Cockatiel (Jazz) Whistling part of song

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Cockatiel (Jazz) Whistling part of song

Postby bmsweb » Tue Jul 20, 2010 2:39 am

Before you get too excited let me say this really isn't much of a video, since he wont whistle while in his cage. If I leave his cage open and leave my Video Camera near it, he will land on my camera and destroy it.

To cut a long story short I managed to get him to whistle only a small part of the Adam's Family with the Click Click. Sorry this is the best I've been able to do so far. The plan is to get him doing the whole song, plus the other 2 songs he knows!

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Re: Cockatiel (Jazz) Whistling part of song

Postby Michael » Tue Jul 20, 2010 8:21 am

That was cute. You didn't have to preface it with so many apologies, we know how tough it is.
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Re: Cockatiel (Jazz) Whistling part of song

Postby Giantmoa » Tue Jul 20, 2010 3:54 pm

ahaha, I love the "click click" part. very cool :thumbsup: did he pick it up on his own or did you specifically teach him to whistle the song?
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Re: Cockatiel (Jazz) Whistling part of song

Postby bmsweb » Tue Jul 20, 2010 4:29 pm

Cockatiels are naturally good at whistling. So basically you whistle the tune you want them to learn when they are paying attention. They will pick it up. My son wanted Jazz to learn this one. The hardest part was getting him to do the click click bit. I will get the whole lot from beginning to end on video!
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Re: Cockatiel (Jazz) Whistling part of song

Postby ptuga72 » Tue Jul 20, 2010 5:15 pm

that is wonderful!
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Re: Cockatiel (Jazz) Whistling part of song

Postby garou97 » Mon Aug 16, 2010 12:55 pm

Wow, that's great! :thumbsup: Must have taken a while to teach him!
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Re: Cockatiel (Jazz) Whistling part of song

Postby el-parrot » Mon Aug 16, 2010 4:10 pm

bmsweb wrote:Before you get too excited let me say this really isn't much of a video, since he wont whistle while in his cage. If I leave his cage open and leave my Video Camera near it, he will land on my camera and destroy it.

To cut a long story short I managed to get him to whistle only a small part of the Adam's Family with the Click Click. Sorry this is the best I've been able to do so far. The plan is to get him doing the whole song, plus the other 2 songs he knows!


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