Famous swearing parrots living high life near Skegness

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Lincolnshire Wildlife Park's famous swearing parrots are living the high life in a new aviary. It's all part of a cunning plan by the park keepers to curb their swearing habbit. We visited the park near the coast at Friskney to find out more.

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00:00 Blinkertshire Wildlife Park's famous swearing parrots which have been in isolation are now

00:06 living the high life in a new aviary with their well-behaved pals. It's all part of a cunning

00:12 plot to stop them swearing. Now Steve you've come up with a new idea to sort out your naughty

00:22 swearing parrot. How's that working out for you? It's early days but so far so good because

00:29 basically the animals are very distracted now so the parrots are trying to work out where they are

00:34 in their new houses and everything seems to be going okay. I've heard one or two swear words as

00:39 we've walked past but generally I seem to be hearing more of the electronic noises like

00:44 microwaves and gaming machines and things like that so that's what we're hoping for. We're hoping

00:49 that the apes learn the 90 tools good language and not the other way around. Well they certainly

00:55 sound happy. So how many parrots have you got in there? In there there's a hundred parrots on one

01:02 side and 92 parrots on the other side and there's still much more room to get many in but it's nice

01:09 and comfortable where they are now so we don't we don't anticipate putting any more in there. So how

01:13 many of them had been in isolation and for how long? It varied, there was an initial five who

01:21 came swearing first and they went backwards and forwards to try to distract them and then from

01:26 there we had another three come so we said right let's put all eight together and we'll put them

01:31 with the 92 and that started basically last Friday so this is all early days for them. How did you

01:39 get the idea to do that? It just sent me, I mean to tell you the truth when the general public are

01:45 visiting they actually like the swearing and we walking past aves and we can actually hear people

01:50 making a few choice words to try to get the parrots to talk so the idea was as much as we

01:57 don't we try to discourage it we're not against it we just want to discourage it and parrots make

02:03 a lot of very common noises and probably the most common noise that we've seen change is for the

02:08 last 10 or 15 years every single African Grey can do a microwave noise because everybody has a

02:14 microwave however the last six months the microwave is starting to be overrode by the air fryer so the

02:21 air fryer noise that people have when they have the parrots in the kitchens they're all learning

02:25 that so when they arrive in here now they all make the same noise as an air fryer. Yeah so there's a

02:31 variety of noises, yeah I was wondering what you were meaning about microwaves and air fry noises

02:36 sort of from in there so yeah we will be listening out for that. Now we're coming up for half term,

02:45 what plans do you have for this year? Well we've got a number of plans but our main plan is to

02:51 basically where we can obviously we're a charity ourselves and we understand how hard it is for

02:56 people it's difficult for us but what we're trying to do to start the year is to give the people a

03:01 bit of a boost so all the way through February we're going to be offering free children and no

03:07 matter how many kids you want to bring just bring them if it's a single parent with 10 kids it

03:12 doesn't make no difference to us we just want to give you that little bit of a boost come and see

03:15 the swearing parrots and it's not going to cost a lot of money in February. You probably need to

03:20 sign out here please do not swear! We've actually got them being made and there's one or two dotted

03:26 out just warning saying you might need earmuffs at this one. Okay well thank you Stephen I'm

03:32 gonna love you this year. No problem thank you very much.

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