Parrot comes home speaking Spanish.

[Nebulous]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/13/missing-parrot-comes-home-speaking-spanish_n_5978152.html

TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) — A pet parrot that spoke with a British accent when it disappeared from its home four years ago has been reunited with its owner — and the bird now speaks Spanish.

The Daily Breeze reported Sunday (http://bit.ly/1qU5dU3) the reunion was brought about by a Southern California veterinarian who mistook the African gray parrot for her own missing bird.

Teresa Micco tracked Nigel's microchip to Darren Chick, a Brit who lives in Torrance.

Little is known about Nigel's whereabouts the past four years, but Chick says the bird's British accent is gone and it now speaks Spanish.

It's the fifth parrot reunion facilitated by Micco, who has been running ads for her own missing bird for nine months.

 

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[Jazzy]

Four years is a long time and African Greys are very smart parrots. They learn very quickly how to speak and mimic sounds. Obviously, this parrot was in a Spanish speaking home or perhaps the people in the home listened to a Spanish radio station. Happy the parrot finally found its way back to the original owner.

 

[MrDawn]

It takes some parrots after they mature; 6 months to start learning new words. I have a parrot, blue quaker, that when they sold him to me. They told me as he matures that it will take 6 months for him to start forming a vocabulary of his own based on what I say around him. That and he imitates sounds he hears from television, music and other birds.

 

[Nebulous]

African Greys are very smart parrots.

I heard they are THE smartest parrot?