Many different species make up the greater family of these great birds. Among all the types of parrots, the Amazon parrot and the African grey are probably best suited to mimic human sound and speech.
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To more easily have pet parrots talking, it is ideal to purchase young and hand-raised birds between two and six months of age. Getting older parrots to talk is more challenging then training younger ones. The older birds already have been exposed to lots of different sounds and it would require much patience to train them to talk.
It must also be borne in mind that all types of parrots are social creatures. They work as a flock in the wild wherein the birds must learn and use the language of their group in order to survive.
Have your pet bird's cage or swing in a room where they are more likely to hear human voices or sounds, such as the music room or kitchen. From the conversations that the birds frequently hear, the parrots are likely to pick up some words and try to mimic those sounds as their own way of interacting with the environment.
It is also useful to get close to your bird as feasible when teaching specific words or phrases to phrases to the pet. This technique will allow the bird to see how each sound or word is formed and help to make it count among the kinds of parrots that could talk.
There are some things that should not be done in coaching pet parrots to talk. One is overtraining. The birds should not be trained for more than 15 minutes per per day. Training any types of parrots for longer periods will become boring for the birds, and finally frustrating for the tutor. For shorter coaching periods, each session might be limited only to showing and telling the pets about their food or toys. Pet parrots talking are not also fostered by immediate whistle coaching. The birds should be trained to chat, as parrots find it more hard to form words when they already have a whistling ability.
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