Just in case anyone really wanted 9 parrots.

[bloolark]

I figured I should share these here too.

This is the entire household, with most of the talking coming from Schrödinger, my scarlet macaw, and Kyklos, my DYH amazon.

This one's just Schrödinger.

No, they're not that loud all the time, but boy, when they get going, it makes your head spin.

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[bloolark]

He's something else, that's for sure. He's actually now the most frequent talker in the house, and is learning words day by day.

[spyderqueen]

I am SO glad my two take turns being noisy.

[bloolark]

If mine did that, it'd be NONSTOP noise. :)

I actually got them pretty hyped up for the first recording. Generally, they have a period of time in the late afternoon where everyone practices talking and babbling and shrieking, and they're quiet the rest of the time.

[beyondfake_0]

Wow that sounds a little creepy. XD

[bloolark]

Which part? The terrifying serial killer maniacal laughter, or the constant babbling that sounds like you're in an insane asylum? :)

[beyondfake_0]

Haha those parts. XD Ahh you gotta love your guys. :) My birds heard from the other room and started making contact calls.

[tally_kat]

Haha macaws have the funniest voices :)

My quaker can certainly be loud when he gets the desire to be (pretty much any time someone talks or moves around after a long period of quiet) but he's not THAT loud! :)

[bloolark]

I actually find the quaker the #2 as far as terrible obnoxious noises go, so YMMV there. The #1 most irritating is the black lory, whose 'joyful screaming into a bell' can drown out my sun conure.

[bloolark]

Yes. :) Because it's the most irritating sound in the known universe, and makes me stabby. However, the house is big enough that I can leave, so it's okay. :)

[crazeedreamgirl]

what's schrödinger's vocabulary like? he sounds like he's just mumbling, but definitely sounds like he talks up a storm!

[bloolark]

He says "Hello", "Oh my God", laughs hysterically, says "Noire" (that'd be the name of my doberman puppy), and "Ow!"

He's clearly working on a few more things, one of which I know ("Jaguar!" because we've decided that when he grabs his foot in his beak and yodels, it's because he's playing that a jaguar has his foot, so every time we've seen him do it, we yell "A JAGUAR A JAGUAR", and he's picking it up rapidly), but a lot of what he does is still babble. He's also only a year and a bit though, so he's still a silly baby.

[crazeedreamgirl]

one of mine says "ow!" but he expands it so the middle of it sounds like he's shrieking, its more like ooooow! with the middle o's very high pitched, lol. i love it so much when they talk, and i love hearing them pick up new phrases. the mumbling bothers me so much because they repeat themselves, and i just can't manage to make out what they say!

milo's a little younger than schrödinger, and he says only a few words, too. good to know he's not all that far off, haha.

[bloolark]

Keep in mind that it's also all the bird. Some parrots pick up tons of words, some only a few, some none at all. As an example, my blue and gold says 'hello', and laughs, and nothing else, and he's 20. :)