Parrotresearch.com- A Journey Into the Mind of A Talking Parrot
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A Phenomena
Many people believed Victor was the Einstein of parrots. Guinness World Records recently contacted me and said the world record for "The Most Proficient Talking Bird" was an African Grey parrot named Prudle. At the time it reined as the unbeaten champion and lived from 1965-1976 with a vocabulary of fewer than 800 words. However, in 1995, there was a budgie named puck who had the largest vocabulry of over 1700 words.
I recently started counting Victors words and he too had at least an 800 word vocabulary. Since then I have translated many more of his recording and his vocabulary has at least doubled. The difference with Victor was, he not only spoke all these words, he knew the meanings as well, and put them into proper context using his own sentences. Victor was recorded speaking and making conversations where he would say several hundred words that flowed together to make his own wonderful stories. You can hear some of these recordings on the conversations page of his web site.
There was also quite a bit of phenomena happening in Victor's recordings as well. It seems like they are a magnet for the metaphysical or things of the unknown. For example you can clearly hear some EVP in his "Hear Something Else" recording and that is just one example of many.
Here are three of my favourites. Before these recordings were made, Victor had only seen other budgies when he was a baby. After three years, I decided to get him a mate. This is what he said a few hours after she arrived. I call it "To Know Her." You have to listen carefully though, because Victor is excited and talking fast, but follow the words I provide and that should help.
Victor's Memorial
