As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Thursday 28 September 2017

Parrot manages to fool Amazon's Alexa and orders his own gift box without his owners knowing

African Grey Parrot Buddy mimicked his owner's voice to place the order on the internet shopping website
BY COURTNEY GREATREXMEGAN WHITE
17:28, 20 SEP 2017

A family has been left stunned when their "attention-seeking" parrot managed to order its own internet shopping after tricking Amazon's Alexa.
Corienne Pretorius was baffled after a £10 order for gift boxes arrived at her house.
The bemused mum-of-one questioned husband Jan, 45, a civil engineer, and son Jaden, eight, but quickly realised the culprit was Buddy - their African Grey Parrot.
Corienne, from Greenwich, south east London, says the cheeky bird mimics her voice, and must have activated the device's voice recognition software to place the strange order.
She said: "I couldn't believe it when I realised that it was Buddy who had used Alexa to make an Amazon order.
"None of us even knew how to use her for that.

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