Barbara Heidenreich with Groucho the Singing Parrot on the Tonight Show

both over the years we've had some great singing birds on the show one or two but never until now have we had the financial resources to actually have three different birds but because of number of times we've been on the end how long have it on the air and whatever ge is doing well our parent company we carry all have three and we're gonna the audience determine which of these birds is the best in the world please welcome our first bird Nikki and her trainer Nikki Gary how are you Gary this is Nikki I'm doing well this is Nikki right he's a blue fronted Amazon parrot she's 20 years old 20 yes and she was recently shipwreck shipwreck reef Rapids which is in SeaWorld San Diego see what she was shipwreck shipwreck so what happens if you go to the shipwreck she she listens to those other versions back there yep you go to the cafe she'll come over and sing to you oh I see nook in this bird flying she is totally capable of flying she has all of her feathers you can see how pretty they are on her pretty very pretty but she never likes to fly hmm not that she needs to warm up or anything does she need to warm up the birds warmer I don't know laughs at me like an idiot I don't know what come here for the best bird in the world I don't know whether why I'm not laughing cuz you're an idiot it's just that she warms up every morning by screaming really I am an idiot you're just not laughing at that love you know so she wants these screens really high really oh not necessarily two hours it depends on how cold and grumpy and oh it's for two hours yeah my neighbors know what that's like anyways now what what what song is the bird gonna say well if the Sun in the moon and the stars are all aligned yes we might have her seeing about the day oh what a beautiful dog okay okay sorry I've never seen anything like this why do parents only sing old songs why don't you sing like something from ABBA which is only 25 years of shooting why are they always old songs well she's like 20 years old 20 the person who try to have this thing was much much older than that but now what would you up thought maybe something from Queen or something Vicky are you ready are you ready you do your cat I warned you about this yeah she's been looking at me like I'm crazy oh no I'm the idiot know it hey hello you do you pat no oh good good and you call Judah attention okay Nicky now see about the day [Music] [Applause] she sounds like she has a bit of a diphthong but very good alright let's bring out our second bird who is our second bird is this some is this Pancho Pancho Pancho come out here hi Dan your name is my name is Tony you're Tony and this is this is Pancho this is Pancho a double yellow headed Amazon parrot from double yellow headed yeah he's a double yellow headed it's he's named after the yellow head yeah he only has one head that's true that's true but he's from the San Diego Wild Animal Park the bird show there explain my double headed quit sigh he was double heavy yeah it will it's okay yeah they're called a double yellow head because the whole head is yellow the whole head is yellow yeah and and it's really a name okay yeah yeah well I'm not gonna ask you to warm up cuz I look like an idiot well you know what he can actually warm up that's the beauty of he warms up yeah but he wants to greet everything he wants to greet everybody first can you say hi Pancho say hi now what do you say that softer ah good now at now he's ready to warm up now what song from the Stephen Foster collection hit okay he's gonna speak any warm-up before it leaves our because he's such a professional parts are where you will warm up warm up [Music] [Applause] are you guys married I'm just what's the song he's gonna say he's gonna sing a song that Tony Bennett made famous it's about a shitty found in Northern California Oh 1952 that would be left my heart yes yes the most recent bird song in history here we go ready Pancho it's about San Francisco I [Music] [Applause] and they try that again I [Music] oh they're just jealous [Applause] [Music] [Applause] this is Groucho grab Joe come on out here hello hey why do I think you're gonna win automatically this is Groucho that's right my name is my name's Barbara Barbara Barbara Groucho do you bird people often go out [Laughter] [Applause] grabs wears a yellow nape to Amazon parrot yep all that one headed yeah one head okay know what song just he know I'm actually grabbed her knows how to sing seven different song seven difference on any of them from the 19th century well he knows camptown races sure Yankee Doodle Dandy yeah you little man how much is that doggy look like much of the dog you know and oh ah see what you're my sunshine oh sorry what's up would you like him to sing you know what let me go to the microphone for him here man I think he's gonna sing the song of his choice you want to say dropped out how about you start with a hello oh good job okay come on try song oh yeah we heard that we heard the other is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] where is the trophy Joey bring to that trophy we will vote now to see which bird gets to me this is a trophy they've gotta gotten gotten to the World Cup but okay their choice on the trumpet that's first Ricky my applause [Music] Juancho Groucho and if your beautiful bird trophy then you are we'll be right back

Channel: Barbara Heidenreich

Views: 1,852,875

Rating: 4.6981134 out of 5

Keywords: parrot, training, singing, talking, Groucho, Barbara, Heidenreich, positive, reinforcement, tonight, show

Id: pfDFa2sQj1s

Length: 8min 35sec (515 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 21 2008