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My Sennie Max is 17 months old and is developing a vocabulary and a library of sound effects. We play the towel game with him and a "peek-a-bird" game where we put him on our bed and he bends and stretches to look through the footboard slats to find us. So now he shouts "Peek-a-bird!" when he wants his cage uncovered in the morning or when he just wants to play the game. He says, "Hey there. pretty birdie!" "Pretty bird!" and makes kissy noises when he wants to cuddle. He also does an evil laugh, "Heh-heh-heh-heh!" and talks like Donald Duck, which is basically unintelligible but a scream to listen to. He does the microwave beep, the cat, a duck, a chicken clucking, a space gun, a siren and a bomb dropping. Most of this he has learned because of repetition--a LOT of it! He seems to be most attentive in the mornings after he's had his poop, a nut and a scritch. I sit at the computer and check my email and just keep talking to him the whole time, about whatever I'm doing. I notice that he clacks his beak whenever I pause, like he's trying to respond. Sometimes we hear him nattering to himself when he's in his cage or on his playtop. Soooo.. I think all it takes is some time and patience. We were told when we got him that Senegals weren't major talkers but max is coming right along and he' still young, so I have no doubt he'll continue to pick up noises and vocabulary as he matures,
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