Kalu Talks

My friend's Senegal parrot is staying here for a year. She knows quite a few phrases in English and has already learned to imitate my cockatiels and conures. Here she says a few things like "Hi, Kalu!" and "Good morning!", queeps like a cockatiel, and puts her head on upside-down.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• kalu
• parrot
• senegal
• talking
• talk
• bird

[proviewsg]

Kalu is amazing. My uncle recently adopted a 2 year old Senegal. But i wonder whether is still possible to train the bird to talk when he's already 2years old?

[Illucian]

It definitely is. :) Two years old is barely puberty for a Senegal parrot, and in fact, Kalu is now three! They learn through their whole lives. From the time we started taking care of Kalu to a year later when she went back home with her actual owner, she learned so many new words and sounds. So it's definitely possible! They tend to be shy about it, though, and it may take them a while to get comfortable talking around people.

[Sidcup12]

it didn't talk...why does the title say it talks?

[JenJW]

Beautiful bird! Our senegal parrot, Loki, doesn't talk but makes all kinds of sounds.

[Metal5Dark]

yeh they live up to 50 years to 2 years is yooooung

so mine is 10month so says the pet shop staff

but hes a slow eater and a weak climber and brealy intract with toys ?

so is it just his pearsonalty or its his age ? and hes tame and i got him 2 days ago

so info plz !!!

[ninja6kid]

um it didint talk...

[NillyTales]

Do Senegal Parrots like to be in pairs?

[EscortSportDriver]

aw you have similar as mine, mine was given to me by my fiance's mom and i also have cockatiels and the jenday conure. mine mocks both of them, their scream espically the conure and mine also talks alot, mostly sound effect noise like door creak, wolf whistle, actual kiss sound, saying eww, whistling for the dogs, laughs and alot more. mines also DNA sexed as female. she bobs head and drops her wings real low alot of times.

[juuliaaxo]

Hes soo cute i got a bird just like him it works to say step up to get him out of his cage but you finger on his belly and say step up when he bites calmly say no ow no ow constently and he will learn he also whislte tweet twoo hold a treet in ur hand then whislt then give it to him and he will learn same with talking

[pinkpearlbutterfly]

there's the "step-up" (though I don't recommend it for people with slender fingers... if your finger it small enough to fit in it's beak then it'll bite sometimes and it hurts! trust me, I know) or the towel(they love that) :)

[pinkpearlbutterfly]

I know for sure that females tend to have less orange and males more. There might be exceptions, that usually works in most cases. :)