Talking Parakeet with 1000 Word Vocabulary!

[@aliciagiambrone577]

I can also attest that this was 100% genuine!!!! I met Boo in the mid 80's and will NEVER forget being blown away that this tiny parakeet not only could talk but spoke in Michael Vale's voice and said "Time to Make the Donuts". For years and years I wasn't sure if I had imagined it. I realize it is hard to believe but I was there and heard it for myself!!!!

[@wizardofvols2215]

Alicia Giambrone You wrote all that and still no one cares. 😢

[@TheOfficialEuro]

That awkward moment when that parakeet has a better relationship with the penguin than you are in with. XD

[@TheDaddyRob]

I always wanted to settle down with a nice penguin ;p

[@windymoore4009]

Very cute little budgie. Sorry you lost Boo, as he was a darling. Thanks for sharing this video of him. R.I.P. little Boo!

[@jeanrobart8584]

I love this! I had a bird for 9 1/2 years who started talking less than a month after he came to me. What a vocabulary!

[@U2onTV]

Boos daddy was the Dunkin Donut Man.

[@mb-j5594]

What a Precious baby bird!

[@erra404]

I like, "No biting, sweetheart."

[@mayarosem]

Very impressive & adorable! I'm trying to teach my budgies to talk through repetition & I hope they turn out like this

[@peccadilloangel]

Boo was the sweetest bird, and what a smart baby!

[@meowadoodle]

That is absolutely amazing!!what a sweet little bird.

[@PattyMMelt]

Some budgies are just gifted, I think. Even this budgies movements are like, "smarter" than any other budgie I've seen. Theres a lot going on in a select few of these guys' little heads.

[@warboop]

I can hear him making the sound of the toy rolling .I see you taped it down lol.He is fantastic!

[@U2onTV]

If we didn't tape it down, he would throw it over the side and onto the floor with his beak!

[@hollybell452]

I have had 4 birds that talked. They were in the front room where all the family. gathered and one night when we covered Buckwheat he said Shot. I was speechless, he never did shut up, unfortunately he really liked those cuss words. Wonderful little creatures.

[@DusterNZ]

Awww Boo you were just a gorgeous wee budgie bird with such good clear talking. I'm only just one and love to talk too!

[@ZoeyAngelG]

No biting Sweetheart! lol =P

[@drseafrog]

ZoeyAngelG No biting, that's mean!

[@U2onTV]

I assure you BOO was the real deal and his voice did sound a lot like his owner -- TV's "Fred the Baker" aka The Dunkin' Donut Guy from the TV commercials. Often birds take on the voice of the person who is teaching them.

[@U2onTV]

Yes

[@U2onTV]

Yes he died in the late 1980s

[@aliciagiambrone577]

I met Boo Boo at your apartment (I am a friend of your sister) the first time I heard Boo I could not believe it. He said clearly in a man's voice "time to make the donuts" it completely blew my mind! This was about 1985-86. Pretty unforgettable. I LOVE this video so much

[@crashstitches79]

First time I watched this, I thought there was a radio on in the background. Incredible vocal articulation.

[@guitarman338]

Love this bird ,so sad he has died,so funny to watch,lovely to have this to watch.

[@FlatWorld_Jomhuri_Regime]

So what if we could breed together the super high functioning talkers and create an entire group of super talkers?

[@julioalvarez2836]

cool retro parakeet! Im surprised he didnt have little sideburns and a cool button up shirt!

[@mkgtr10]

I show my budgie videos like this, he only make bird noises so far, but he is still young, even if he never "speaks human" it something we like to do together.

[@U2onTV]

He was actually more yellow -- called a "Lutino" parakeet. They are pretty common -- just a $20.00 purchase at the local pet store.

[@Sweetpeainkart]

haha his laugh is so creepy!! haha but super cute little guy

[@lichtmehr]

haha - love this crazy budgie guy!

[@ZoeyAngelG]

I love your bird!!!

[@Liuhuayue]

He has such a clear and nice voice. It sometimes sounds like he's plotting to himself, though.

[@susanbowman6652]

That little one needed another budgie for company. I always had two parakeets, and had a large macrame piece that wrapped around the cage, and hung from the ceiling.. It had areas where I could insert perches and food/water dishes. Their wings were clipped (although they could fly for very short distances), and always returned to their home base. I never closed the cage door. They went inside the cage to play with their toys, and to sleep at night. It was a perfect set-up. They were always together. I feel sad for one bird families.

[@LoveYourDNA]

A U2 loving bird fan!!! What's not to love?

[@U2onTV]

Yes, from a baby. Just repeating the words over and over got him talking.

[@missekeeke]

I just had to laugh when he said "Time to make Dunkin Donuts"

[@50parrotforlife]

Boo in love with that penguin tpy

[@bluewind12345]

don't all Parakeet sound like they are talking through walkie talkie? if they finish with OVER ... that would be hilarious lol

[@crashstitches79]

2:07 - **KISS** "I'm sorry, no no no..." **Booboo walks away**

[@BlueBerry-tc6tz]

I love that their voice sounds like bad crunchy audio

[@loopylots]

Budgies would make fantastic ventriloquists if they had hands :)

[@scottballinger40]

some of you really need to know what you writing about before you post such stupid comments! I have 2 budgies that both talk. Because it has learned from his owner who is male and probably has a deeper then normal voice it sounds a little odd. They are extreamly smart birds and will pick up anything said to them if repeated enough. check out Disco.

[@traceyrychewhite6374]

Scott Ballinger , I actually like Budgies who were trained by male's because a lot of times when a female owner trains the bird, they have very high pitched voices. He's awesome!

[@Pantbera]

@U2onTV You mentioned 7 year life. Did the bird's entire lifespan last just 7 years?

[@U2onTV]

Boo passed away in the late 1980's. This is only a small sampling of his vocabulary. He learned new words and phrases throughout his 8 years.

[@kenazahwebster2770]

When the bird is kissing the chicken says u taste like honey

[@harrycotterill34]

It's got the same toy as my budgie

[@teardropface]

Is Boo still around? How old? Very impressive vocabulary. Mango also says "Merry Chris". My bird so far has a vocabulary of 129 words and can say 135 different phrases and sentences that I've recorded at 19 months old. Did Boo learn most of his vocabulary in the beginning or was it pretty much evenly distribute thru out the years?

[@ciandarcy7727]

aww sorry to hear about boo but he was amazing! sounds like hes talking into a microphone xD

[@antoinetteroutledge]

Very cute Love his accent

[@leiaknowshowtorockandroll7505]

He all walking away saying sorry I’m not the real life

[@brendabidois9416]

i too have a talking budgie i adore that says manyamy words also mimics how i talk he coughs laughs swears they are very very clever never under estimate them

[@TheKrikri1997]

They do talk u just have to spend a lot of time with em together ! :)

[@heatherwilkins1997]

omg he was kissing that penguin! so cute!

[@angelrubio1792]

Other beak don't need to move

[@TheAntHar1]

4:11 Boo Boo Commercial Killer? Ha ha

[@paths2007]

Autobots move out! say that.. lol.

[@AmazonAmanda]

Awww I love this! I hope mine one day will talk so much

[@francoislacombe9071]

He really should be called "she". If Boo was a true Lutino, with the characteristic red eyes, it was most probably a female. It's not easy to see in the video but the top of its beak, where the nostrils are, does look brownish. Lutino and albino budgies are almost always females, for the same reason color blind humans are almost always males, those genes are on the X chomosome. In mammals, males have XY chomosomes, and in birds XY is for females. But male or female, that was one cute critter.

[@teardropface]

So sorry to hear that Boo is no longer with us.

[@xDEZIRx]

but lovely bird and sorry for your loss

[@4ngelaSolo]

It is amazing, also Boo was a female parakeet as I can see in its cere.

[@kichikubeihei229]

Is that correct?

[@leahgohlke942]

It doesn't seem like the bird is talking since his beak in not moving.

[@Rodsupremos]

Is it roleplaying with the penguin? crazy.

[@IndigoBug]

I've never seen one that was lime green like that with no black. Very pretty! Is he a typical parakeet?

[@kjolearys]

I believe this budgie is saying all of this. I would like to know how it was recorded. I think my budgie says so much, but I need a microphone like he uses.

[@U2onTV]

I hid a mic in the towel roll where he liked to play. Old school VHS camera way before cell phones!

[@MrJimmyd16]

Love it! Is Boo a female?

[@zoetzivas2663]

Awwww. So cute.

[@Tankpaw54]

no, it is not typical for budgies (what he is parakeets are many things you know like an apple is a fruit but a fruit doesnt have to be an apple) most budgies dont talk any near as much as this one. Males talk 10x more than females for most species.

[@TriciaMathieu]

Its a real talking I had a sweet bird like this couple years ago and he could say some word he learned from us and they really talk like that their sounds are similar. But every one of them can clearly talk like that but it still their real voice :)

[@ajimenez1719ify]

What happened to him? Why did he live such a short period of time? These little guys should live around 25 years or so. He was just fantastic!!

[@U2onTV]

Actually small parakeets like Boo have a life span of approx. 10 years. Larger birds live longer

[@yuuhhhboy5322]

I with my birds were like that but my birds Kiwi and Fiji are still so cute.Boo Boo is still cut toooooooo.

[@brendabidois1909]

I too have a budgie that talks extremely we'll blew me away when he started now he's says heaps of stuff

[@nachuss124]

how did you do it? i want to purchase one of this but the guys at the pet shop told me they didnt talk!

[@jakealan6985]

It's a budgie, not an african grey that holds the world record for largest vocabulary and experiments were done to the conclusion that the budgie knew what it was saying and asking for/commenting on.

[@jakealan6985]

Thanks.

[@nimraiman589]

Nice

[@TheViolet76]

Why some parakeets tones of voices are high pitched and some low pitched? Do they imitate their owner's voice? How long does it take this bird to start talking?

[@brieannahartley4491]

It took mine 4 years

[@princessanne46]

did you have him from baby hood how did you get him to know all of those words?

[@leiaknowshowtorockandroll7505]

He all flirting with the toy

[@krystalannawilliams2653]

Can i see conversation?

[@JoeyamilaL]

omg ! so cute !

[@lmbarak]

Did he make a *poot* at :08? LOL

[@warboop]

I get a kick out of people who say that the budgies are not talking it is fake . Let me tell you it is real I had one who said over 200 words and phrases . His Name was Mickey budgie .There are videos of him to and don't even thing about saying its fake because it isn't . This and other budgie videos are real put out on YT for the enjoyment of others who have them and know it is 100% real talking budgies. Besides that they have the largest vocab of all the birds including the African Gray .

[@angel2000317]

Aww, I've watched some of Mickey's videos and loved them! Thank you for sharing with all of us on YT. Out of the 4 budgies I've owned over the years (1 at a time), 2 have talked (my current budgie is about 3 years old and still learning more words and phrases). They're wonderful little birds!

[@angelspimp9292]

THIS BIRD IS STEWY

[@lubu_the_bird1609]

Whoa...O_o Kinda creepy to hear them speak so clearly...

[@hermienvalckenborg2301]

oh wat leuk

[@Robbiekilljoy69]

Is boo boo a he or she, I can't really tel, my iPod ha bad quality

[@HolmzLife]

Make most people think that it may be fake... But... who knows? Maybe it is real... it just doesn't see it.

[@emmie9435]

I think it's real because his head moves according to what word he is saying.

[@HolmzLife]

Emily Lowery Maybe they made it seem that way, and they planned it all out, so that it would seem real. Because they could make the talking go in with how he moved his head as well.

[@beachbaby54]

Are the male parakeets more apt to be talkers compared to the females? I had a few cockatiels and someone told me that the male of the species was the major talker. I was just wondering if this was so with parakeets. Anyone know who's on here? I'm thinking of getting a new baby soon.

[@glowlantern5273]

I have raised and owned over 200 cockatiels and parakeets and the following info pertains to those 2 breeds only. I have never had a female talker. Not all male birds talk. A male parakeet has blue colored nostrils that deepen in color as the bird gets older. Generally, the male nostrils of both breeds are wider and larger than the female. A young male cockatiel always tends to be more vocal than a female who is quiet in comparison. After six months it is easy to tell the sex of most birds. A male likes to look at himself in a mirror. If your bird makes any sound that sounds like a word you should keep repeating it back. Like "bad" or "what." They start to catch on. Even a baby bird that gets attached to one of your females, is probably a male. Of course there are always exceptions to the rule. DNA sex tests are also available for birds.

[@Adidasforever326]

glow lantern give me one

[@beachbaby54]

Thank you so much for your info glow lantern

[@Takethislonging]

i find this cute and creepy

[@leiaknowshowtorockandroll7505]

Physco bird

[@rodenthideout]

too cute!

[@ishouldbesleeping1354]

He needs a mate ASAP 💕❣️

[@U2onTV]

That's a microphone not a speaker!

[@BoricuaSincero]

+U2onTV How did you teach it soo many words? :)

[@U2onTV]

+BoricuaSincero You just repeat things / words many times and this bird was so smart he just learned them.

[@cosmemontoya4938]

+BoricuaSincero I think it was like that...

[@BoricuaSincero]

Lol after many months and me NOT getting it. My own budgie can say up to 4 words in Spanish and she sounds very similar to this little fellow. The irony of it all xD

[@hexnymph]

XD

[@ambarawio]

cute

[@dorothydiabetes]

isn't that a female budgie? if so, I thought they couldn't talk

[@mzphillips53]

That k-pop trash can. Females can talk, you just might have to take a little more time and be patient. My Birdie says pretty-baby- bird, she learned them individually but now says the whole phrase. Plus good morning baby bird, I was surprised when she figured out she could put words together to make sentences because I will usually just teach her a word or two at a time. And she likes to make kissing sounds. I kiss her she kisses me back kind of thing. A wolf whistle was the first thing she learned. She reminds me of a construction worker whistling at girls walking by.😘 Ya gotta admit, she is a pretty baby bird!

[@syncity3640]

Hes a male read the description!!!!!

[@yuuhhhboy5322]

i mean wish

[@TheKookyKonure]

No way José.

[@paulinecooney6669]

Hehehehehehe

[@GameOvertheboss]

its not real is it?

[@dannyspl]

Don't be fooled the owner speaking into a microphone you can tell birds don't breathe heavy

[@innosanto]

this is how budgies sound. And the budgie imitates the breath sound.

[@P-star-]

His throat is moving.

[@angel2000317]

Lol, it's true! My talking budgie imitates me taking a breath and clearing my throat. It sounds so natural that I didn't realize what he was doing for awhile. :oD I believe the Guinness World Record for biggest bird vocabulary is still held by a budgie. :) People really underestimate them, but I've had 4 (2 have talked), and they're wonderful!

[@brendabidois9416]

ur just dumb or what

[@50parrotforlife]

Toy

[@SteevHat]

Holy shit. Clean your counter and quit letting animals walk around on it. I wouldn't eat toast from that kitchen.

[@fairybits]

Why do all the birds speak in a MALE VOICE instead of a FEMALE VOICE?

[@P-star-]

Usually it depends on who's teaching it

[@fairybits]

ok. :)Emily Star

[@joeydaniel9466]

[@binch1646]

the voice is kinda creepy

[@ricebird]

+Jesslyn Ann (Lovedestroyedme) ikr

[@Law_desu15]

Not a pet for people with low iq