Many different species make up the greater family of these great birds. Among them, the African grey and the Amazon parrot are probably ideals to learn imitation and speech.
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If you want to give yourself the best odds of success to get parrots talking, buy them at a very young age. Getting older parrots to talk is more challenging then training younger ones. Since older parrots have already been exposed to all kinds of sounds, it will take more effort.
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, for example 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 pet as feasible when teaching specific words to phrases to the pet. This system will permit the bird to see how each sound or word is created and help to make it count among the types of parrots that could talk.
There are some things that should not be done in training pet parrots to speak. One is overtraining. The birds should not be trained for more than 15 mins each per day. Coaching any types of parrots for longer periods will become boring for the birds, and eventually frustrating for the trainer. For shorter training periods, each session could be limited only to showing and telling the pets about their food or toys. Pet parrots talking are not also fostered by immediate whistle training. The birds should first be trained to talk, as parrots find it more hard to form words when they already have a whistling ability.
