Wild Parrots Give Their Chicks Names. A Hidden Camera Proved It

💰 Support the channel: USDT TRC20: TBebXWjFeAJHfArVsJvt8N6Yv5rvn4GXP7 On a cattle ranch in Venezuela, hidden cameras in nest boxes caught wild parrots doing something remarkable: parents give each chick its own call, and the chick keeps it for life. Wild parrots name their chicks. And across the parrot world, voices work the same way. Flocks speak in regional accents with sharp borders, newcomers learn the local dialect, and the parrot in a living room repeating its owner's words is doing exactly what its wild cousins do. This film is a short language course in three lessons. Names: the green-rumped parrotlets of Venezuela and the egg-swap experiment that proved their calls are learned. Accents: yellow-naped amazons in Costa Rica, budgies that converge on a shared call, cockatoos that taught each other to open trash bins across 44 areas of Sydney, palm cockatoos that make drumsticks, and Goffin's cockatoos that carry a set of three tools. And why parrots talk at all. Along the way: the kea, the only alpine parrot, nearly wiped out by a bounty and now known for a contagious laugh and a half-beaked bird named Bruce who preens with a pebble; macaws eating clay on the Tambopata River for salt; the kakapo, down to 51 birds in 1995 and raising a record 90 chicks in 2026; the return of the Spix's macaw to Brazil; the Carolina parakeet, America's own parrot, last seen at the Cincinnati Zoo in 1918; and the escaped parrots now living wild from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. 👍 Subscribe for a new wildlife documentary every week. #parrot #parrots #wildparrots #macaw #cockatoo #kea #kakapo #birds #wildlife #wildlifedocumentary #animalfacts #naturedocumentary #birdintelligence #animalbehavior #natureeducation