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Jan
Parrotlet
Join date : 2011-05-22
Location : Western Canada
My Birds : Sputnik - Budgerigar
Posts : 80
 |  Subject: So Sputnik is bilingual now...  Tue Jul 12, 2011 1:50 am | |
| This blew me away & is so cool! So I will occasionally show utube videos of birds singing or talking to Sputnik just to add some spice to his day. This one video in particular I've shown him maybe 10 times in the year I've had him and is of a little French budgie.  It starts the video by saying "bonjour bonjour Babi" (hello hello Babi). Anyway, the other day Sputnik flew over to me and said very clearly "bonjour bonjour Babi"!!! I never would have thought he'd pick words up off a computer!!! Is that wild or what? I am so blown away.  | |
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zazanomore
Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-18
Age : 31
Location : Thunder Bay, Ontario
My Birds : Einstein - Cockatiel [3]
Charlie Bird - Cockatiel [15]
Clyde - Budgie [4]
Bonnie - Budgie [4]
Madoc - Budgie [1]
Posts : 1474
| | Subject: Re: So Sputnik is bilingual now... Tue Jul 12, 2011 8:29 am | |
| That's so cute  | |
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Guest
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| | Subject: Re: So Sputnik is bilingual now... Tue Jul 12, 2011 11:08 am | |
| What a smart fid!!!  |
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VickiNumbers
Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-21
Age : 56
Location : Denver, CO, United States
My Birds : Allie ~ Yellow Sided Green Cheek Conure
Mickey ~ Turquoise Green Cheek Conure
Sam ~ Blue Front Amazon
Caesar ~ Bronze Wing Pionus (actually my HUSBAND's bird *grin*)
Mack ~ Lutino Cockatiel
Forté and Duncan ~ Budgerigars
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Posts : 1521
| | Subject: Re: So Sputnik is bilingual now... Tue Jul 12, 2011 2:14 pm | |
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moa
Sun Conure
Join date : 2011-05-18
Age : 30
My Birds : Rainbow and the unnamed gcc
Posts : 349
| | Subject: Re: So Sputnik is bilingual now... Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:10 pm | |
| sputnik continues to impress me! what a smart budgie | |
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Margaret
Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-18
Age : 51
Location : Chicago
My Birds : • Budgies: Mango, Blueberry, Plum, Sunny
• Cockatiels: Chico, Mickey
• Linnies: Venus and Mars
• Amazon, who was with us: Lucky
Posts : 1418
| | Subject: Re: So Sputnik is bilingual now... Tue Jul 12, 2011 5:51 pm | |
| I need to send my Monsters to your Sputnik for private lessons how to talk human  | |
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GlassOnion
Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-19
Age : 32
Location : Vancouver
My Birds : Cockatiel, Budgerigar
Posts : 1209
| | Subject: Re: So Sputnik is bilingual now... Tue Jul 12, 2011 6:24 pm | |
| I'm jealous! | |
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patdbunny
Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-18
Age : 53
Location : San Diego County, California
Posts : 2083
| | Subject: Re: So Sputnik is bilingual now... Tue Jul 12, 2011 6:36 pm | |
| Ah! Too cute!
We need to e-mail you snippets in different languages! I can do "how are you?" in Chinese! | |
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Jan
Parrotlet
Join date : 2011-05-22
Location : Western Canada
My Birds : Sputnik - Budgerigar
Posts : 80
| | Subject: Re: So Sputnik is bilingual now... Tue Jul 12, 2011 7:48 pm | |
| - patdbunny wrote:
- Ah! Too cute!
We need to e-mail you snippets in different languages! I can do "how are you?" in Chinese! What a good idea! I just wish I could get him on camera. | |
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ScooterNScotty
Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-24
Age : 63
Location : Southern California
My Birds : Scooter
* "Normal" male Green-cheeked Conure
* (hatched 3/2010)
Scotty
*male Cape Parrot
*(HD unk ~2008)
Blanco (Caballo Blanco)
*Whitefaced male cockatiel
*(HD unk, found 4/2012)
Posts : 2248
| | Subject: Re: So Sputnik is bilingual now... Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:54 pm | |
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RogerP
Scarlet Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-19
Age : 57
Location : Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
My Birds : ~Merlin - Maroon Bellied Conure
(Hatchdate May 15, 2010)
~Arthur - Red Bellied Parrot
(Hatchdate January 7, 2009, rescued October 7, 2011)
Posts : 813
| | Subject: Re: So Sputnik is bilingual now... Wed Jul 13, 2011 12:13 am | |
| Go Sputnik! Tres intelligente oiseau!  | |
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dusty
Scarlet Macaw
Join date : 2011-06-19
Age : 77
Location : near london, ontario canada...out in the country
My Birds : congo african grey (coco)
blue fronted amazons (willie and vasgo)
sun conure (simon)
greencheeked conure (jack)
senegal (walter)
senegal (crockett)
goffin cockatoo (sammy)
moluccan cockatoo (mango)
severe macaw (cody)
quaker (yoshi)
Posts : 838
| | Subject: Re: So Sputnik is bilingual now... Wed Jul 13, 2011 12:02 pm | |
| lol too cool...he is a true canadian...
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idlepirate
Lovebird
Join date : 2011-07-03
Age : 37
Location : UK
My Birds : Lorenzo - Blue Throat Conure
Posts : 107
| | Subject: Re: So Sputnik is bilingual now... Wed Jul 13, 2011 4:18 pm | |
| thats awesome, didnt know a budgie can pick it up so fast, if only i could show lorenzo something 10 times and hed know it  | |
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ScooterNScotty
Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-24
Age : 63
Location : Southern California
My Birds : Scooter
* "Normal" male Green-cheeked Conure
* (hatched 3/2010)
Scotty
*male Cape Parrot
*(HD unk ~2008)
Blanco (Caballo Blanco)
*Whitefaced male cockatiel
*(HD unk, found 4/2012)
Posts : 2248
| | Subject: Re: So Sputnik is bilingual now... Wed Jul 13, 2011 6:08 pm | |
| - idlepirate wrote:
- thats awesome, didnt know a budgie can pick it up so fast, if only i could show lorenzo something 10 times and hed know it
He sounds to me like the sort that the one time you show him vocabulary you don't want him to pick up, he will! | |
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Jan
Parrotlet
Join date : 2011-05-22
Location : Western Canada
My Birds : Sputnik - Budgerigar
Posts : 80
| | Subject: Re: So Sputnik is bilingual now... Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:38 pm | |
| Well that's the thing - I've been SO careful what I say when I'm less than impressed with something. I've let a few things slip and am waiting to see if he'll surprise me with the colourful language... especially when someone's over! LOL. Little stinker.
I think being the only bird in the house has really been the motivating factor for him to communicate with me. I think if there were other budgies he might not be as interested in human language.
Seeing how quickly he picks up phrases, I regret not continuing his training! I had taught him turn around and targeting early on, and was in the process of teaching him fetch. For some reason I can't remember now we stopped training and now it's been about 6 months. He still remembers what I taught him but I don't know if he's keen on learning other tricks. | |
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henpecked
Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-18
Age : 67
Location : NC/Fla
My Birds : Jake hen YN (his)
Stacy hen YN (hers)
Kia male Panama
Kong hen Panama
Nitro male YN
Micky male Red Lored
Binkie hen YN
Many other Amazons
Posts : 1372
| | Subject: Re: So Sputnik is bilingual now... Thu Jul 14, 2011 8:24 pm | |
| Way to go Jan, It seems that birds learn to speak quicker from other birds, you need to pick out some other neat vids and get him on video talking to the monitor.  | |
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