Do budgies need to open their beaks to tweet? This questions been bothering me ever since i noticed Blinkie preening and tweeting at the same time so i finally am bothering to ask. :glare:

:hap: You have a very good relation with Blinkie Bea. ...... I haven't got a clue !!! :glare: I don't watch george that closely.........

 

 

You know I'll have to go home and see if he or the others do this....

I would say, and it is just a guess, that it is the tongue and it's postion that makes the sound. In people it is the shape of the mouth, and the tongue, that makes sounds. Birds can't change the shape of their beaks, which suggests it is just their tongue that enables sounds. Opening the beak would probably just be for an increase in volume

What I find really amaising is that they can say the "B" sound with out lips......

 

Try that one. :glare:

It's absolutely amazing, isn't it? All 3 of my boys have had to do speech therapy (and quite extensive therapy too), so I have a really good understanding of how speech is made in humans. It's actually quite complex, and relies on the mouth, tongue, voice box, where in the mouth the sound is made, the teeth, - and that's just what I managed to pick up in visits to the therapist! To think that a bird can make those sounds with just their tongue, it spins me out!

Birds are amazing creatures, that's for sure! Some people can talk with their mouths shut, has anyone seen a comedian called Strassman? He's hilarious with all his dummy's.

Bea, mine make noise without opening their beaks too. It's normal. The sound is produced in the syrinx, which is further down the throat than our larynx is. Anatomy lesson for the day. :budgiedance:

Bea, mine make noise without opening their beaks too. It's normal. The sound is produced in the syrinx, which is further down the throat than our larynx is. Anatomy lesson for the day. :ausb:

 

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