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First talking pet budgerigar

First talking pet budgerigar
Who
Unnamed specimen owned by Thomas Watling
What
First
Where
Australia
When
1788
The first known example of a talking pet budgerigar Melopsittacus undulatus is a specimen (name unknown) owned by Thomas Watling, an English convict who settled in Australia in 1788 after being transported to New South Wales as punishment for his crimes as a banknote counterfeiter in London. He taught his pet budgerigar to say: "How do you do, Dr White?", in homage to convict colony physician and keen naturalist Dr James White, to whom Watling (by now a very accomplished wildife and landscape artist) was appointed as his assistant.