He was unable to speak, while he trained his blue-and-yellow macaw, voiced by Christopher S. Capp, to use a large number of phrases to essentially speak for him (such as 'Wind in the sails' apparently meaning 'Yes'), although nobody has been able to figure out how he did this. He is hired by Jack and Gibbs in "The Curse of the Black Pearl" to retrieve "Black Pearl" from Barbossa. He returns in the two sequels, loyally serving Jack. At the climax of the third film, he leaves Tortuga on "Black Pearl", now commandeered by Barbossa. Cotton's parrot, along with Jack the Monkey