My wife has 9 cockatiels and a white capped pionus. They are always out of their cages so I have to put up with them running around me. One of them, "the psycho looney creature", just won't ever leave me alone. Flies on my head, picks at my neck and tries to get it's head into my mouth. Crazy bird.
Anyone else have bird too
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I'm laughing at all these funny bird stories 
: I personally have a 5 yr old quaker named Riko. He is the love of my life. I also bring him in the shower with me, and he's like a duck to water. He shakes around in the water, almost falls over! He's brought so much to my life that I wouldn't have enough room to tell all the stories. Through living with him, I've found that many bird species are very intelligent and social creatures worthy of more than one glance. ~Angela
: I personally have a 5 yr old quaker named Riko. He is the love of my life. I also bring him in the shower with me, and he's like a duck to water. He shakes around in the water, almost falls over! He's brought so much to my life that I wouldn't have enough room to tell all the stories. Through living with him, I've found that many bird species are very intelligent and social creatures worthy of more than one glance. ~Angela
I gotta share pictures of my boys. This is Avery the TAG. He talks very well as well as curses (he only learned one from me). He also has numerous animal sounds and other sounds. He coughs, sneezes and says "Bless You", burps and says "Excuse Me", blows his nose (well makes the noise), copies our cats meows perfectly, monkey sounds, baby chicks peeping, and a rooster crow. He is wonderful
And this one is Ducky a Pacific Parrotlet blue mutation. He sings Twinkle Twinkle (my favorite) a lot of other phrases and my favorite is his sarcastic "Oh Tweet Tweet Tweet"...I mean he says the word "tweet" he doesn't make a bird sound.
I love my boys almost as much as my two kids!
And this one is Ducky a Pacific Parrotlet blue mutation. He sings Twinkle Twinkle (my favorite) a lot of other phrases and my favorite is his sarcastic "Oh Tweet Tweet Tweet"...I mean he says the word "tweet" he doesn't make a bird sound.
I love my boys almost as much as my two kids!
I went to a private boarding academy and the dean had a yellow naped parrot. He had been taught to mimic laughing, say "hello", "I'm a pretty bird" "My name is sinbad" and in the other low gutteral voice he had would say "I'm an ugly bird"
He was noisy and some of the guys talked back to him. He learned to say "hello, my name is shut up"
He would also say sometimes <normal voice> I'm a pretty, <low voice> ugly, <normal voice> bird.
I was sitting in the lobby next to the office where he was one day and grounds was cutting the grass. Each time the mower moved by the window the bird would say hello when it was approaching and goodbye when it was past the window and moveing away.
He was noisy and some of the guys talked back to him. He learned to say "hello, my name is shut up"
He would also say sometimes <normal voice> I'm a pretty, <low voice> ugly, <normal voice> bird.
I was sitting in the lobby next to the office where he was one day and grounds was cutting the grass. Each time the mower moved by the window the bird would say hello when it was approaching and goodbye when it was past the window and moveing away.
I would LOVE to have a parakeet again! We had a parakeet growing up, his name was Pete, and he was the greatest bird ever. 
When I was a teen working at the pet store, a parakeet got out of the cage and flew around the bird room. When he landed, he unfortunately landed on the cage of a very mean larger bird, a parrot of some kind I can't recall... But the parrot bit one of his feet off as he sat on his cage. The owner of the pet store allowed me to take him home and he survived for a number of years afterward, though he would never let me hold him or pet him. I named him Pete again... as in, Peg Leg Pete.
Unfortunately, my husband has a problem with caged birds. He really doesn't like the idea of it at all. Never has. Our dream, when we build our dream home some day, is to have a large conservatory. We'll have a big pond in the middle with koi in it and lots of tropical plants and such... THEN I will be allowed to have some small parakeets or finches because they'll be free flying in the conservatory.
That's the plan anyway!
When I was a teen working at the pet store, a parakeet got out of the cage and flew around the bird room. When he landed, he unfortunately landed on the cage of a very mean larger bird, a parrot of some kind I can't recall... But the parrot bit one of his feet off as he sat on his cage. The owner of the pet store allowed me to take him home and he survived for a number of years afterward, though he would never let me hold him or pet him. I named him Pete again... as in, Peg Leg Pete.
Unfortunately, my husband has a problem with caged birds. He really doesn't like the idea of it at all. Never has. Our dream, when we build our dream home some day, is to have a large conservatory. We'll have a big pond in the middle with koi in it and lots of tropical plants and such... THEN I will be allowed to have some small parakeets or finches because they'll be free flying in the conservatory.
That's the plan anyway!
