We have friends with an African Grey. He’s not allowed to watch television anymore, particular cop dramas. He mimics the husband answering the phone (including the rings). And when he’s feeling silly, he calls himself different birds: “I’m a sexy chicken”, etc. He likes to mimic the cat, and mock the birdsong from outside.
The funniest thing is not that he thinks he’s a person, but that he thinks people are birds. The family has a friend who is a very large woman. She had not yet met the bird, came into the house, and the bird startled, stepped waaaaaay back on his perch and whistled slowly. “You’re a BIG BIRD,” he said in amazement.
Another friend has an African Grey and a Senegal; the African Grey considers the Senegal her “baby” (that’s the name she gave him, and uses consistently, despite the owners using a different name); before the Senegal fledged, she’d drop feet-full of seed down to where he waddled around on the floor below.
Amazing creatures! I’ll bet the Nakamuras are happy they taught the bird his address!
That is just amazing and hilarious! The bird could discern a large person from average and then such a comment! LOL
I’ve been so interested in these birds, I’d love to get one.