Dancing cockatoo Snowball's diverse dance styles show humans aren't the only ones who like to move

[Bohemian]

A picture is worth a thousand words:

The science:

No one needs to teach this bird how to boogie

 

[Mert]

I love birds!
Thanks for posting this cute one.

 

[Bohemian]

I love birds!
Thanks for posting this cute one.

My pleasure.

 

[Trinitee]

That was wonderful, thank you!

 

[Indy Anna]

Thank you for the smile!

 

[Bohemian]

That was wonderful, thank you!

Thank you for the smile!

Again my pleasure! When I watch that clip all I hear are the lyrics ‘Birds just want to have fun.’.

 

[gregjrichards]

Snowball is an amazing Cockatoo. They are wonderful birds. Thank you for sharing his story here.

 

[Bohemian]

Snowball is an amazing Cockatoo. They are wonderful birds. Thank you for sharing his story here.

He is, isn’t he? I’m glad you replied, Greg. It gave me the opportunity to watch the clip again. It always makes me smile

 

[crhedBngr]

I was thinking of Snowball the other day! Thanks for posting this.

 

[Bohemian]

I was thinking of Snowball the other day! Thanks for posting this.

My pleasure. He’s hard to forget, that’s for sure!

 

[SugarQueen]

Ex and I had several parrots. Our severe macaw hated me with a passion. She would actively seek me out to attack. When ex was away for work the only way I could keep her under some kind of control was to play music. Not just any music, the Spanish station. Lol the only problem was she hated when they would SPEAK Spanish! She was the only bird I was happy to leave with the ex. Lol
Our Africa Grey was a great bird. He was big on humming and shoobie doobie doooooo! It was this funny thing like singing but he didn’t know the words. Every night he would ask me to sing a rockabye night night. Lol gosh I miss him.

 

[gregjrichards]

I’ll just wing it! Parrot becomes internet sensation after breaking into an interpretive dance routine to a Russian folk song

Parrot becomes internet sensation after breaking into an interpretive dance routine | Daily Mail Online

Another parrot that can dance which I thought was funny.

 

[Bohemian]

Ex and I had several parrots. Our severe macaw hated me with a passion. She would actively seek me out to attack. When ex was away for work the only way I could keep her under some kind of control was to play music. Not just any music, the Spanish station. Lol the only problem was she hated when they would SPEAK Spanish! She was the only bird I was happy to leave with the ex. Lol
Our Africa Grey was a great bird. He was big on humming and shoobie doobie doooooo! It was this funny thing like singing but he didn’t know the words. Every night he would ask me to sing a rockabye night night. Lol gosh I miss him.

One of my friends has a macaw. It’s blue, white and yellow with black markings on its face. I’ve seen it crack nuts so there’s no way I’m getting my fingers anywhere near it.

Isn’t the bird who can say a couple of hundred words an African Grey? There’s another parrot that can paint too.

I’m not sure I could have a companion animal like a bird. My cats wouldn’t like it for a start!

 

[Bohemian]

I’ll just wing it! Parrot becomes internet sensation after breaking into an interpretive dance routine to a Russian folk song

Parrot becomes internet sensation after breaking into an interpretive dance routine | Daily Mail Online

Another parrot that can dance which I thought was funny.

Love it! Parrots are so clever!

 

[SugarQueen]

Yes, African Grey Parrots can have a huge vocabulary. Unlike most other parrots they do not just mimic words and sounds. Greys actually are equivalent to a 6-7 year old child or more.
Oh the wonderful stories I could tell about my boy!!

 

[Bohemian]

Yes, African Grey Parrots can have a huge vocabulary. Unlike most other parrots they do not just mimic words and sounds. Greys actually are equivalent to a 6-7 year old child or more.
Oh the wonderful stories I could tell about my boy!!

Go ahead. Tell those stories.

 

[SugarQueen]

Let’s see, we had 7 birds, every night Bullet would say night night peepers
Night night woody
Night night sherbie etc. Always ending with night night Mommy Bird.

Bullet knew lots of colors. Anyone remember the big pop apart toddler beads? I bought those to start teaching him colors. I would spread them out on the floor and ask for a specific color. Bullet would bring me the correct color bead and say that’s whatever color. One day I asked for red, he brought me yellow. He dropped it in front of me, said that’s not red that’s yellow, and started laughing!
I came home one day to his cage door open and no bird inside. He had NEVER done that! I found him in another room on top of an old rotary phone. He was bending over, yelling into the mouth piece “ I said Daddy’s not home”. It took me a minute to figure out what happened. Someone called and left a message on the old school answering machine. Bullet heard someone talking to “daddy” and seemed annoyed that they didn’t listen when he said daddy wasn’t home! Apparently he let himself out of the cage to yell at the caller. When he was done he went back in his cage and closed the door! Lol

 

[SugarQueen]

One of the first things I taught Bullet was his name and address. As often as possible we would have someone he didn’t really know stop by and say hello, and ask him his name. He would tell them his name and his address. I did that so should he ever get loose there was a better chance he would get back to us.

 

[Bohemian]

Let’s see, we had 7 birds, every night Bullet would say night night peepers
Night night woody
Night night sherbie etc. Always ending with night night Mommy Bird.

Bullet knew lots of colors. Anyone remember the big pop apart toddler beads? I bought those to start teaching him colors. I would spread them out on the floor and ask for a specific color. Bullet would bring me the correct color bead and say that’s whatever color. One day I asked for red, he brought me yellow. He dropped it in front of me, said that’s not red that’s yellow, and started laughing!
I came home one day to his cage door open and no bird inside. He had NEVER done that! I found him in another room on top of an old rotary phone. He was bending over, yelling into the mouth piece “ I said Daddy’s not home”. It took me a minute to figure out what happened. Someone called and left a message on the old school answering machine. Bullet heard someone talking to “daddy” and seemed annoyed that they didn’t listen when he said daddy wasn’t home! Apparently he let himself out of the cage to yell at the caller. When he was done he went back in his cage and closed the door! Lol

One of the first things I taught Bullet was his name and address. As often as possible we would have someone he didn’t really know stop by and say hello, and ask him his name. He would tell them his name and his address. I did that so should he ever get loose there was a better chance he would get back to us.

What lovely stories SugarQueen. Thanks for sharing them. particularly like the one where he said ‘I said Daddy’s not home!’. What a crack up

 

[crhedBngr]

. . . and then there was Alex. Alex was a Congo African Gray with a remarkable vocabulary (he passed in 2007). Here is some info. on Alex:

Meet Alex The Parrot, The Bird With A Vocabulary Bigger Than Yours