Rufus' Word List 

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(bomb falling and exploding) If I do the bomb falling whistle he will do the explosion.
(cell phone ring)
(clicks tongue)
(clucks like a chicken)
(cough, cough, cough)
(dials phone) Hello, yeah, OK, bye bye (Man's voice)
(dials phone) What's new? Mm hm, mm hm, mm hm...(Woman's voice )
(dog howling)
(dog, whines like a puppy)
(dog, barking)
(dog yapping) Little, yappy dog. This must be "Merlin".
(dove, mourning, cooing) Rufus loves animal calls.
(dove, ring necked)
(kiss sound)
(scream) woman's voice
(laugh, belly) man's voice.
(laugh, giggle)
(laugh, sigh at end)
(meows like a kitty)
(microwave beep)
(mumbling) man's voice
(peacock call)
(smoke alarm)
(squeeks, various) He loves to imitate squeeky doors and drawers.
(tunk tunk tunk tunk) This sound like knocking on a hollow metal tank.
(whew!)
(whistles for the dogs) calls in the dogs when they bark
(whistle, wolf)
Bad boy
Booooop!
Buck buck buck buck bird
Bye bye! (says when we leave the house)
C'mere
C'mere (snap snap snap snap) snapping fingers sound
C'mere, bird (when walking behind another bird
Good boy!
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Hello baby!
Hello birby! -- He gets baby and bird mixed up and it comes out birby.
Hello bird! -- He will walk up to other birds and say this.
Hello Merlin (he must have had a little dog named Merlin where he used to live. He mentions Merlin, often)
Hello!
Hey! (He once said this after getting dive bombed by a parakeet)
La la la la la la la -- Rufus like to make up his own songs.
Marco! (waiting for us to say Polo) -- Rufus likes interactive games
Merlin! No! No! No! No!
Merlin! Sit, sit, sit, sit, sit!!
No way!
No! No! No! No!
Oh
Oh, boy
Oh, yeah
Pretty bird
Pretty boy
Shhh
Sit
WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!! (This one is loud!)
What in! (He's trying to learn "What in the heck", but that's as far as he's gotten)
What!
What! What! What! What! What!
What's new, bird?
What's new?
What's that?
Whee ooooh!
Whew! (He says that when we take him out of his house to play)
Whoa!
Women!
(*** Some things that my African Grey Parrot says. Rufus is camera-shy so I haven't gotten a video of him talking yet.)