Parrot owner and audio editor here.
The bird is definitely exhibiting mating behavior. The owner obviously knows this because he/she had the idea to dub in pitch-shifted porn vocalizations. You can tell from the “chorusing”, which is a common by-product of not-so-great pitch filters. Also, like other commenters said, the bird’s (a sun conure, I think) vocal tract can’t produce even the tiny amount of bass we hear in the fake audio. They have tiny little throats. The tweets in the beginning of the video are the bird’s actual voice, and exhibit basically the range of it’s voice.
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…except for African Greys. They can do a male voice… just with much less bass, but the pitch is spot-on. It’s weird what they can do.
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I meant bass, not lower pitch. Small parrots sound like a speaker with a blown main driver.
Excellent technical analysis - thanks. FWIW, it’s a Fischer’s Lovebird, and they’re not renowned mimics at any pitch.
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