Polly Want A Cracker . . . What’s That? You Live Where?

We all have heard about the ability of teaching a bird to say Polly Want A Cracker. However, the Nakamura family in Nagareyama, Japan (which is close to Tokyo), choose to teach their parrot, Yosuke Nakamura something more important: his name and address. After escaping from his cage, Yosuke got lost and ended up on a neighbor’s roof. The police eventually rescued the bird, but he said nothing. It was not until he was transferred to a veterinary hospital did he start spilling his beans. So the police were able to track down Yosuke’s owners and returned him home. In addition to telling the hospital staff his address, he also sang songs and entertained the staff.

After hearing this, I was wondering, if you had a bird, what would you teach it? The street address is a smart thing to teach the bird, however what if you moved? If you were going to teach your bird a song, what song would you teach? I would probably want to teach my parrot a Jimmy Buffet song.