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"Here's a new word for you: psittalinguist, a person who interprets the speech of budgies. What's that you say? Budgies don't speak? Wrong again... According to Ryan Reynolds, founder of The Budgie Research Group, his late budgie Victor had a vocabulary of 1,000 words. Since Victor's death in 1999, Reynolds has spent thousands of hours slowing down and decontructing recordings of talking budgies and attracted over 1,000 psittalinguist researchers from across the world to his strange pursuit. "I don't claim to be 100 per cent accurate, but other people do hear what I hear. It's not my imagination," Reynolds says. Most surprising of all, budgies aren't content with idle chit-chat either, but spend their time talking about deep philosophical issues and even make predictions about the future. "This is going to sound crazy, but they talk about spiritual things: God, the afterlife, a better world for them," said Reynolds, who claimed that his budgie Victor predicted the tsunami in Asia and also warned of a coming super-volcano. Victor also told Ryan that God was coming to take him away just a few weeks before his death. Reynolds has posted extensive budgie recordings at the website ParrotResearch.com and is writing a book about his experiences, tentatively titled "The Prophecies of Parrots: The Story of Victor the Budgie."