Best Talking Birds & Parrots
1. Macaw Parrot
Macaws are known for their beautiful colors, bold personalities, and advanced capabilities for mimicking human speech. Macaws are able to learn many different words, and some even seem to be able to use them in context. Like some other types of large parrots, Macaws are quite skilled at learning short phrases; some even learn to sing snippets of songs. Although their imitation ability is weak, their speaking ability is high, but it is not known exactly how much they can speak.
LENGTH: 32 inches; half the total body length is in the tail feathers
WEIGHT: 35 ounces
SPECIES: Ara ararauna
LIFESPAN: up to 50 years
VOCABULARY: 30-50 words
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: Feathers of scarlet, light blue, yellow; flight feathers of dark blue, dark red, gold, sometimes green; white skin around the eyes
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