Get to Know My African Grey Cressi | What African Grey Parrots Are Like As Pets!
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MY BIRDS (Oldest to Youngest) 🐦❤
BONDI 💗 Galah | hatched 2005
CRESSI 💗 Congo African Grey | hatched 2007
BANDIT 💙 Galah | hatched 2008-2019 💔
JINX 💙 Blue Throat Macaw | hatched 2008
COMET 💙 Yellow-Dominant Camelot Macaw | hatched 2008
TUSA 💙 Blue-Green Dominant Camelot Macaw | hatched 2008
ROCKO 💙 Toco Toucan | hatched 2011
LILY & PHOEBE & DETKA 💗 Sun Conures | hatched 2011
BLUEBERRY 💙 Budgie | hatched June 2019
😍 ABOUT US 😍
BirdTricks is a husband-wife team; Dave and Jamieleigh Womach specialize in parrot training and companionship.
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My parents used to have a grey - never mimicked human speech, but it learned that my mom would come running when the phone rang, so it would mimick the phone ring sound and other household noises
How smart!
Awww 😂❤️
SMARTT
Ours always has us running to the microwave for food
200 IQ play
Cressi: Humans as pets are complicated, but some are great. This one here can scratch my head like no other. She talks a lot, but that's OK. Most of her species do, it is perfectly normal. Sometimes she suddenly makes weird sounds and scary moves, but that's not dangerous at all. 😁
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Jamie: "Cressi prefers her love and attention from Dave"
"Me too Cressi, me too"- lol that part of the video killed me. 😂
Yes, so cute! 😍
Who else thinks Cressi is so cute.
Meeeee 😍
Meh
Katie Bacchus omg yess shes my favourite😊
@@orchid7493 man i can alreay tell u watch gacha life lol
She so cute❤️💯❤️
She acts like a old lady who just can't be bothered, seems she knows better.Thank you for the informative video.
it’s so cute to see her be absolutely unbothered by everything. my budgie spooks at the randomest things, including suddenly seeing her reflection when she’s falling asleep lol
Omg that's adorably funny!
"Jamie the mood-killer" haha
I think your African Gray really loves you.☺
Yeaaaa me to man
I got my Grey, Pepper, in my 40's, planning on her being my nursing home companion (my genes will have me living well into my 90's - 100 years) I have always had dogs, birds and small parrots - a Senegal and a love bird. All wonderful pets, but my Grey is as sweet as they come except her hormones, which makes me a loyal follower of your channel - she and I are so much more content without all that business going on. She is suspicious of strangers, meaning she stops talking and stares at them. But will go to anyone if I introduce them to her. She is quite quiet and doesn't yell except when she is mimicking me. Her weird phobias still occur out of the blue, but she is easily comforted. She has never drawn blood (something you can't say about a broody love bird) and only yells and mouth me when I care for her beak and nails. She is pushing 30, content with the routines. Love to ride in the car, hates walks - too many people with hats, and loves TV time for "tickles". Her favorite word. I can't imagine life without my Grey. I felt like I lucked out with her, but my husband used to point out that I thought all of our pets were perfect, when in truth, they were not. My good friend gave me a plaque with Mark Twain's best observation: "She was not what you would call refined. Nor was she unrefined. She was the kind of person who keeps a parrot."
❤️ Pepper & You are lucky to have eachother💖
My African Grey has turned 44 years old, but he has never been keen on talking! I think it really differs per bird. However, he could whistle all day long!
Yes, he is imported and has been in our family owned store in the Netherlands for over 40 years!
@@LauWWrens Some were bred in NL even in those days, but not the numbers you see today. Glad he is still with his original family!
Have you had it the whole 44 yrs?
I love how smart they are, ours vocabulary is huge, and his scolding of our dogs is appropriate. "Knock it off" when they bark to much. I love their contentment to be just by you, not flying all over. I love that he wakes up talking a mile a minute, putting words together to make new phrases, "Ho Ho Ho Merry Christbird" He always makes me laugh.
Oh I miss Bandit so much ❤️
I was so surprised how quiet she is! She didn’t do any bird babbling at all that I noticed. She really was chill for this video. I thought it was adorable how she was loving all the scritches you were giving her while talking. 💘🦜
lol Cressi reminds me of the ‘Classy Matriarch’, the one who can maintain her composure no matter who is annoying her. You know she’s annoyed, but she stays cool and collected. Then, when the person walks by.... ‘WHAMM!’ Right to the back of the head. Then back to the cool and composed vision of elegance. ❤️
Hi I'm a veteran and I had an African gray parrot named Buddy since he was a baby. Buddy died 2 months ago. He was my partner he made me feel happy till the day he died in my hands. I loved him very much it's nice to see your birds on your channel. THANKS
Cressi is truly adorable! It's fun to watch her interaction with you, so chill!!!
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Hahaha!!
My parrot is also a closet talker!
When I cover him at night, he is chattery...so cute!
He'll mumble himself to sleep like a sleepy toddler 🐦🤩 after he is done telling me about his day 😂, but he doesn't do it during the day when the cage is uncovered.
WOW, when I see Cressi I just cant believe that such a calm and quiet african grey exists. I used to work in a vet clinic and they have a grey, but unlike Cressi she is super loud (her name is Rori btw). At first she mimicked the sound the patients make, after a while me and my coligue started teaching her words and songs and turned out she is a quick learner. Unfotunately when you are in the same room with her she tends to mimic barking of small dogs and she does it in a very high pitch, one that makes your ears ake, and if you dont give her attention she just screams until you do.The other thing that I failed doing is socializing her. When I try to pet her she would just fluff her feathers and get very aggressive and try to bite, she lets you pet her only if she is in the mood witch is rare( and the petting is done only through the hole of the cage). When you clean her cage she tries to bite, if you try to put your hand in the cage you will get attacked( I almost succeeded in making her feel comfortable when someone is sticking his hand in her cage, but one day I opened the cage to give her a treat and she bit my finger without warning) I realized that she has potential and that she can be trained, and I wanted to take her home and get her out of the clinic, but unfortunately my boss was her owner and he was not giving her :(. Sorry for the long post, you guys are awesome!
What is a coligue?
@@gloriawright909 another employee you work with
@@bigsky445 That’s a colleague. I know it’s picky, but it’s hard to understand when there’s spell check.
Greys are my favorite parrot. For the most part, they have a calmer, more studious nature than other parrots. Slower and more deliberate as they study you carefully...
I inherited the African Grey that my parents got when I was 2. He was a bit of an asshole when I was growing up. After my dad retired he worked with him a lot and his mood is much better. When I took him to the vet when I got him and they said he was the most well behaved Grey they'd ever seen!
Its crazy how well behaved birds are when they are getting enough attention.
I've had a lot of birds over the years, from Amazon's, Cockatoo's, ringnecks, cockatiels, parakeets, and even a hawk-headed parrot. My African Gray is and always will be my favorite. She's 34 and I've had her since she was 13 weeks old. She has a great vocabulary and yes, she does have the annoying alarm call...lol...Cressi is adorable.
Great video! Ligaya and Cressi are so similar in so many ways! I heard it's a grey thing (not sure), but one of the things I love about having our grey is that she never really screams, just talks/pops/whistles/oohhhs. When I visit bird stores, I sometimes hear how loud some of the other birds can be, even smaller birds like the sun conures. Like you and Dave, I feel I lucked out. I also love how my grey can "just be" as you put it. So convenient, especially if you happen to do a lot of work from home! ❤🖤
PS - I was most surprised that she couldn't deal with dread locks! Lol!
Yeah! Good luck getting through my conure Q&A when that comes out... omg... the noise.
Cressi is gorgeous!
As an Aussie, it’s amazing to see our galahs in this show - we see them swooping around in flocks here 😀
African grays are just really cute 😜😆
Cressi is so adorable...praying i get a remote job so i can have the time to give a companion bird a good healthy life
I have since about 30 Years an African Gray as a Life time Guest. He mimics Speech, all kind of Noises, whistling and other stuff... The Bird is now about 35 Years old and is very much focused on me. His "phobia" comes from being in the City with my Dad when it was Bombed by the US (Tripoli 1986). Soon afterwards all foreigners were forced to leave the Country and so my Dad brought the Bird over to Vienna, Austria. Since that Bombing the Bird mimics the sound of a dropping Bomb and the impact. So every New Year he gets nervous when the fireworks going off but it got much better lately compared to the first years.
I love your videos and what you are doing for all those Birds. As soon as I master some personal crisis I intend to buy this Book about recipes to give my Friend a better health care.
Stay save.
All the Best!
I have a 10-year-old grey, and I feel like I lucked out with her too. She is very vocal, makes up her own songs, and is super-affectionate. She gets annoyed with her two Caique little brothers (same reasons as you described with your Conures), but she loves cockatiels. I completely agree with your recommendations: they are complex and nuanced, and I've met way too many that have not done well in captivity.
"I don't think we'd get another African Grey after Cressi."
Cressi: *looks at you* "Oh really?"
I think she's quite pleased with herself! 😂
She gets so fluyfull and lays down in my hands like a baby bird
"Is Cressi cuddly?" - "Not so much with me." Next clip: Cressi being cuddly nonstop :D
Just love this lil lady...... makes it hard not to want one because she’s so good lol. So sad that I’m allergic but maybe that’s a good thing 🤒
4:53 epic! looked so cool :D :D 20:42 - "pet me properly, huuman!"
My now deceased African Grey Yogi, loved to whistle. A neighbour had a friend that would whistle to announce his arrival. Yogi copied this & loved to repeat. We called it his counting sheep time. He also lived to impersonate fire engine/police car sirens. His favourite toy was a suspended dog choke chain which he used to lean into / rub himself against. I think he found it very relaxing as he often fell asleep like that. He wasn't a big talker, but always whistled to us in the morning if he heard us talk when we first woke up & a chirpy greeting when we walked into the room. Wish you had been around when we first got him. Here in England we could never find a decent vet which put us off getting another parrot.
I don't recall ever hearing him do the "alarm call" - his whistles were pleasant.
CAG’s are my favorite parrot because my personality is the same as Cressi ❤️
I have honestly nothing to comment....
Sending love💕💕
Oh yes, we would definitely like to see more Cressida videos. She is precious.
Love that my Grey Astrid is relatively relaxed . She does chew alot but being a carpenter door and window trim is a breeze so it doesn't really bother me . I wish everyone liked me as much as she does . What awesome birds..
She is tugging at my heart strings!! I love African greys for their laid back temperament their intelligence and their voice is so very human like!!
Cressi, so calm & comfortable with you, I much admire your honesty re birds in general, thanks.
YAY more Cressi! She's so cute and just seems so sweet!!
She is so sweet! I love that she is just beautiful.
Thanks for answering my question jamie 🦜🦜 !!
Lol @ “eff you feathers” hehehe she’s so sweet. Def lucked out 💗💗💗
Yay, I was waiting for a part II :) :)
Great video! Really enjoyed it!
Love seeing the level of contentment
Just beautiful to hear about and see the communication.
Thanks for the info! She’s beautiful and seems very happy! I’d love to see her more.😊😊
I love your two’s mellow chemistry!
Cressi is beautiful I love their red tails and the amazing wings!
I raised Congo African Grey Parrots &kept them 26 years & adore them. Of all birds they are my favorite. Their personality is very similar to my own. I am low energy, gentle. I speak softly.I got their parents & raised their babies from 9 days old, hand fed them. Don’t remember how many I raised, but initially I tried to sell them to earn some money. I kept my first one, a male, two years later had a female got attached kept her . She was very attached to me, she was very affectionate,wanted to be with me all the time. My male talked fluently in my.voice. Timy rode on my right shoulder, Moka(girl) rode on my left.
I wish I knew what I have learned since watching Bird Tricks.
I studied everything I could find prior to getting them, & still try to learn more constantly.
During all this time I have been very sick & gotten older too. I raised other smaller parrots at the same time.
Being concerned about their future I turned them over to an experienced family. Miss them every day & night.
You and Dave are so respectful of the birds' likes and dislikes such as talking for Cressi. Instead of forcing them to do what YOU want, you nurture their own preferences, which I think is true love. Stay well and HUGS from Austin, Texas.
I love African Greys I love their intellect. All parrots amaze me. My GCC is so intelligent she really amazes me and I have my own language with her too.... she also has a loud alarm call, there are certain things that set her off, like if I grab a pot out of the cupboard or wear a red towel on my head after a shower.....
"Oh Flock"? That's brilliant, looking forward to it!
The more I watch your wonderfully informative videos the more I believe that training is everything for any bird, animal so they can be their best. You and Dave are the voice of reason and I admire you for it. Thank you.
Thanks for filling us in on Crusties ways.
Yes more of her she's great
God, I absolutely love this channel!! Thank you so much for sharing, I've started to binge watch all your videos lol. Their just fascinating 😍
Thanks for the video! I loved watching it😊 Cressi was so cute throughout the whole video! Also I love her head tilt at 16:51🥰 I love it when she gets all fluffy for head scratches❤️ my favourite thing about African greys is probably their amazing vocal chords and ability to mimic so many things, I also love how they just chill with people😆 I was most surprised at the fact that they are hard to see when they are free flying😮 I’d love more Cressi videos💗
She's so beautiful! And I love how chill she is -my kind of bird! 😍 Yes I would love more videos with her, she's awesome!!!💕
My African Gray is like Cressi too except minus the alarm call. I try to get her to whistle and talk more but she is content to just have me around her and be in each others company.
She seems like a sweet calm bird I guess she loves and trust you!! Pretty awesome
Cressida is adorable, so chill! I love how well the African Greys USUALLY talk. I just learned that they don’t always talk.
I think you lucked out because of your awesome training.
Great Video!!!
Thank you both!!!
soft and very gentle
We have our home visit for becoming foster parronts on Friday! Very excited!
I dont usually comment on youtube but really enjoy your videos.. especially the lack of BS.. and I never thought id relate to a bird so much!!! They have such intense personalities!! Fair play to you and your husband!! Doing great work!
Our baby grey prefers my husband too but I love that she talks in my voice which I love so much❤️ We cannot imagine our life without her.
What a fabulous education I receive from you. Respect. An expat in the U.K.
I have a African gray and my fav thing about her is all the funny things she says and her little dances😂
Wow. I have a Grey that I have had for 23 years, and I have never seen her react to anything the way she just did to Cressi's alarm call at 12:50. Plus my Grey has never made that alarm call.
P.S. In my opinion you didn't "get lucky" with Cressi, you just raised her well.
@@thepissoff10 I agree.
I had never heard my bird make an alarm call, either; So when at about 20 years in, I thought it was just him mimicking the smoke alarm. He makes a different call, when he sees new people outside the house (any type of delivery man generates a 'pizza pizza', as I taught him the Little Ceasar's pizza call). He's 30 now, learned a ton of words in the first five years or so of his life, from all members of the family, including dogs, cats, and outdoor birds (including, a mockingbird who lived outside his window. He would go on to learn all sorts of birdcalls fro the mockinbird, and then a crow appeared, and I would have three birds all chattering to each other in bird languages which weren't native to any of them). I will still occasionally hear words spoken in the voices of people long dead; it's eerie. Oddly, he never made any sounds mimicking our other parrots (lovebirds, cockatiels, and pionus). We got him as a baby, just a week after being weaned. I had gone to the store for a cockatiel, but they didn't have any. However, they did have three baby grays; the first two weren't interested in me, but this guy slowly climbed out of his cage, and walked right onto my hand and then sat himself on my forearm; I was 'sold'. I was now his 'human', for only $1300. That was in February, 1990.
I know that I lucked out; he's affectionate, rarely ever nips at me, just displays his reluctance to do something by just not doing it, and I understand. He only drew blood from me once, when his leg was caught in a string from a rope toy and he panicked so that was sort of understandable. Eats everything (except red or purple grapes and blueberries). Doesn't chew any of the furniture or woodwork, but that may be because he grew up in a house with all hardwood, so I think he just doesn't know that the current home is softwood, and hasn't touched it, ever. I guess the biggest thing, is that he will poop on command, as well as sometimes say it when he does it on his own.
That's my boy.
same here mine got startled by that alarm call and flew 6 inches she cant fly as she's still growing the feathers back wont be long till she is flying again
@@d.e.b.b5788 I love this story, thank you.
What a sweet little cuddly girl,she was in this! And would love to see the whistle thing that her and Dave do,that sounds pretty cool.
I would love to see more of Cressi❤❤
Looking forward to watching sunny progress
I love Cressy and would love to see more of her. I have an African grey so I watch your video to help us. My Alfie isn't the friendliest and often bites. Xx
I have a year old African Grey Timneh., Abbey. She’s such a cuddler! She loves hanging out with my friends. Take her everywhere. Your videos help so much...thank you!
You have an amazing bond regardless how much she loves Dave.
I'd love to see Cressi more!
I don't know about African Gray's but I love your videos and you. I have birds so I'm learning! Thank you!
My sister really really loves parrots,and even has her own Quaker, and I live the bird that bobs around her room and I’m trying to figure out if when I’m older I want a bird myself and your channel has really been this huge help with me knowing the facts and talking about not just the good stuff you just give us all the information and that just really helps me so much
Cressi is my spirit animal!
Thank you so much for the educational video! I love these videos where you're just chilling and chatting about your parrots. Lowkey, pretended we were Facetiming and at the end you were talking me out of wanting an Amazon. (I apologize if that weirds you out lol oops..)
That part when cressi lower her head slowly for a pet made me laugh
I love greys! They are so cute! I love their red tails! Also your outfit is so cute in this video! I love your overalls and hair! Cressi is so well behaved! I really want to spend some time with parrots at my local bird store but I can't because of Covid....
Cressi is gordeous!!!!!! She seems abit timid, not very scandalous, and very attent to her owner, who is one of the BEST teachers on How To Treat&Keep A Bird!! Fantastic😍🙏🕉️
I’m so glad you posted this. I adopted a family members African Grey 2 weeks ago (after the family member passed ) and he’s about 20 years old. He’s starting to trust me and I let him perch on my knee, but when I let him on my arm/hand, and he touches my skin, he’s instantly hormonal! Even when I give him a treat or talk to him sometimes he’s hormonal. I only pet his head/neck too (that is, when he allows it). I feel bad because I don’t want to “ignore” him when we are still gaining trust with one another, but nothing distracts him when he’s in his mood. It’s hard to even get him to step up anywhere else when he’s like that, but I’m still super new to this so I probably don’t recognize soon enough that he’s getting hormonal. It makes me feel better though knowing even your African Grey gets super hormonal around you and you’ve discovered how to “untrigger” it. Thanks so much for all of your videos. You’ve been one of my primary resources (I knew nothing before adopting my bird) and you’re making my parrots transition so much easier by sharing your knowledge.
My favorite thing about grey’s is how generally chill the species is.
Cressi sounds like me! haha! She likes her alone/quiet time. I totally relate to her lol. 😊💋🕊🇦🇺
I think Cressi is adorable❤
Thank you for making another amazing video on African Greys! I love this species so much, I think I like how aware they are of their surroundings at all times. They are generally phobic like you said and I can relate to that so hard. Life is scary as well as some people. The greys have some of the most obnoxious alarm calls though. Oh my goodness. Kills your ears. It’s interesting that Cressi does as well even though she seems so quiet.
Also, I think it’s really cool that you feel so close to macaws. I don’t know how you do it. They are so big with huge beaks and the dinosaur noises freak me out a bit. I think it takes a larger than life personality to hold their own with macaws, and a lot of confidence. That’s clearly you and Dave for sure.
Im in love w an African Grey!!!!! He's only 13years, and has lost almost all feathers, though the owner keeps his cage clean. But I love him so much!!!!! African Grey😍🙏🌻🍀in my house, if I get to buy it, he shall be able to fly free, and I'll learn alot, from You, ofcourse, and both of us will be happy! (Let My Wish Come True🙏🌻🍀🌿) Thanks for your splendid work, Familly!! (&YES, CRESSI SI CUTE!! 😍💖🐦🎶🕉️)
Just remember if almost all his feathers are gone it doesn't have anything to do with the cage being clean. It can be stress, behavioural and much more. It's hard work to keep a bird from plucking (self-mutilating). Really hard work and it doesn't always turnaround. Just some advice so you can make a good decision if you are ready to care for the bird. Hope this helped some.
@@Neverending1 The owners don't want to sell it to me. Everyday. I can talk with him from the street .., but the bird is for their son.
@@Neverending1 But thank you very much for answering, Renee. I am so sad because it never is allowed to go out of the birdcage.
Cressi is like "Human, your scare tactics are not going to work. They are annoying at best." Lol... I love watching your videos. When Dx, my cockatiel, is near me watching and noticed your birds, he perks up. It's so funny to see him do that.
Watching videos with Cressi is like a vacation to me ❤️ My grey must think he's a galah cos he absolutely has to do something every second of is existence... which is great for training :) Sittin' and chillin' is just not his thing.
I loved this second video of cressida. I am surprised you didnt reccomend grey's as a preferred birds since she is so sweet and easy going. I would love to see her and the macaws in more videos please.....
Cressi is such a beautiful and healthy Grey, definitely looking her optimum! Cressi seems to really enjoy her time with you, and if I didn't know how Dave found her, I would think you were the 70 and Dave was the 30, lol. Really enjoy the more relaxed video with Cressi, it's as if we are there sitting and just having a pleasant talk, but don't get me wrong, I enjoy Bubba (Jinx), and his hilarity too. Thank you!
Under cockatoos we have grays that are most surrendered at the rescue I volunteer at. I feel if you want a bird spend time at an sanctuary/rescue
I would love to see more videos of Cressi. I recently adopted a grey and would love to learn from your experience. I was lucky, too. My grey is a great bird. It took him about a month or so to get comfortable enough to share with me his vocabulary. In the beginning, while learning his "tells," he's drawn a bit of blood, but it was a great learning experience for me anyway. I have plenty of Band-Aids! My grey is super chill as well. He likes to sit on the table next to me. He's not too big on being on my shoulder. We did that once and I could tell he was not diggin' it. So, if you still have Cressi, I would love to see more videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with everybody. It's really wonderful stuff.
😀😀😀😀 She. is so chill.
Cressi is my favorite of the flock! 🥰
Watching all the videos I can take in as I plan to get a grey next week. Wish me luck.