Word: budgerigar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...owner of the famous talking budgerigar, Blue Boy, my attention was naturally arrested by your Bill and Coo Cinema review [TIME, April...
...speak of these remarkable birds as "midget parrots." They are, of course, of the parrot family, but their correct name is shell parakeet or budgerigar . . . These remarkable birds . . . can not only be trained to act but to talk as well. My bird, Blue Boy, has a vocabulary of over 400 words which have been distinctly understood by many of his visitors...