Read About Bird Talk

ImageNot all birds talk the way humans do, but if you get the right species of bird, you can teach it to talk. Here’s everything you need to know about bird talk.

Birds that will talk

Certain species of domesticated birds will engage in bird talk. These birds are usually of the parrot family and are very intelligent. They’re also fairly needy socially and will get depressed if you don’t hang out and talk with them. This should be considered before you buy these kinds of birds.

How do I teach a bird to talk?

Teaching a bird to bring human talk into its bird talk vocabulary isn’t too hard if you’re willing to spend some time practicing with your bird. It’s advisable to teach your bird to talk before it reaches six months old. Baby birds are better at absorbing language and will learn more quickly than their older counterparts. It’s harder to teach a bird bird talk when it’s older and is set in its ways.

When you’re teaching bird talk, it’s good to get the bird out of the cage and place it in front of your mouth. This will get the bird engaged and will also get it close to the sounds that you want it to learn. Next, repeatedly say Imagethe words that you want your bird to learn. You can choose whichever words or phrases you want them to learn, but it’s good to go with words, such as family members names, that the bird will hear on a daily basis. This will help the bird remember that particular word.

Next, get excited! Birds can hear the tone in your voice and are more likely to participate in their bird talk lessons if you sound excited about being the teacher. Birds listen to the tone of your voice and will also be responsive to motions or faces that you make when you teach the bird a new word. Another great way to encourage bird talk is to give you bird a treat when it says the word correctly. It may be bribery, but hey, it works!

What bird talk techniques should I avoid?

One bird talk technique you might want to avoid is making your bird listen to you for too long. Birds have short attention spans and will quit listening after a while. It won’t do any harm to hold your bird’s ear for more than 15 minutes, but at that point, the bird is probably done listening to your bird talk.

Also, if your bird starts picking up bird talk that includes human curse words or other offensive chatter, just ignore your bird. Birds talk because they get reactions from humans when they use the words they’re taught. If you ignore unwanted bird talk, hopefully it will go away.