Is my budgie trying to communicate with me? Or.. "smooch sound"?

Question

I've been trying to teach my budgie to speak for about a week or two. During the sessions, I would make "kissy" noises a lot, while kissing his beak lightly. Like.. "smooch!" (short and quick). Instead of learning words like "cutie!" "Romi!" He started "smooching" at me when
1. When he's hungry
2. When he wants attention
3. When I walk away from him

At first, I thought it was really cute that he's copying the smooching sound, but he does it so often that I thought something was wrong.
And then I noticed something really weird. He only makes the smoochie noise when I'm around.

I left Romi (my budgie) with my mom and my brother for a couple of days. When I came back, Romi greeting me with a lot of smoochie noises which surprised my mom and my brother. My brother teased me by saying that's the bird's way of saying "go away" since he never made that noise when I was away. I do smooch him a lot when I'm near him, but do parakeets choose and pick certain sounds for certain people???

Budgie/parakeet experts and owners, please help~

margie k · Accepted Answer

Absolutely. Your budgie loves you and is trying to communicate with you. Birds are incredibly smart. They talk and make noises at appropriate times, it's amazing. The world champion for a speaking bird is a budgie. So keep having fun and trying to teach him to talk, he may surprise you and do it, especially since he has already picked up the smooch sound. That's really neat.

Is my budgie trying to communicate with me? Or.. "smooch sound"?

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