Plss answer 90 points
write a ballad on a talking parrot
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How and why do parrots talk? Best talking parrot and teaching your parrot to talk
By Dorothy Schwarz 27 Oct 2016
Parrots don’t have vocal chords. Humans have a larynx; parrots have a syrinx. The same as do songbirds and members of the corvid (crow) family, mynah birds and the Australian lyrebird.
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How do parrots talk?
Parrots talk by modifying the air that flows over the syrinx to make sounds. The syrinx is located where the trachea splits into the lungs.
Parrots, particularly African Greys and members of the Amazon family are particularly good at imitating human words and sounds.
When I consider that a parrot has no lips or teeth the fact that both my Greys can imitate the timbre of my husbands voice never fails to amaze me.
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Why do parrots talk?
Pssitacines (the parrot family) and Passerines (the song bird families) use their voices to warn, to court, to communicate with their nestlings and to fight to defend a territory.
The majority of domesticated parrots are only a few generations removed from their wild cousins.
The sounds they make have a huge variation. Some are so pleasant to our ears that Mozart transcribed his pet starling’s voice into music.
Some like the shrieks of the Macaw or the Cockatoo family or some Conures can be extremely unpleasant. In fact I've known Cockatoo owners wear ear muffs!
Wild parrots use sound, whistles, chirps and squawks to communicate. How can the descendants of these same birds modify the sounds into recognizable human sounds? Ongoing research into birds’ vocal abilities and also their sense of rhythm is discovering more and more on this fascinating topic.
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What is the best talking parrot?
The best parrots for talking are:
African Greys
Timneh Greys
Yellow Naped Amazons
African Greys are particularly good for talking.
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African Greys and Amazons utilise the largest vocabulary of human words and Amazons are the best singers of our music. Although African Greys are fluent speakers, not many of them will speak on cue.
Magnificent macaws and beautiful cockatoos are not the best at talking. At most they’ll say a few words. But they are outstandingly clever.
Unless you have got a lot of spare time and a great deal of space, they’re not the most suitable pet parrots for the home environment.
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Best small to medium sized talking parrot
The African Grey is the best medium sized parrot for talking.
Some of the small parrots talk well. One champion budgie Puck (died 1974) was said to have had a vocabulary of 1700 words. But the budgerigar’s voice is high and piping and not easy to understand.
Tame Cockatiels will also talk. But again they will have a limited vocabulary.
Alexandrines
Quakers
Eclectus and
Jardines will all pick up some phrases.
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African Greys and Amazons utilise the largest vocabulary of human words and Amazons are the best singers of our music. Although African Greys are fluent speakers, not many of them will speak on cue.
Magnificent macaws and beautiful cockatoos are not the best at talking. At most they’ll say a few words. But they are outstandingly clever.
Unless you have got a lot of spare time and a great deal of space, they’re not the most suitable pet parrots for the home environment.
My article Caring for a parrot - an owners guide offers guidance on what you need to know.
Best small to medium sized talking parrot
The African Grey is the best medium sized parrot for talking.
Some of the small parrots talk well. One champion budgie Puck (died 1974) was said to have had a vocabulary of 1700 words. But the budgerigar’s voice is high and piping and not easy to understand.
Tame Cockatiels will also talk. But again they will have a limited vocabulary.