aggression

I'm a new member here, and was hoping to get some advice on my one year old jenday conure. She's been a sweet girl, and pretty well behaved. However, she has recently changed her demeanor a bit. She has become slightly aggressive towards my kids, particularly my youngest, who is 11. She now...

Hi, I got a Congo African Grey last Sunday and have now had him 7 days, he's 2 years old a have had one set of previous owners who raised him from hatch. He was bonded with the husband of the couple we bought him from, he didn't like any other members of their family as they didn't socialise...

About six months ago as of today, I adopted a Port Lincoln parrot. A man on craigslist couldn't take him anymore, as the bird had attacked his girlfriend relentlessly. I was a fairly new owner at this point and had no idea what I was getting into, so I gave it a shot. What greeted me was a...

Saturday night I enter a new pet store. A cozy little reptile store where I handle a few stunning burmese pythons and chat with shop staff before closing. A nice place...for reptiles. Not for the amazon parrot shaking quietly in a corner, locked inside a little parakeet cage atop a python tank...

Hi everyone! I have had my beautiful green cheek for 5 weeks now. The first few weeks were absolutely amazing and it seemed she really loved me and we bonded well but now she seems to hate me. It has now gotten to the point where she won't even come out of the cage when I put my hand at the door...

Hello All, I have a Green Cheek Conure (Alex), who I have had for about a year and a half. He is just about 2 and a half years old, so I've had him for most of his life. He has always been a super-sweet boy to me, though he isn't a fan of other people. A few weeks ago, he stopped letting me...

Hello! I am posting on this forum because I have exhausted all sources I had available to me and finally can admit to myself that I need help. Admittedly, as a first time bird owner I have needed help from day one but I didn't understand how seriously hurt my bird had been in the past. So I am...

Im having trouble decoding my 1.5 year old male ekkies behavior towards me and my dogs lately! To me, sometimes when im sitting on the couch he will hop on my chest and flap his wings right in my face! It feels aggressive but im really not sure! In addition to this he will also... im not sure...

I have a Cinnamon Green Cheek Conure named Henry. Some days he is an absolute angel. Calm, well behaved, sweet... Other days he seems to have woken up on the wrong side of the perch and by that I mean he's extra bitey. Is there any explanation for this? There doesn't seem to be any difference...

Hey guys! So far Gilli has been doing well. He's so talkative. Still not able to handle him, I'm a little nervous to try. Any tips on that? Also, when I try and take his food bowl, he starts screaming and trying to bite and grabbing the food bowl and kinda throwing it around. Definitely gets...

Hi! I`m having some serious problems with my 2 year old female GCC :( First thing, she bites. And yeah, i know they are nippy birds, but she`s on the attack all the time when she`s out of the cage. It`s getting to the point that she will fly straight at me, trying to bite my hands, my neck...

My almost 3 year old Jenday conure Korra has been increasingly aggressive towards our male papillon. They used to get along fine, she'd even enjoy preening his ears from time to time. He's a very good dog, so I used to allow it only if I was right beside them keeping an eye on things...

Hello all, I tried to search for answers to my questions but couldn't find any direct questions like mine. So mine may be variations of others. I have 3 short questions. 1. My senegal does not like to be put back in his cage; he will try to bite if I attempt to get him off the top of his cage...

So I've had MICKEY for a couple months now and we're just now starting to form a bond. He likes hanging out with me now and he's with me more than he is in his cage. While I am loving this bonding time, I'm a little concerned about him becoming a one person bird. And one challenge is that it's...

My boy is almost 1yr and had him since he was 8 wks (got from pet shop). He is very loved & free to roam the house. All of a sudden he is biting (drawing blood). Every now & again he goes mad in his cage, flapping his wings & completely drenching himself in his water bowl. This is not normal...

I was wondering if someone could help me with a problem I'm having with one of my Parrotlets. She is 2 years old and has suddenly become extremely aggressive with my other birds whenever food is involved. Even if she's not eating and another bird goes for the food dish, she will attack them...

Hello there, I'm a new user and looking for help! I recently got a sun conure from a owner that had recently gotten it from someone else. The conure was bought from the first owner as baby but never taken out not got any attention.. The owner i recently bought him from never took him out...

Hi everyone, i have come to this forum as i really need some help/ advice / reassurance... I purchased a hand reared male eclectus from a breeder. When i picked him up he would have been 4 months old. He (Juddy) seemed friendly whilst i was there although she said he was very head strong.. he...

It seems like Parry is not very interested in parrot toys, but the ones he really loves are his "fighting" toys. These are two cat toys - small colorful plastic balls with holes and a bell inside (I also used them as foraging toys sticking the treats in the holes, but now it's too easy for him)...

Hello Everyone, I have a 13 year old CAG that I adopted 6 months ago. I spent almost 3 weeks of regular visits at the adoption center getting to know him (guessing on gender) before we decided to pull the trigger. Things went OK, some days he would seem really happy to see me and other days I...

Hi there, I am looking for some help and I will be as descriptive as possible. I have been reading a lot of forum pages to see if other people have had my problem, but so far I cannot find an example that relates closely enough. I brought Aria (DNA sexed female) home in September. She is 8...

:green1: I need to downshift. So I got him (gender unknown) from an exclusively bird pet store. In my opinion, looking back, I might've rushed into it. No one else in my family wanted a bird, and it was just me (I was still in middle school, and am now in high school) to take care of him...

Hi everyone, I hope someone can help with sound advice, I cannot find much about this online. My black capped conure is bonded with me (unintentional on my part) -- I know this because a vet confirmed that the aggressive showiness toward other people is a sign that he considers me his mate...

Hi, I've been looking for some help on how to get my pineapple conure to stop biting, and to hopefully get an idea of why she's biting in the first place. There was another thread about biting conures, I however feel I need to be very specific with my case, as I haven't found tips on stopping...

Hi, I've had my white fronted Amazon for about eight years now. He never bites me except in specific circumstances. Every time he gets around a new bird or even a small mammal, he gets very aggressive. I've recently moved back home to my parents who have another male Amazon. My bird, Morty...

I posted earlier about my rescued B&G, Cotton. I'm trying to help this poor boy out the best I can. So a quick review. I got him from someone with no bird experiance, he was in a tiny cage, he is supposedly 7 years old, and he plucks. Now on with his new problem. He has started attacking his...

Hey everyone, My boyfriend and I have had Loki, a pearly conure, for about 5 months now. He's always been nicer to my bf, and been kind of nippy with me. He doesn't really like to go play with toys or anything, he just hangs out on us all the time, and would just fly from one of us to the other...

I have a hypothesis that I would like to hear your thoughts on. I notice that when birds are aggressive, they are often rehomed as "breeders". After talking with a handful of breeders, I've found that the majority of their birds, particularly amazons and other large birds, were one-time pets...

So lulu seems to tolerate everyone in the house although she won't step up for anyone except me, unless she just is desperate to leave where she is (i.e. when she is on the floor or on an awkward angle on a perch). Well about an hour ago my sister (9 yrs old) and I were sitting on the floor...

Hello everyone. I'm fairly new to these forums but I thought I'd ask you guys what you think about my blue crown's (Kongo) behavior. He originally came from a home that kept him in a covered cage in a garage (in Indiana...) and the only contact he had with people was being picked up with a...

I've recently adopted an amazon parrot with some aggression issues. He is at least 14 years old and has had two owners before me. I got him from someone that kept him at a dog grooming shop as a sort of entertainment for her customers. At the shop there is always some sort of commotion going...

About a week ago my female ekkie started becoming very cage aggressive, and refuses to come out for me. Whenever I approach her cage, she leaps onto the food bowl in the back corner and crouches down into attack mode. ): She usually comes right out for me, or if she doesn't want to she just...

My cockatiel loves paper for some reason and i dont know why. he talks and whistles to it and he gets real aggressive if i take it away. anyone know why? ___________________ -sammybird :yellow1:

Hi, I'm new here, I had to register because I can't handle my parrot's behaviour anymore. Also, english is not my native language and I'm sorry for all my mistakes. So, I have two conures, one is 3 years old, second about 1 year old. They're together a year, both of them are hand-feeded, but...

our first month and a half or so with crowley has been a blast. we finally took him in for his first vet visit, and he's totally normal and healthy, i got him dna sexed and he's officially a male, OUR LITTLE MAN :) haha. everything has been great except for his cage aggression. he's totally...

I've posted on the cockatoo thread about Gwynn, so a quick read there will give background - he's had a bad time, I haven't had him long and I'm still finding out why he's been through so many people in a short space of time. This evening things were going really well. He was flying from the...

Hi Any help would be greatly appreciated! I have a female Green Cheek that is just about to turn 2 years old. She was hand raised in by a family (that are breeders). She has been great up until about 6 weeks ago, she has suddenly decided she HATES my hands. I will try not to get long winded...

Ok so about a month ago my male eclectus has started exhibiting aggression towards my mother. I do not live in the house, however plan to take him when I no longer live in an apartment (mine doesn't allow birds). Because Ive had him so long, he is very bonded to me. It started with food...

So I have a lovebird that I acquired about a month ago from an animal rescue. He had been living there about 4 or 5 years. I named him/her Sunny. He had a happy hut he had shredded into almost a hammock, it was so bad. It was sort of his security blanket though, so I got rid of that one and...