Bad behavior Amazon

[BirdMamaof2]

I just adopted a 22 year old Blue Front Amazon from a rescue. I’ve only had him 5 days today. My Quaker wants to be friends with him but he’s not having it and tries to hurt her. When I get her away from him he tells me I’m bad. Today he wants nothing to do with me and seems angry because I kept him from what seemed like trying to kill her yesterday. I feel or felt he had come a long way in a short time here but today it seems we are going backwards. He lunged at my face this morning, of course I backed away and told him he was being bad and said we love and not to act ugly. I know we have a long way to go because I don’t know anything about his history nor did the rescue other than he wasn’t being cared for. How do I correct his behavior towards my Quaker? I don’t want him hurting her.

 

[kme3388]

I just adopted a 22 year old Blue Front Amazon from a rescue. I’ve only had him 5 days today. My Quaker wants to be friends with him but he’s not having it and tries to hurt her. When I get her away from him he tells me I’m bad. Today he wants nothing to do with me and seems angry because I kept him from what seemed like trying to kill her yesterday. I feel or felt he had come a long way in a short time here but today it seems we are going backwards. He lunged at my face this morning, of course I backed away and told him he was being bad and said we love and not to act ugly. I know we have a long way to go because I don’t know anything about his history nor did the rescue other than he wasn’t being cared for. How do I correct his behavior towards my Quaker? I don’t want him hurting her.

I have a variety of sizes of parrots. I myself never have them out together unless they are the same species/size, and I know they are bonded. Some parrots don’t like each other, and there is nothing anyone can do about it.

There are a lot of Amazon owners that will chime in specifically for that portion of this. I’ve handled them but in a shelter setting, and briefly.