behavior changes

Hello, I have a male red-bellied parrot that's 2.5 years old, and we have taken notice of his behavior change every time we return from a short vacation (3 to 5 days). When he was younger, we would bring him to a birdie hotel thinking company of other birds and socialization with human...

Hey all, Never been here as not historically a parrot owner. But recently I moved in with my girlfriend who has a Sun Conure back in April. He was totally fine and friendly with me for the majority of the last few months, would sit on my shoulder, step up and enthusiastically take treats hand...

Hi everyone! This is my first post, hope you guys can help me out. :51: I own two lovebirds. Rocky has always been at the top of the pecking order. Paapi below or equal too him. The last few days I’ve noticed both of them rubbing their beak on the cage bars and chewing them as if wanting to...

Hello everyone! I have two cockatiels, Cheeky (almost 5 y.o.) :yellow1: and Mango (almost a year old) :grey: Both are males. Cheeky was my first pet; I got him when he was 3 m.o., and back then I used to spend the entire day with him on my shoulder, so he got extremely attached to me. He learnt...

Hii, so I have a 3 yo BFA, bonded to me since I got her as a babe. She is quite mild for an Amazon, not too aggressive or even loud. Spends a lot of her time playing upside down, hanging, or swinging in her cage and outside. However, lately, when I ask her to step up when she is on top of her...

My 13 week old pineapple conure has been acting very weird with me lately. He will climb up my arm to my shoulder, bite my ear and play with my hair but when I try to pet him he lets out these tiny screams and bites me. Hard. He didn’t do this when I first got him and we would cuddle and he...

Solly is a male, one year old in January. He was the sweetest parrot ever. He never bit someone before. But in August, my brother came to visit me and it looked like he was jealous. He was attacking him for no reason. After that I went to my brothers house and it appears that Solly knew it...

hello everyone , My name is Irving and my girlfriend and I adopted a 12 year old cockatoo nearly a year ago. Up until about 3 months ago she was practically the perfect bird , give or take some property destruction and a little screaming she instantly took to both of us and even interacted with...

Greetings, I am calling out to all who are experienced Too human flock mates...I have had my U2 (Sheba) for only a month. I am her 3rd home in a short amount of time. Her first home was a very unhealthy environment and none of her needs were being met, so the woman I adopted her from rescued her...

I have a Maroon Bellied Conure called Taz who I think is about almost 1 and a half. He use to be very friendly and would let you do pretty much anything to him and if he didn't like it he would give you a warning nip which wouldn't hurt t all. but in the last few months he has gotten less...

Hi everyone - I have always wanted a parrot, so when my daughter announced that she had volunteered our family to take the highschool biology classes ringneck parrot "Gimpy" I was pretty excited. Here's the thing, she hates most men, and me in particular. She's about eight years old and has...

My Ekkie's been acting wierd lately. I got her about 2 weeks ago, and she's starting to settle in really well. She's started talking and she's always grinding her beak and cooing. However, lately she hasn't been eating much at all, just drinking water, and when I feed her from my hand she'll...

Hello, I need some advise with one of my amazons. I have a yellow nape amazon Holly and 3 days ago she started to attack me. First time she jumped on me when I wanted to give a treat to my blue fronted amazon ( Chucky) before i gave it to her.She was outside the cage and jumped on me trying to...

I've had my Meyer, Charlie for 6 months now and he has been an absolute dream. He loves coming out of his cage and socializing and eating his favorite treat, Cheerios. However, something very odd happened yesterday. I put him back in his cage around 4pm when I left for work. I got home at 9pm...

Hey guys I've got my beautiful boy rocky who is about 8 months old, he's very well behaved and I'm looking to get him a buddy! Im thinking of getting a female conure so down the track they can breed, I am experienced in hand raising birds and I would love to do it down the track again but I...

hi all , i recently noticed some strange behaviour from my amazon parrot , the other night while he was on my shoulder he started to bite and ears and neck like he always does when he's playing and then he started moving his foot around like it was out of control lol i know it sounds funny but...

So about 3 days ago I got a hand fed, 4-5 month old, male caique, when I met him at the pet store it was love at first sight, he was such a sweet heart who would scramble to cage door to be held. Anyway he went from a sweet, outgoing little thing to not wanting to leave his cage at all, and when...

I was willed an 18 yr old blue front that has never really been handled he flirts with approching me and isn't overly agressive but is there anyyI hope of being able to handle him of not I'm still keep him weather or not because I made a commitment to him but it would be nice if I could touch...

I have a 1.5 year old Hawkhead named Ellie. I've had her since she was still all pinfeathers, and she's been great. Recently though, she started to act afraid of me. Flying away all the time, or having a panicked meltdown in her cage. It's a downward spiral right now, because I have to catch...

I bought my adorable green cheeked Conure almost a year ago and he was a hand fed super friendly little guy (or girl?)! We spend every day together for at least 2-3 hours a day cuddling and playing (he even takes naps with me!). He's not afraid of hands, fingers, being petted or really anything...