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zazanomore Hyacinth Macaw

Join date: 2011-05-18 Age: 19 Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario My Birds: Einstein - Cockatiel
Clyde - Budgie
Bonnie - Budgie
Madoc - Budgie Posts: 1269
 | Subject: Can you tell the difference between your birds' voices? Sun Jul 03, 2011 4:58 pm | |
| Of the same species of course.
I can always tell the difference between my budgies voices. Bonnie's voice seems to be higher than Clyde's.
I can shut my eyes and tell which one is chirping.
I'm wondering if anyone else can tell the difference between their same species birds. |
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Guest Guest
 | Subject: Re: Can you tell the difference between your birds' voices? Sun Jul 03, 2011 5:02 pm | |
| Right now mine are all one of a kind, but in the past I had two tiels different as night and day, but the budgies all sounded the same. One bitched more though. |
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RogerP Eclectus

Join date: 2011-05-19 Age: 45 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada My Birds: ~Merlin - Maroon Bellied Conure
(Hatchdate May 15, 2010)
~Arthur - Red Bellied Parrot
(Hatchdate January 7, 2009, rescued October 7, 2011)
Posts: 671
 | Subject: Re: Can you tell the difference between your birds' voices? Sun Jul 03, 2011 5:07 pm | |
| Sorry, can't help here. To borrow from the pet peeves post, I am "aviculturally challenged"  , having only Merlin right now. |
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kaeladedah Hyacinth Macaw

Join date: 2011-05-18 Age: 23 Location: Pennsylvania, USA My Birds: Cheney Bird, Green Cheek Conure
Pigpen, Lutino Budgie
Piper, Sky Blue Spangle Greywing Budgie Posts: 1277
 | Subject: Re: Can you tell the difference between your birds' voices? Sun Jul 03, 2011 5:35 pm | |
| I could tell Pigpen and No Name apart. I can tell Pigpen and Piper apart. Cheney Bird is easy since he has a distinct voice. I can also tell other birds from my bird's voices whether it's at a pet store or vet. |
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GlassOnion Hyacinth Macaw

Join date: 2011-05-19 Age: 20 Location: Vancouver My Birds: Cockatiel, Budgerigar Posts: 1209
 | Subject: Re: Can you tell the difference between your birds' voices? Sun Jul 03, 2011 6:47 pm | |
| I can't tell between Apple and Spice. They are both Cockatiels. |
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VickiNumbers Hyacinth Macaw

Join date: 2011-05-21 Age: 44 Location: Denver, CO, United States My Birds: Allie ~ Yellow Sided Green Cheek Conure
Sam ~ Blue Front Amazon
Caesar ~ Bronze Wing Pionus (actually my HUSBAND's bird *grin*)
Pippin ~ Grey Cockatiel
Cookie ~ Lutino Cockatiel
Forté ~ Budgerigar
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 | Subject: Re: Can you tell the difference between your birds' voices? Sun Jul 03, 2011 7:16 pm | |
| LOL! I USED to be able to tell my 3 different species birds apart, but I can't any more!
When the Quaker started copying the Lovebird, and the Lovebird fell in love with the Conure and started using her contact call as well as copying some of the Quaker's squawks, I gave up! _________________
"Many have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You remain responsible forever, for what you have tamed." ~Antoine de Saint Exupery ..... ....... ~*~ Vicki ~*~ .... Allie.... Sam.... Caesar ...... Cookie...... Pippin
http://BunchesOfBudgies.blogspot.com/ |
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henpecked Hyacinth Macaw

Join date: 2011-05-18 Age: 55 Location: NC/Fla My Birds: Jake hen YN (his)
Stacy hen YN (hers)
Kia male Panama
Kong hen Panama
Nitro male YN
Micky male Red Lored
Binkie hen YN
Many other Amazons Posts: 1222
 | Subject: Re: Can you tell the difference between your birds' voices? Sun Jul 03, 2011 9:02 pm | |
| Yeah, most of the time i can tell the difference,I did catch myself looking to see who was saying that because it was a bird who dosen't say much.With 20 zons in the house it can get crazy at times because they can mimic each other so well,but yeah most of the time i can tell who's saying what,The OWAs on the other hand all (4) have the exact same contact call and it's usually all 4 at once.The tiels, i don't even try, there's 2 dozen in a flight cage and they're a flock,they're are a couple of alpha males that i call song misters who teach the rest their favorite "songs" and serenade the others in the evenings. |
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moa Sun Conure

Join date: 2011-05-18 Age: 18 My Birds: Rainbow and the unnamed gcc Posts: 348
 | Subject: Re: Can you tell the difference between your birds' voices? Sun Jul 03, 2011 9:50 pm | |
| at the store the gcc don't sound like rainbow, maybe I'll go listen to some youtube videos to compare |
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Margaret Hyacinth Macaw

Join date: 2011-05-18 Age: 39 Location: Chicago My Birds: • Amazon: Lucky
• Cockatiels: Chico, Mickey
• Budgies: Mango, Blueberry, Plum Posts: 1305
 | Subject: Re: Can you tell the difference between your birds' voices? Mon Jul 04, 2011 2:26 am | |
| I don't have as many as Hennpecked, so I can recognize the difference of each one. The funny thing, one of the budgie learn mimicking my and Chico contact call and I didn't figure it out which one yet. It's a lot quieter than Chico, but sounds like wee-e-e whistle |
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flappinhappy Sun Conure

Join date: 2011-05-18 Age: 49 Location: Palmetto, Florida My Birds: (R) denotes rescue birds
(R) Stacie, YN F
(R) Mickey, RL M
(R) Miss Kong, Panama F
(R) Binkie, YN F
Merlin, Gracie and Mercie my little Jack Yappers
44 chickens and 2 turkeys Posts: 317
 | Subject: Re: Can you tell the difference between your birds' voices? Mon Jul 04, 2011 10:41 am | |
| I am here 24-7 and yep I can tell who is saying what and who is trying to mimic whom all of the birds that are in the house I can tell apart in my sleep. The tiels are out on the porch and don't normally get loud enough to get over the TV. |
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Nevermore Cockatiel
Join date: 2011-05-19 Location: Canada My Birds: Captain Jack Parrot: Green-cheeked Conure
Cheeky/Sir Cheeks - Cockatiel Posts: 161
 | Subject: Re: Can you tell the difference between your birds' voices? Mon Jul 04, 2011 12:40 pm | |
| Weeellll...I only have Jack. BUT I am trained (forever ongoing) in identifying birds by their song. So I can understand how you would be able to tell the difference between your parrots.
There are always some birds that sound very alike (American Robin vs Baltimore Oriole). But there is always a trick to telling them apart. For the Robin and Baltimore Oriole; its that the Baltimore Oriole sounds like it took singing lessons. Its clearer, smoother. Nothing you could learn except by listening to them regularly. I can see it being the same way for pet parrots; even the same species. |
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evil chicken Umbrella Cockatoo

Join date: 2011-05-18 Age: 16 Location: Southern California My Birds: Sam -cinnamon pied cockatiel
Drake "Ducky" Laurence Lars -sun conure
Eric -whiteface pied cockatiel
Chicky Baby -red bantee hen -my avatar. Not really a parrot, but y'know, gotta include her anyway Posts: 725
 | Subject: Re: Can you tell the difference between your birds' voices? Mon Jul 04, 2011 7:48 pm | |
| I can tell Sam & Eric's voices apart. The notes they hit are slightly off from each other, even when they "say" the same thing (most commonly contact calling - I can't go anywhere with one bird without the other two getting all indignant  ). I'm going to tack on a "usually" though... When I'm not paying much attention and I'm down the hall in another room I sometimes mix them up. |
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crystalsbirdtoys Sun Conure

Join date: 2011-05-19 Location: Ottawa, Ontario My Birds: African Grey - Merlin
Caique - Rosco
Cockatiel - Stryder Posts: 316
 | Subject: Re: Can you tell the difference between your birds' voices? Mon Jul 11, 2011 7:24 am | |
| We have 3 species...
Stryder just talks like Stryder.
Rosco talks like himself AND Stryder... he will make a Stryder scream and blame Merlin ("Meeerrrlliiinn!!")
Merlin is a brat and sounds JUST like Rosco AND Stryder - it gets confusing some days. He will scream like Stryder in Rosco's tone and blame himself.
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VickiNumbers Hyacinth Macaw

Join date: 2011-05-21 Age: 44 Location: Denver, CO, United States My Birds: Allie ~ Yellow Sided Green Cheek Conure
Sam ~ Blue Front Amazon
Caesar ~ Bronze Wing Pionus (actually my HUSBAND's bird *grin*)
Pippin ~ Grey Cockatiel
Cookie ~ Lutino Cockatiel
Forté ~ Budgerigar
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 | Subject: Re: Can you tell the difference between your birds' voices? Mon Jul 11, 2011 3:41 pm | |
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ScooterNScotty Hyacinth Macaw

Join date: 2011-05-24 Age: 51 Location: Southern California My Birds: Scooter
* "Normal" male Green-cheeked Conure
* (hatched 3/2010)
Scotty
*male Cape Parrot
*(HD unk ~2008)
Blanco (Caballo Blanco)
*Whitefaced male cockatiel
*(HD unk, found 4/2012) Posts: 1878
 | Subject: Re: Can you tell the difference between your birds' voices? Mon Jul 11, 2011 6:12 pm | |
| I don't have multiples of the same species, but there are times I have trouble telling the Cape from the GCC or the Cape from my husband! The video clip I posted a while back has a bit at the beginning where Scotty wolf-whistles and Scooter imitates him. It's easy to tell who is who like that, but if I just heard one in isolation, I'm not so sure!
Scotty has phrases that he says in different voices -- He has a bunch of "Hellos". I suspect if we had another Cape with similar talking ability and similar exposure it would be hard to tell them apart. But because I know his repertoire pretty well, I am sure I'd be able to pick him out of a crowd based on his vocalizations... it's not so much the sound of his voice as what he does with it. |
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