Can My Older Quaker Parrot Learn to Talk?
by Heike Ewing Ott
Can an older Quaker Parrot learn to talk? And if an older bird can learn to talk, can it develop a large vocabulary? These are questions that comes up a lot as more people seem to be adopting a previously-owned pet Quakers or birds that were used for breeding. The following article answers these questions.
Is there a chance that he will get a full vocabulary, since he is an older bird and just now beginning?
Remember that hand-fed babies are a relatively new innovation. It wasn’t that many years ago that most of the parrots in the pet trade were wild-caught, imported birds, and many of them were adults. Yet, Quakers *developed* their reputation for being good talkers under these circumstances.
Adult birds do not stop learning, and are quite capable of learning new things at even advanced ages, just like people. Whether your bird learns to “talk” will depend on how much it wants to communicate with you and imitate you, so if you work with your bird a lot and develop a strong bond of love and caring, it is very probable that your Quaker will begin trying to communicate with you in YOUR language.
I keep on trying to make my parrot talk i show it alot of LOVE and when i say alot i mean alot but i don’t know why it dosen’t show that much love back and my bird is very terrotory affended i don’t know why, i need advice
what i did with my quaker while my family was on vacation is we took her to a vet who boards parrots. my parrot had problems too and when we got her back it was amazing how much she changed. She even let me pet her again.
i got my quaker after a family decided that they couldn’t keep up with her. she hated people and was VERY territorial of her cage. i would sit with her for hours at a time, trying to get her to settle down. after about two months of this, she started feeling comfortable with me, but i still would have to resort to gloves when i wanted to touch her. but as time went on, we became unseperable. she would not leave my side, she would always be on my shoulder. i think you just need to give them time to get used to you and build up their trust, they will come around to trusting you eventually.