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I thought for a while this guy was a ventriloguist but nah.

That is one foul mouthed Cockatoo.

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I couldn't understand a word the bird was saying! They only repeat what they hear anyway don't they

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Well neither could I but apparently it was pretty blue. Still quite funny though.

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That was hilarious Mark, as much for the bird's actions as for it's language.

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My Nan had a bird that could talk (not sure what it was but it was a big black thing) and when the rent man called at the house, this bird would tell the rent collector in no uncertain terms where he could go my Nan used to look horrified but, as she said, with five sons in the armed forces, the bird was unlikely to quote poetry

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It was probably a mynah bird, my mum had one.

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That's it - a mynah bird (odd how you can't think of it until someone says it!). Chattery little thing and it used to cheat when my uncles were playing cards by standing next to another player and calling our random cards that the bird reckoned they were holding

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I adore parrots, always have done. I have a friend who breeds the beautiful Macaws, and another who does parrot rescue. Lovely birds.

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The garden centre, near where we lived in Bournville, used to have a parrot and I always used to take the children there to see the parrot and they always ended up laughing their heads off at that bird. You'd walk up to the cage and he'd cock his head on one side and say (in a parroty voice - quite high pitched as well) 'heeelllloooo, how are you'. The parrot always used to talk about someone called Jane wanting to know where the keys are then it would look at you and say 'have you got the keys' - funny to listen to. Goodness knows what conversations it had listened to

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The lovely girl who cuts my hair has two African Greys, and one of them imitates the telephone perfectly, and he also keeps calling their poor dog!
I wish I had got one when I was a bit younger, but a bit late now as they are so long lived. I worry enough about what would happen to my dogs if I popped my clogs, let alone a parrot as well!