot of words (I suspect it's the latter, the little stinker) but he gets the most mileage out of the ones he does know. His two favorite all-purpose words/phrases are "pretty bird" and "hello." He puts different inflections on them depending on what he's using them for. If he's sitting on his cage and I'm doing chores and not playing with him, he'll begin with a friendly sounding "hello!" I'll say it back and tell him I'm busy at the moment, I'll come get him in a minute, and it eventually changes to an impatient "HELLO!", gradually increasing in volume and annoyance until he's growling "HELL-OOOOOOO!!!!"

"Pretty bird" is a greeting, a question, an apology, a compliment (for me, not for him). When I'm cleaning his cage, he'll remark "pretty bird!" and start preening my hair from his perch. I'm pretty sure he means I'M a pretty bird. He'll also lean toward Bonnie and say "pretty bird!" and make kissing sounds.

When I put him in his cage because I want to eat my supper in peace (impossible if he's nearby; he insists on sharing which I wouldn't mind except that means *I* can't eat because I have to hold HIS food while HE eats ), he'll say "pretty bird???" like "wait a minute, you have FOOD, what are you DOING putting me in my cage???"

On those occasions when he's been especially nibbly and I've had all I can stand for the moment and put him back on his cage while I recover, he'll say "pretty bird?" in this very sweet voice and lean against my cheek. I think that's Clyde's way of saying "sorry, Mom, didn't mean to bite so hard, I'll be good now."

ohhh man the Devil voice! Yoshi doesn't actually seem to have one of those yet, but Delilah (CAG) holy crap she gets creepy. I get hello! Hi! then deep dark evil heeeelllllooooooo and all these weird what I call Predator noises. Its funny during th day but when she talks while I'm sleeping its so scary at like 3 am. haha

yes, cricket does too and it makes me wonder if i talk to him in different tones of voice.

for instance... when cricket wants me to come get him he'll say "come 'ere". if i ignore him or ask him to wait he says "Come HERE!" like he's yelling at me lol

if he thinks i'm mad at him he whispers "gimme kiss?" as a question instead of "gimme kiss" as a request.

Kiwi does it as well.. he'll say C'mere in a reallly sweet voice to convince us to come love him then if ignored he'll getg louder and sound more mean and demanding.. and will resort to almost growling "wanna come out!" lol


he says good parrot and good boy in a variety of diff ways as well cause he has several people in his life that he imitates lol

Really all parrots will Toy around with different tones. I think it is interesting to note the volume changes. Duke will whisper to the conures when he's visiting them. He'll be running around wiht them on their cage, and then he'll whisper good bird to them. Duke really doesn't consider himself a bird, and I'm sure he feels it's unfair that he lives in a cage. I'm sure if he wasn't such a food hog, that he would probably feed and change the water of all the birds since that's what the humans do lol.

Thanks for the replies,guys~! It seems alot of our little fids have a knack for voice inflections,just like we humans This morning,when I came home from work,Sweetie said"Good morning" and "hi baby"..I responded the same and went about doing a couple of things while she chattered away.After I few minutes,I heard her say"C'mere,hop up" and a few minutes later when I hadn't resonded to her,I heard her say"C'mere,c'mere,c'mere" in her gravelly devil voice....it was too funny.Sweetie was getting impatient

I understand the devil voice one
Nessie will say good girl and its just weird in that
deep, stretched out way they can say it. She'll say boppie
girl in a sweet and clear voice but she'll mumble f off because
she knows I don't like her saying it. So far thats all her vocabulary
as well but she does say it different ways and with different tones

Truman has those different voices too. Cracks me up! That devil voice is so creepy.

Yogi & Flirt crack us up when they play the up down game. Both say "up" in that cute little quaker voice, and both say "down" in what I called the "grudge" voice rofl.

c'mere can be a sweet request from Yogi, or an abrupt command if I ignore the sweet request

Oh and Yogi has started answering "what?" when I call him now too.

The devil voice is a really good decription though

Donut has the Vincent Price evil laugh down pat.
He has the sweet syrupy i luuuuuuuuuv you.
He does a nice deep quack when I ask "what does a duck say".
When we put the cover on his cage to put him to bed, we say "sleep time", Donut goes through this hysterical chirpy/squealy noise sequence that stops the minute the cage cover is on properly.
And then he has the everyday chattering voice.

Tricia

Peanut definatly has the devil voice, and the whispiers also. He has quite a large vocabulary.. and will regularly say many words. However, when someone new is around and I try to get him to talk, he will whisper.

Now on the other hand, if he's being a turd and trying to nip my hands, he will do the devil voice and say "Stop it." or "Quit"

This kills me!! I am so jealous! I would be in heaven if Trudy leaned into my hand and whispered "mommy, mommy, mommy." I wish you could get that on video. I would also love to hear Truday calling, Where's mommy?" Of course, I'd be in there in a flash...to adorable to resist!

Sweetie is a rescue bird and when she decided to "come around" and trust me,her true personality came out.I also believe,that in some way,she knows that I love her and took her from a horrible situation and gave her a loving,nurturing home.Before moving to Florida,I was very actively involved in dog rescue and would see the same thing with dogs.Many of them knew we were helping them,maybe not in a cognitive way,but they knew,and responded to it.I believe our fids are no different.Sweetie knows she is adored and I know she adores me,I can feel it.She has called me"mommy" for the past 3 months,but I gotta tell you....the 1st time she was on top of her cage and I went over to her after she called me and started scratching her head,and she leaned into my hand whispering"mommy,mommy,mommy" my heart melted and I cried.It truly moved me that this little girl,who had been so unwanted,so deprived,knew and appreciated her new home,and that was her "thank you" to me....