My Apologies
filed in Uncategorized on Nov.26, 2002
My mom does large bird rescue (parrots), so I asked her about it. This was her response:
Budgies are the best talkers in the bird world. Parrots have the intelligence of a 4-5 year old child and many will converse intelligently. Fred [friend who does bird rescue] has several birds who do that, and when I am alone with Merlin [Amazon Parrot], she will converse with me.
So it looks like I was wrong, and it’s very possible that the site is not a hoax. I’m sorry.
(Although, I can’t understand a word her birds say. My wife and I think that it’s the same thing as a parent interpreting every gurgle a baby makes as their first words. But who knows.)
Nov 26th, 2002 on 2:26 pm
Aye, but did you know that the name budgerigar comes from the native word “Betchareekah” (sic) which means “Good Meal”.
This suggests that despite their much vaunted language skills budgies still couldn’t talk their way off of the barbecue..
heheh.
Nov 26th, 2002 on 2:49 pm
If you’ve ever had to live with a few chatty birds, you may know why they were on the barbeque in the first place.
Nov 28th, 2002 on 5:16 pm
Your mom does good things. I admire her.
Nothing to apologize for bro. You are a skeptic, if you would have said, “Wow, neat! I need to get a budgie too!” I would have been worried and most likely would have had you commited.