meadowflower ([info]meadowflower) wrote in [info]cockatiels,
@ 2005-01-06 23:31:00
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Vocal males
Are all males similar in their sing-songy-ness? Sunshine has a variety of sounds, and sometimes a new sound every day or every other day. He got them all by himself - with no help from us. Really pretty sounding stuff, especially when he's trying to woo the young Couscous, but it happens at other times too.

Do all cockatiels have similar sounds? Sunshine doesn't talk any words, although one of his whistles (when we go up or down the stairs) sounds like "Hello" (or it's what "Hello" would sound like if whistled.) Other than that he has a great variety of song. Couscous - she just goes phweet. :-\ Once. :-D

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[info]kasatka
2005-01-06 08:47 pm UTC (link)
They pick up a lot of sounds from their surroundings. I tend to go around squeaking a lot (I'm a turd =P) so Snapple has a fairly good imitation of that going on.

They also have a couple wild bird calls, and Pepsi came up with this long song all on his own. Not sure where he pulled it from.

Only the scream seems part of the standard cockatiel package. ;)

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[info]girlx512
2005-01-06 09:20 pm UTC (link)
Spike has the basic wolf whistle that usually comes after a whistle like you were trying to get someone to come over to you (*wheeoowee!*). Man, typing whistles really doesn't work. Anyway, he does variations of those, and the whistle equivelent of "pretty biiiiiiiird". All of his songs are based around the same notes, but he switches the themes up a lot depending on his mood. Sometimes they're quick, short, loud notes, other times they're long, drawn out, with vibrato. He does every combination therein too. I ought to record him and get some more webspace so you all could listen, I really like his songs.

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[info]eyelash
2005-01-06 10:34 pm UTC (link)
that whistle - everyone knows it - why dosen't it have a name?

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[info]girlx512
2005-01-06 10:36 pm UTC (link)
*wheeeoowee! wheewoooooo!*

That's his common song. It really needs a name :o)

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[info]ltdead
2005-01-07 01:35 am UTC (link)
Piper doesn`t imitate a single thing I do. I think it`s because he doesn`t love me. (Nah... he loves me. He even thinks I`m sexy. He sings for me, with his little come-hither look... and then when I come-hither, he tries to bite me. WEIRD BIRD.)

His songs are very similar to my previous cockatiel Sana (and they never met each other). However (much to my relief!) he`s never picked up that obnoxious `smoke alarm` song that Sana used to use. The smoke alarm song wasn`t an imitation of our smoke alarm or anything... it was just that obnoxious. A high pitched, repititous looped series of loud noise that I just detested.

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[info]saskia139
2005-01-07 04:36 am UTC (link)
The "smoke alarm song" sounds like what we call "hypertiel", which is produced by waving a dish towel in front of Rembrandt. It's kind of like the old "phaser on overload" noise from the original Star Trek.

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[info]aubrey_osiris
2005-01-07 07:17 am UTC (link)
Das sounds like a squeaky dog toy. And it's all my fault. :D

He also used to whistle Flight of the Valkyries (don't ask, haha XD), but now he has a little set of whistling notes he likes to use.

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[info]kuwaizair
2005-01-07 06:26 pm UTC (link)
Aub, wasn't it "our fault" when I shook the hell out of those gators?
Ecco sounds like a squeeker also....Ecco sounds awfull because i can't wistle.

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[info]aubrey_osiris
2005-01-08 06:07 am UTC (link)
Yes, the alligators had plenty to do with it.
But it started with the frog. XD

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[info]meadowflower
2005-01-08 07:59 am UTC (link)
"Flight of the Valkyries (don't ask, haha XD), "

HHAHAAAHAA That would be funny!

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[info]saskia139
2005-01-07 08:21 am UTC (link)
Mango and Rembrandt have a different but overlapping set of vocalizations. Neither of them uses words. Rembrandt is the more talkative of the two; his daily vocabulary includes "squeep", the wolf whistle, "cher-wee!", clucking and whistling (accompanied by lifted wings, to express affection), "weehoo" and "witty-hoo", and a variety of loud calls, used when someone leaves the room without his permission or when things are flapped vigorously. He also occasionally sings, a warbly noise like an aging opera singer might make.

Mango has her own versions of the squeep and wolf whistle, at a slightly lower pitch than Rembrandt; her distinctive call is a kind of whistle that goes "ooweeoo", with the "wee" louder and higher in pitch. When no one human is in the room, she sometimes whistles to herself, almost like a song, which sounds kind of like air being let out of a balloon, or a teakettle with a lot of water in it that's boiling but can't blow clearly.

People say that female birds don't sing, but I think Mango does, and my canary Nell did, too. It wasn't as showy as the male version, but it was definitely A Song. I've also noticed that the budgies, Charles and Julian, sometimes make quieter versions of the cockatiels' calls, particularly squeep, weehoo, and witty-hoo.

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[info]meadowflower
2005-01-07 03:20 pm UTC (link)
Maybe one day I'll capture the sounds and post them for you all. Some sound like yours. He rarely does the wolfwhistle tho'...

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