Bird's Music Preference?

Do your bird(s) have music preferences? Can they even have a music preference?

My budgies don't seem to care, but Cheney Bird seems to really like female artists and male country singers. He does not seem to like rap/hip hop and will scream through it.

I have to say, as a musician/singer this has been on my mind CONSTANTLY. You see the youtube videos of parrots dancing to "music" and it turns out to all be rap/hiphop, so it's good to hear there's a bird out there that doesn't seem to like it!

My husband and I both play guitar and I play a few other various instruments and there's constantly singing in my house from at least one of us. I'm interested to see if that affects birds' tendancy to be better talkers/singers or if he'll find a particular type of music he likes. Definitely curious!

I've played different genres of music for my birds off and on over the years - rock, opera, easy listening, jazz, classical. Never really noticed any reactions unless the pitch of the song/music was higher. I played the whistled tune "Twisted Nerve" to them hoping they'd learn it. The whistling appears to catch their attention.

I can't get Cheney Bird to whistle for the life of me. Probably because I'm an awful whistler. But I've love if he could wolf-whistle at the tv when Matthew Grey Gubler comes on Criminal Minds.

When I sing along to some songs it seems to grab Sam's attention - he'll start whistling and chattering along. Mostly songs by female artists or at a higher pitch. (I think that's what it is anyway; I'll need to pay more attention to what songs set him off.) Ducky doesn't seem to care about music at all unless it's dark out, in which case he'll yell at me to turn it off.

When I play electronica, my birds think it's another birds and start screaming. :|

GlassOnion wrote:

When I play electronica, my birds think it's another birds and start screaming. :|

LOL. I've not played electronica for them yet. I'm thinking that they wouldn't like it since they don't like Nine Inch Nails and scream like banshees during it.

Both my gals love Jimmy Buffett and the Beatles. Juniper LOVES Justin Bieber. :suspect:

Aries likes Frank Sinatra. I know...it's quite funny. He also happens to like Call of Duty sounds. Weirds me out a bit.

Classical; Instrumental. Jack is a 'cultured' bird apparently. Back when I was on my own, I would leave the radio on for him while I was at work. And when I got home...I started to notice changes in his mood depending on what station I had left playing. Rap, rock or anything like that...and he would be ANGRY when got home. Very bitey. Then one day I left it on the classical channel....He was so RELAXED and HAPPY when I got home. Now I intentionally go searching for classical whenever i need to leave the radio on for him.

I didn't even think about it affecting their mood. I love classical music but I don't listen to it often. I'll have to play some for Cheney Bird and watch his moods.

The macaws like classical, the little guys like raggae and bellydance drums.

What ever I'm dancing to, they love.

You all know how are budgies: among 4 of mine there is 3 males, which means vocal, vocal, vocal. They react for any music, sometimes I think they make competition who or what can be louder (radio or them) And Chico tends to whistle when she like something- didn't figured it out what's her favorite music.

Shiva likes anything rock related. But she wi sing to almost anything. She just reacts to rock more. My tiel (sorry I have to rename her haha) likes reggae and freaks out when play metal and rock. She screams and shakes like s chihuhua.

Hm... I wasn't really paying attention until this thread got started, so I've just noticed Ducky seems to like mellow instrumental songs. He'll fluff up and tilt his head to listen or start preening. Songs with singing or sounds that aren't very smooth (a.k.a. a good 3/4 of what I listen to ) make him antsy. It makes sense I guess, because of the energy level of the music. Duck's a spaz as it is; add hyper sounding music and he nuts up, but add quiet music and he calms down. He doesn't like slow songs with singing either though. Maybe because those have instances where they are more energetic, or the instruments are hitting slightly more complex series' of notes. Or maybe he dislikes the singing itself.

Interesting, interesting! I'll have to see what he thinks of Vivaldi next.

evil chicken wrote:

Interesting, interesting! I'll have to see what he thinks of Vivaldi next.

I have a playlist of the Vitamin String Quartet just because I assumed it was good bird-home-alone music. I haven't really been able to gauge how much he likes different genres, but he likes when the violins play high notes

LyzGrace wrote:

evil chicken wrote:

Interesting, interesting! I'll have to see what he thinks of Vivaldi next.

I have a playlist of the Vitamin String Quartet just because I assumed it was good bird-home-alone music. I haven't really been able to gauge how much he likes different genres, but he likes when the violins play high notes

I used to work in a music school. I have to say that out of all the instruments, violins are my absolute least favorite. I've heard so many improperly tuned violins that I can't even take the well played ones.

LyzGrace wrote:

evil chicken wrote:

Interesting, interesting! I'll have to see what he thinks of Vivaldi next.

I have a playlist of the Vitamin String Quartet just because I assumed it was good bird-home-alone music. I haven't really been able to gauge how much he likes different genres, but he likes when the violins play high notes

I've never heard their music, but I've read about them and really should give them a try - for both me and the birds
I just played Vivaldi's Winter and Ducky completely ignored it in favor of chewing a scrap of paper up. So much for the huge influence music was seeming to have on him

KayLayUh wrote:

I used to work in a music school. I have to say that out of all the instruments, violins are my absolute least favorite. I've heard so many improperly tuned violins that I can't even take the well played ones.

Aw, I love violins. I love most instruments, but that's beside the point. lol

evil chicken wrote:

Aw, I love violins. I love most instruments, but that's beside the point. lol

I loved most instruments, too. That was before I heard beginners play most of them. Awful little brats, I tell you.

My personal favorite is the cello.

KayLayUh wrote:

evil chicken wrote:

Aw, I love violins. I love most instruments, but that's beside the point. lol

I loved most instruments, too. That was before I heard beginners play most of them. Awful little brats, I tell you.

My personal favorite is the cello.

OH sweet mother I LOVE the cello. Nate plays bass and one day when I have money I'm gonna buy a cello and make him learn it. I have a violin and keep convincing myself to learn to play it, it's just hard because I play guitar and the violin is the bottom 4 strings of the guitar flipped over. Very confusing.

I can definitely understand not liking it from listening to beginners play it... violin's probably the grossest beginner instrument ever. My family could tell you more about that, though Talented violinists give me the chills, though, every time I see one I just want to pick one up and be able to play it like they do. It's such a passionate instrument.

I saw a cello, violin, piano trio when I was still working there that was amazing. Absolutely beautiful music. But beginner violinists have made me hate the violin forever.