Budgie's vocabulary stuns humans! 

My Munchkin has learned zipper from Kiwi, too! They are the coolest little animals! ✨

We noticed Kiwi first talking about 2-3 months after we got him. So he was about 5-6 months old at that point.

@@KiwiandPixel Thank you for that info. Pi was stuck quarantined at the store for a few months because he came in with a dislocated wing and a fracture. Being separated from the other birds at such a young age made him bond with humans quickly. So unfortunately he got a late start to the going home process. They aged him at around 6 months, so now I’m guessing he’s 9 months. But, the funniest thing is, he’s absolutely addicted to tech! Loses his mind when I won’t give up my phone or iPad. Even more funny, he’s addicted to YOUR videos! He flys down and lands on my phone when I’m playing Kiwi, and he puts his ear to the speaker. He’s now trying to mimic Kiwi! Amazing!

I suspect that has to do with a bird's natural voice, and the way HUMANS actually react to it. A Human will try to parrot the bird more often than the bird tries to parrot the human. I imagine "HI" is pretty close to a natural sound a ringneck makes, and because human recognizes it as a word, it's of course reinforced over and over again once the human hears it. At leasts that's my layman's theory on it

All most all ring necks sounds exactly the same when the talk. Budgie voices differs a lot how they speak human voices. My past budgie had a vocabulary of 600+ words and he could say each one of those words with my voice, my sons voices, my uncles voice and my girlfriends voice including her south Swedish scania accent.

Yes

Here's a video we did on that! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hgWQ6G7Z86w.html

Kiwi (the green one) just turned 10 and Pixel is 7.

You need to start with a single male bird. We have a video about this here: m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hgWQ6G7Z86w.html

Kiwi is 10 years old and Pixel is 7 years old

Camera: Canon R7 with RF 24-105mm f/2.8L IS USM Z on a DJI RS3 Pro gimbal. 4K crop mode with one notch of stabilization/crop turned on. Also, the mic is a Rode Wireless Pro with 32 bit float onboard recording, synced with onboard camera audio.

These are budgerigars 'budgies', not parakeets

@@annexton3795 Hi Anne, that's wrong. Have a look at the video explaining this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-L_3_LKqwj3Y.html

@@KiwiandPixel Thank you for the explanation. Here on the southern tip of Africa we have a few species (is that the right term???) of sparrows, known commonly as mossies, so I guess in America they (you) don't split hairs just like we don't with our mossies. To me parakeets are much larger birds than budgies, like the ring-necked parakeet. So I accept that in the US a budgie is called a parakeet, a tap is called a faucet, a robot is called a traffic light - just a different word for a familiar object.