Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Ringneck parrots speech learning phase


Tweety Is very good in observing things.
If any bird calls near my house, it will carefully listen to the voice and it replicates it exactly similar. Except crows voice it imitate to all other birds : ) . The Red vented bulbul bird is one of his best friend.

Red vented bulbul bird

Since it does not like crows, it will always try to get away from crows.
Rarely, it will imitate my speech … Since its young its vocal output is not fully matured. So when it tries to deliver human speech. Some tones with higher bass will not be exactly, same during the mimic of the speech. Birds which comes near my home does not have higher bass sound, its sound will have high pitch effect. So tweety does not find any difficulty in replicating those sounds. When it tries to imitate my speech it will give some gap and try the imitation. Tweety will be normally interested in imitation during evening times. If it tries to express some thing to us, It will use a predefined formatted sounds. For example if it calls us to pick her up. It will call in different voice and volume and if it calls for food it will call in different tone, if its very angry then its tone will be off different pitch. So we can easily differentiate its mood and the purpose of its call from its tone.

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