The parrots having human-like conversations
Margherita Bassi
created: Feb. 20, 2026, 3 p.m. | updated: Feb. 23, 2026, 1:21 a.m.
“Thus, I have been using yellow-naped amazons as a model to study complex parrot vocal signals in the wild.
The warble duets, which I researched for this study, are their most complex signal,” Dahlin tells Popular Science.
Yellow-naped amazons (Amazona auropalliata) are highly social yellow-green parrots found in Central America.
The team studied the duets with a text-analysis software called Voyant and found that the yellow-naped amazons’ duets have 36 call types, making up a large lexicon, or vocabulary.
“It is vital that yellow-naped amazons are allowed to breed in peace, that people appreciate them in their natural environment, and not try to capture them for pets.”
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