Trivia: lost japanese budgie speaks its address

[arnoldus]

This is a newsarticle in Dutch, but I imagine it can be sourced in other languages.
http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/959/Bizar/arti ... huis.dhtml

It says that a budgie was captured by a hotel guest and delivered to the police, where it immediately started speaking its address.

The owner, an 64-y old lady had lost another bird once and therefore decided to teach this one her address.

[marie83]

I've not read it but thats amazing if it is true. I've heard of people teaching phone numbers before but not addresses. In theory it's a brilliant idea but a bit of a pain if you end up moving though.

[animal_lover]

What an awesome idea!

Animal lover

[laducockatiel]

Cool, I heard about that. CVersailles on YouTube has taught her budgie her address in case he gets lost, just dunno what will happen if they move house

[arnoldus]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7414846.stm

I just ran across this article from 2008 with an African Grey this time, and again in Japan.
It seems to be a thing they do there.