Best Method To Teach Your Quaker Parrot To Talk Is Through Modeling
There are many things that you will find appealing in parrots but perhaps the most intriguing thing about a Quaker parrot is its ability to talk and so, once these friendly feathered friends get started you can expect to hold a conversation with them as well as enjoy listening to the wonderful sounds that they can imitate. The only problem is that they don't always do things as we would like them to do.
Another name for the Quaker parrot is Quaker Parakeet and he is also referred to as the Monk or even Grey-Breasted Parakeet and he is believed to have originated from south-eastern Brazil through to Uruguay.
Tapes And CDs Won't Work
One of the more novel ways of teaching a parrot to talk is by playing tapes or CDs though when tried on a Quaker parrot, the results can leave you quite exasperated as well as disappointed because such means are successful only with the smaller varieties of parrots such as parakeets as well as cockatoos that like to mimic what they hear. The larger Quaker parrot on the other hand won't really react in the desired way even after having been made to listen to human speech for hours on end.
The simple truth is that a Quaker parrot is not a mimic and thus playing recordings of human sounds won't have the desired effect since they are more prone to repeating sounds that humans make so that they are able to communicate with their two legged masters. In fact, when they use these abilities (repeating sounds) in the wild it makes them feel like they are a part of big flock.
Thus, when he finds that you are the only other person that he will be interacting with, he will consider you as part of his flock and so a Quaker parrot will attempt to talk with you, and by understanding this behavior in a Quaker parrot, it would make more sense if you attempted teaching them certain kinds of sounds that you yourself made rather than having to rely on tapes and CDs.
You will also need to talk to the Quaker parrot as if he were a baby because this is the best way to get him to understand your speech and results too will be forthcoming a lot faster if you use this approach, and in fact, it is also better to talk to the Quaker parrot as if you expected him to learn the language.
However, the Quaker parrot is known to generally give the words their own meanings and they will then generally use the words as a means to elicit a reaction from you rather than know what the words mean. To their way of thinking a word that gets their masters excited would be a good word and thus they will learn it faster and use it quite often as well.
To get best results from your Quaker parrot vis-à-vis teaching him to talk you will need to apply modeling methods and that is to perform an action that you desire from the bird and to then reward him when he says the correct word.
