Peter Parker (24)

Australian Shell Parakeet or Budgerigar of the early 1950s who had a vocabulary of 400 words. C. W. Bomgardner's Custom Sound Recording Studios in Evanston, IL, released a number of parakeet training records in the early 1950s that featured Peter Parker speaking. Among other things, Peter Parker could say, "Hello sweetheart, my name is Peter, my home is 1302 Asbury" (1302 Asbury Avenue is an address in Evanston, IL). These and similar parakeet records were also released by Custom Sound Studios (Evanston IL), by Custom Records (3) (Evanston, IL; River Forest, IL; or Naples, FL) and by Custom Bird Records (Boulder, CO; Naples, FL; or Portola Valley, CA)