Ugandan parrot wins talking competition

Apr 13, 2002

A UGANDAN parrot is the most talking bird in Britain’s top talking bird competition, reports Gerald Tenywa.

A UGANDAN parrot is the most talking bird in Britain’s top talking bird competition, reports Gerald Tenywa. According to a recent Guardian publication, Prudle, the African Grey parrot from Uganda, has won the title of the British Top Talking Bird at the National Exhibition of Cage and Aviary Birds. Taken to Britain by her owner, Prudle won the title for 13 years in succession.he built up a vocabulary of more than 800 words and retired undefeated in 1977.“The undisputed top talker as far as Grey parrots are concerned is Prudle, who was rescued as a chick from a nest in a felled tree in Uganda in 1958,’’ the Guardian said.according to researchers, there are more than 300 species in the psittacidae group, the parrot’s extended family, They include lovebirds, cockatoos, macaws and budgerigars. However, not all of them can mimic human speech, but they squawk.

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