My Parrots' Vocabulary!

9/2/2006

I have two parrots who talk, Rufus and Peanut Boy. Check out their website!

I will be adding to this list as I remember new things. They say a lot, I just haven’t written them down before.

Peanut Boy’s vocabulary:

• (whew!)
• (whistles for the dogs) (Peanut Boy whistles for the dogs if they bark too much.)
• Want peanut
• Want peanut!
• WANT PEANUT! (Peanut Boy has a one track mind.)

Rufus’s Vocabulary:

• (barks like a dog)
• (bomb falling and exploding) (This one is interactive. If I do the bomb falling whistle he will do the explosion.)
• (cell phone ring)
• (clicks tongue)
• (clucks like a chicken)
• (coughs, cough, cough
• (dial phone) What’s new? Mm hm, mm hm, mm hm… (Woman’s voice)
• (dials phone) Hello, yeah, OK, bye bye (Man’s voice)
• (dog howling)
• (dog yapping) (Little, yappy dog. This must be "Merlin".)
• (dove cooing) (Rufus loves animal calls.)
• (kiss sound)
• (lady’s scream)
• (laughing)(This is a hearty belly laugh in a man’s voice.)
• (meows like a kitty)
• (microwave beep)
• (mumbling)
• (peacock call)
• (smoke alarm)
• (squeaks) (Rufus loves to imitate squeaky doors and drawers.)
• (tunk tunk tunk tunk)(This sound like knocking on a hollow metal tank.)
• (whew!)
• (whines like a puppy)
• (whistles for the dogs)
• (wolf whistle)
• Bad boy
• Booooop
• Buck buck buck buck bird
• Bye bye
• C’mere
• C’mere (snap snap snap snap – snapping fingers sound
• Good boy! (Rufus does not say this very often! He’s a naughty boy most of the time!)
• Ha ha ha ha ha!
• Hello baby!
• Hello birby! (Rufus gets baby and bird mixed up and it comes out birby.)
• Hello bird! (He will walk up to other birds and say this.)
• Hello Merlin
• Hello!
• Hey! (Rufus first said this after getting dive bombed by a parakeet.)
• La la la la la la la (Rufus like to make up his own songs.)
• Marco! (waiting for us to say Polo) (Rufus likes interactive games)
• Merlin! No! No! No! No! (From what I gather Rufus used to live with a little yappy dog named Merlin.)
• Merlin! Sit, sit, sit, sit, sit!!
• No way!
• No! No! No! No!
• Oh
• Oh, boy
• Oh, yeah
• Pretty bird
• Pretty boy
• Shhh
• Sit
• WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!! (This one is loud!)
• What!
• What! What! What! What! What!
• What’s new bird?
• What’s new?
• What’s that?
• Whee ooooh!
• Whew!
• Whoa!
• Women!

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