My bird can sound like a squeaky door hinge, the dogs barking, the other birds, the phone, a sneeze, a cough and the timer on the microwave.
He's a strange one.
As for making your bird eventually say his name ... I don't know about that. I have been trying to get my bird to say, "Good Morning!" since he was a baby. I have probably said "Good Morning!" to him thousands of times. He has never even attempted to say it.
However, if it is something HE wants to say, he only has to hear it a few times. My uncle came to visit us for two days, and called my bird "Squeaky Pete" a few times, just being silly. Now my bird says this ALL the time - "Hey, what are you doing, Squeaky Pete!?" I think they learn what they like the sound of, and ignore what they don't.
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