jeudi 16 juin 2016

How to Train parrot to Talk!

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Learn about your bird. Not all birds can or will talk, so the first thing you should do is find out more about your bird. There isn't much point trying to teach a bird to talk if it's just going to whistle back at you. Some of the bird species that can learn to speak include:[2]
Budgerigar
Parrot macaw

Parrot Amazon
Indian Ringneck
Parrot Quaker
parrot Eclectus
bird Hill Myna
Parrot African Grey
Parrot Cockatiel
Parrot Cockatoo

Build a relationship with your bird. Birds that are capable of speech are social animals. It is very important to develop a relationship by speaking to them often, so that it trusts you and grows accustomed to your voice. It is recommended to spend as much time as possible with the bird the first few months, speaking to it in gentle tones.^[3]

Make sure to play with your bird often, every day. These birds in the wild have many interactions each day, and they engage with lots of stimuli. Evolved for group life, these birds like to be well-socialized. Spending lots of time with you
r bird will help ensure you foster a good relationship.
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Plan your routine. Like training any animal, talking birds need short, frequent and regular training sessions. Make sure you build a plan such that you are able to give your bird the time and attention it needs in order to maximize its learning potential.
- Make a schedule.
- Limit training sessions to five minutes, two to five times a day.^[4]
- Plan to work with your bird many times a day

First step: your parrot should be healthy and in an appropriate environment. A poor, all-seed diet dulls the senses and will make your parrot less attentive. Not to mention reduces his lifespan and overall health. He should also be comfortable in his environment.

A bird is more likely to pick up words if he lives with a vocal family as opposed to a person living on their own who never talks. Get in the habit of talking to your bird, explaining what you are doing, and having conversations, even if they are one-sided at first. Even if he’s too young to talk, talk to him anyway. He is listening, learning, and remembering.
A parrot that is learning is attentive, looking and listening while you speak instead of being distracted by eating or other sounds. My parrots even like to get as close to my mouth as possible when they are listening, going as far as pressing their head or beak against my mouth as I talk.
Some birds will say things straight away after hearing a phrase for the first time but this is usually not what happens. They will listen first, and then one day you’ll hear them say it, especially if they’ve heard the word repeated many times. A lot of birds like to practice in private first before saying anything in front of people. I recall one person who thought her cockatiel couldn’t talk. But, after setting up a camera in front of the bird before going to work, she soon discovered that he actually said quite a lot!
Unless your parrot has been secretly practising, when he says his first word, it won’t be very clear. Instead it will probably just be a sound with syllables that sound vaguely like what he is trying to say. If you hear him doing this, say the word you think he’s trying to say and if it’s a labelling word (e.g. “grape”), reward him with the thing he’s trying to say.
Any attempts to talk should be encouraged with some type of reward. This may simply be you repeating the word with him and providing that encouragement and interaction. Or it could be a food reward, a head scratch, or general attention or playing with you. It depends on what your parrot will value the most at that time.