Video Parrots that pick up sounds?

[Tinta]

We all know that parrots and talking are always brought up together and many, if not most, people ask about parrots and talking first and foremost.

But something I really love about parrots is just the silly little sounds. The cell phone rings, the microwave beeps, the running water sounds (amazing!) that are all very interesting to me.

So I was wondering...
Are there any parrots particularly good or known for such sounds? I feel like greys do it often, but I feel like I don't really see as much of it from amazons (on youtube) despite them being as good at actual speech as greys are.
I saw a chattering lory make a "drinking" sound in an empty cup a couple times, but I haven't done a great deal of research on lories and lorikeets.

Are greys the best at random noises like this?

 

[crystaljam]

I don't know if Greys are the best, but out of our Trio, Merlin certainly is the best (our Grey).

He makes most of the household sounds.

One of the funniest sound is that of a muffled dog bark - the neighbours backing onto our front lawn area have a dog that they don't bring inside when it starts to bark - so he barks at everything. Merlin sounds just like him. He also does Fynn's bark (Fynn barks when he plays inside), and the Yappy dog bark from the little one that backs onto one side of our backyard.

I'm always amazed at what he picks up

 

[cupoftea]

I know the littles aren't probably the best sound imitators but all of mine have imitated sounds My lovebird *tries* and fails to imitate a coffee maker and one of our squeaky shelf doors when it closes. They are honestly the worst sounds I've ever heard, I don't know why he chose those things. My budgies were much better at imitation than my lovebird is. One of my budgies in the past learned how to make a squirrel chattering sound and also a robin song. My one budgie, when she lived next to finches, learned how to imitate the male finches song. In fact, she rarely sang like an actual budgie, I think she thought she was a finch.

 

[GlassOnion]

Funny you like to hear household sounds! For me, that is actually what turns me off from greys. Tiels are very good mimics too.

 

[DWRVT]

My quaker mimics some of the things she hears often - such as my text message notification, sound of my phone hanging up, pouring water, squeaky basement door and microwave beeping.

 

[sunnysmom]

My tiel doesn't talk but he's good at sounds. Some of the more interesting ones are he does a great frog ribbit and recently started mimicking the crows that have moved into our neighborhood. I told him- you couldn't pick a song bird to mimic?

 

[lupe]

At one point Elvis immitated a crying puppy.. thank goodness he's over that!

 

[Yoshi]

Yoshi likes to make the keyboard clicking noise. Think she is around a lot when I'm online?

 

[Tinta]

Funny you like to hear household sounds! For me, that is actually what turns me off from greys. Tiels are very good mimics too.

Interesting!
I guess, I like the lasery sounds and trilling beeps more than a typical songbird's chirpy noises.
It does seem a little weird now that I consider it though. Haha.
Greys, cockatoos and cockatiels are sooo dusty though. I can't own them.
But oooh grey sounds.

 

[cosmolove]

Ralphie picks up noises all the time, they're so random sometimes. Like he makes a laser noise, water dripping noise, knocking, etc.