What type of vocalizations do your parrots do?

[Eurycerus]

So I was reading some of Michael's posts and saw that apparently Truman screams quite a bit and that got me curious about what people's parrots are like in regards to their vocalizations, and what commonalities there are for each species.

Neither Senegal (thus far, though Diggy's previous caregiver indicated he only yells when left alone, kind of like Nika) yells at any particular time of day, and there are no bouts of yelling, like Truman does.

Senegal: Nika will scream only when she's lonely, or if she's incredibly excited she'll usually let out maybe one scream. Other than that, unless she's busy chewing or resting, she chatters in a fairly quiet voice constantly. Her noises can sound a little like human speech (garbled, but occasionally a "hello", "cookie", or "pretty bird"), peeps, beeps (in the morning before I got a black cover she used to wake me with a perfect alarm clock noise, I knew not to use an alarm with noises rather a phone on vibrate, but apparently a previous owner didn't think about that!), clicks, twitters, wheezes (a loud breathy noise, kind of like a hiss but she's not mad when she does it), whistles (which she tends to do more when in the bathroom area for some reason), and occasionally these terrifying child/baby screams. I personally love her voice and her little noises. They make me happy. Her scream is piercing but fairly short lived with one undulation.

Senegal: Diggy does not really sound like Nika which was a shock! Even his scream isn't the same; it has at least two undulations. His normal voice is quite a bit louder and more boisterous than Nika's. He makes creaking noises, peeps (one in particular that he loves sounds like an old Mac turning on, so my roommate says), zipper noises, wheezes (the only commonality between them), loud squawks, and also a sound like a kid screaming but different. He gets excited more easily than Nika, but he did just move in, so I figure that will pass. I'm already working on promoting his "inside voice" over his louder yells and squawks. He actually sounds less like a parrot which makes me wonder whether he's spent much time near other parrots. He's a cute little guy.

So what are your parrots like? When do they make noises and what kinds?


(Edit: added another noise)

[cml]

It depends ^^.

Stitch talks when he's happy, or just chilling. He can go on for hours sometimes, especially if we are in a different room he doesnt think we are listening. Leroy has started talking a little, but he isnt as good at it. Pionuses are even less known for being good talkers than white fronted amazons (and they are supposed to be bad talkers, but Stitch is an exception here I think).

When angry both parrots scream. This doesnt happen very often, and only in short bursts. It can be that they are out flying and one parrot suddenly swooshs to a different room, leaving the other behind. Sometimes they get angry in the parrot room as well and we see these shorts burst.

Both parrots sound exactly the same, they have learned to mimick each other perfectly so now we have amapionus sounds here, as they chose some sounds from Stitch and some from Leroy.

As a contact call Stitch does a wolf whistle, and Leroy sings opera (like Stitch when he was a baby). If Leroy doesnt get any response to his singing, he sometimes do a short burst of angry screaming, but quiet down very quickly when that doesnt generate any response.

Other sounds they make are general sounds like clicking, and some other hard to describe sounds that I can tell their mood from. Leroy says "oooow" when he is happy, and Stitch says "My dad" very quickly when he gets a treat or is generally happy.

This turned out quite difficult to describe, but thats about it I think ^^.

[Eurycerus]

By opera do you mean that he actually sings like an opera singer? I feel like you posted a video before but I was at work so I couldn't watch it. Your guys sound pretty fun. It makes sense that they'd copy each other, but I never guessed they'd do it so perfectly! What fun!

[cml]

By opera do you mean that he actually sings like an opera singer? I feel like you posted a video before but I was at work so I couldn't watch it. Your guys sound pretty fun. It makes sense that they'd copy each other, but I never guessed they'd do it so perfectly! What fun!

Yes, he sings part of The Magic Flute by Mozart. Stitch is better at it than Leroy though, but Leroy does it much more frequently. Stitch only sings opera if showering nowadays.

They do copy each other perfectly, their "general sounds" are just alike, and if I am in another room its hard if at all possible to tell who made what sound. This goes for their small sounds like "wawa", "ouh oh", "daddy", clicking sounds etc. Their angry scream is also EXACTLY the same, and its a mix of their previous individual screams.

Their talking is easy to tell apart, Stitch's talking is very easily understood, I think I posted a video a while back and he's only gotten better since. Leroy is harder to understand, but you still get it.

They are a fun couple of parrots, most of the time their vocalizing isnt a problem, but rather fun to listen to. But as all parrot owners know, when they do scream it aint fun .

[Andromeda]

Green cheek conure: In general he is a quiet bird. Sometimes in the morning when he is in his cage he will chatter along with my brown-headed parrot, but he doesn't really vocalize for extended periods of time in the morning the way my brown-headed parrot does.

He has one very loud, repetitive, ear-piercing call he does when he is unhappy---i.e. in his cage. If he's in his cage and sees someone walk by he will sometimes do this scream for a minute or two, but he doesn't do it for extended periods of time as it hasn't been reinforced---he only gets let out of his cage if he is being quiet.

This scream is also his alarm call so if something startles him sometimes he uses this call. He seems to have two alarm calls, one quiet one and then the loud scream. He also says "Shh, it's okay, shh" as an alarm call which he learned from me and my husband because we said those things to him when he was screaming.

He likes to follow me (fly after me) when I walk around the house and always announces himself when he lands with a very excited, "Hey, Bubba!" or "Hi, B!" He also says, "Hi, baby!" or "Hi, B!" when his cage is uncovered in the morning or when he is let out of his cage.

He has a whistle he does when he is happy. He does it when he it let out of his cage or when I or my husband enter the room if we have been gone for a few hours. I think it is a natural call but he is a re-home and came to us at 2 1/2 years so it is possible this call is an imitation of a human whistle.

He says a handful of things (he knows maybe six words and phrases) and he also imitates the microwave/oven timer beep. He does an imitation of a human cough that he learned from me as I had a cough for several weeks a few years ago when I had the flu.

Brown-headed parrot: He is pretty quiet when he is out of his cage and around people but in the morning when he is in his cage for a few hours and no one is around (but my GCC) he vocalizes constantly. He sings and whistles and chatters. "Hi, Jimmy." "I love you." "Are you my Jimmy?" "Birdie!" etc. He also mimics three of my GCC's calls and does a good enough job that visitors can't tell the difference (I can).

He knows quite a few words and phrases but generally only speaks when he is alone in his cage, with a few exceptions: he starts saying "Night, night" when it's getting close to his bed time. If he sees me putting shoes on or sees me walking out the door to leave he says, "I'll be back." If he hears running water he says, "Take a bath." If he wants attention from me (meaning he wants treats) he'll say, "Hey, birdie? Hey, birdie?" until I look at him, at which point he'll start doing the tricks that he knows (wave, circle, wings, etc.).

He has an alarm call that is a high-pitched, short scream. He has also learned my GCC's two alarm calls and half the time if he's startled by something he will mimic my GCC's quiet alarm call instead of doing his own, especially if my GCC is in the room.

He has a natural contact call, but he will also use, "Jimmy! Jimmy!" as a contact call as well (which is what I say to him in response to his contact call).

He does a loud imitation of the microwave/oven timer beep and he also does a very convincing creaky door whenever he sees me leave the room.

He has a very funny little voice, his words are pretty clear and easy to understand (as opposed to my GCC). You can tell that he's imitating my voice, too.

As a contact call ... and Leroy sings opera

That is so funny!

[mrbowlerhat]

Haha, okay, so... My first Senegal, Alaska, has this really loud and high pitched scream/call, which she will do several times a day.
Her previous owners had to give her up because of the fact that the husband had tinnitus from being in a band or something, and due to that couldn't stand her screaming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9pZLOIV6UA - That's the sound, though my camera didn't really catch the volume - it's SO much louder!
She usually does it in the morning (Often when I'm asleep and she wants me to wake up and make her breakfast or keep her company. It's like an alarm clock but soooo much louder and way more high pitched and impossible to turn off unless you wake up and make birdie breakfast. Which, when I think about it, isn't that bad seeing as I probably need to wake up earlier anyways ), but also when I leave the room or when she's especially happy. (Like, when playing, foraging or flying.)
Other than that she's got some weird beeping sounds going on, and some kind of a "woo!".

The other Sennie, Miley, isn't a screamer at all. She rarely makes a sound when she's out and with me, but sometimes she makes farting sounds and beeps and whistles.
She's pretty new to the household, she's been here less than two months, but the family who gave her to me said she used to do a few phone signals and a car alarm. It might be because she's not heard anything like that here, but I've never heard those.

[Eurycerus]

He does an imitation of a human cough that he learned from me as I had a cough for several weeks a few years ago when I had the flu.

Nika does the WORST imitation of a cough ever, but she is just in love with it. It sounds sort of like a cartoon cough. I got the flu probably two or three months ago and she still whips it out sometimes. She does the noise if I sneeze, cough, or blow my nose. Thanks you little green turkey...

The other Sennie, Miley, isn't a screamer at all. She rarely makes a sound when she's out and with me, but sometimes she makes farting sounds and beeps and whistles.
She's pretty new to the household, she's been here less than two months, but the family who gave her to me said she used to do a few phone signals and a car alarm. It might be because she's not heard anything like that here, but I've never heard those.

Aw you got another little Senegal! How cute! I find it crazy that they all sound so different and that some scream a lot and others don't. Each little personality is so unique.

[mrbowlerhat]

The other Sennie, Miley, isn't a screamer at all. She rarely makes a sound when she's out and with me, but sometimes she makes farting sounds and beeps and whistles.
She's pretty new to the household, she's been here less than two months, but the family who gave her to me said she used to do a few phone signals and a car alarm. It might be because she's not heard anything like that here, but I've never heard those.

Aw you got another little Senegal! How cute! I find it crazy that they all sound so different and that some scream a lot and others don't. Each little personality is so unique.

I did, yes! It wasn't my initial plan to get another Sennie (at least yet) at all, but I saw an ad about her and she was adorable, so I e-mailed them just out of curiosity. Turned out she seemed amazing, and they thougt my situation sounded great for her (since they wanted someone with lots of time and preferrably another Poi), so they were willing to give her to me for free - and I couldn't not agree.
And it all turned out really awesome. She and Alaska are almost even friends by now, they share a lot of out of cage-time every day without any problems at all!

And slightly less off topic (but not really):
Yeah, I really find it amazing that they're all so unique, too! Miley's (very, very unfrequent) scream/call doesn't even sound like Alaska's at all, not nearly as high - volume and pitch.
My two Senegals are definitely SOOO unlike eachother, in every way - they really don't look like eachother at all, except maybe the colors (and they aren't that exact either), they don't sound anywhere near the same, and they've got so different personalities! Even the texture of their feathers are slightly different from eachother. It's crazy!

[Grey_Moon]

Jacko is above all a communicator and I speak grey pretty well---though obviously I have the quirks of our flock dialect

What I mean is that I find she doesn't vocalize any of her sounds unless its in a particular context Like I'm not going to hear just any old noise out of her when she feels like being silly.

Alarm/intruder call/'something I don't like' : this one is a very distinct---its a beep/screech (literally sounds like EEEEEK!!!) noise thats very sharp (eardrums pop). She'll use this if another animal gets too close or if someone who's energy she isn't fond of/who makes us upset comes in. Also uses it if something's not right.

'Don't leave!'/Contact call/Travelling out of territory call:: Its a two-tone call that borrows on the first one reflecting it being something she's not amused with/sets her on edge a bit or she's reaching out to someone she hears who's not in the room. It goes booooooop---EEEEK! and usually I get it if I bring her out of the room/we're leaving/i'm leaving

Nervous-ish excitement call : this is a water spray bottle noise. She uses it when she's excited but a bit on edge about something. Like if I'm dancing around or being silly or she's in the mood for a bath and I'm about to spray her.

Excited call: This is her wound up call---it goes BOOOOOOOOOOP!!!!!!!

'Hey! Hey! You! C'mere!': IF she wants to come out she'll go MEEOOOOW?

GIMME GIMME GIMME LEMME OUT LEMME OUT!!: (this is one we're working on reforming) this is a very frantic cockatiel contact call (sounds a bit like WWEEEEE--OOOO! WWEEEE--OOOO!).

Good!/Yes!/This is pleasant/This is what I want!: This is a click noise.

No!: She'll make a little clipped noise that sounds a lot like her briskly saying no.

WHAT THE $%()%(!!!???: Depending on whether its anger/indignant or fear based this is an outraged squawk/honk or a growl.

We're all good!/tension release: this is a really hard sharp like banging noise. She'll use it when she's a bit tense/or if she's approaching me after I've offered a scratch and I'll reach out to her and she'll make the noise as soon as I touch her beak, she'll mouth my hands a bit and then she relaxes and puts her head on my fingers for a scratch.

*sigh*: When she's meditating with me, she'll actually make a sound like she's letting out a deep breath.

OY!! HEY!! LISTEN TO MEEEEE!!! ITS TIME TO DO SOMETHING/SLEEP!!: This is the attention-grabbing, she wants something/is annoyed. It can be a fire alarm screech or a hammering sound.

She also laughs, mumbles and makes eating/drinking sounds when she is in the appropriate situation. She will also use a sound to label an object/situation (a glass of juice and she'll do the drinking noise, she'll see a dog and bark etc.)

When she just feels like being silly she'll talk in funny voices, whistle and whoop it up

[Eurycerus]

Aww she sounds like a sweetie! I would love to hang out and listen to Jacko.

'Don't leave!'/Contact call/Travelling out of territory call:: Its a two-tone call that borrows on the first one reflecting it being something she's not amused with/sets her on edge a bit or she's reaching out to someone she hears who's not in the room. It goes booooooop---EEEEK! and usually I get it if I bring her out of the room/we're leaving/i'm leaving

I love Nika's sad "Don't leave me" call. It makes me feel very loved. :]