Contact call

[FutureDVM]

So I think I heard Penny's "contact call" for the first time today. She is generally a very quiet bird and only makes her little happy chattery sounds. Well, today as soon as I entered the door to my apartment building, I could hear her letting out a loud noise, which I can only assume is her contact call. I've been reading a lot about conures doing this, but up until this point I haven't heard a sound this loud from Penny.

She was probably wondering where the heck I was, since I didn't get home until several hours later than usual. Generally, I come back to my apartment after class, even if I have a meeting later in the evening. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to come back to my apartment today so she was all by herself from about 9am to 7pm. She was SO happy to see me when I got home.

Now I'm wondering if she does this all the time when I'm not home. I certainly hope not, as the walls in my building are pretty thin. Hopefully the neighbors don't start complaining...

 

[roxynoodle]

It was probably actually a greeting call. Conures do that, too, lol! I could often hear mine as soon as I pulled into the driveway. One time I heard my BC say, "Audrey!" as I went past the window where her cage was. My first couple of minutes in the house always brought on non stop greeting calls.

I still get Rowdy doing greeting calls, but Pete greets me by flapping his wings. And Merlin just gives me a cluck.

 

[lexx510]

Guava has figured out that she always gets a response when she says, "Give me kiss!" So this phrase has also became her contact call. Now if I'm home but leave her sight for a minute, she will holler "Give me kiss!" I, of course, mimic her, and we go back and forth demanding kisses until I'm in her sight again. Every now and then, she also simply "peeps" instead, which was her contact call initially. So I peep right back, too. lol.

 

[Sylver]

Halo shreiks at the top of his little lungs if I leave the room to go to the loo or similar. He doesn't do it when he sees me walk out the front door in the morning on the way to work though.

As soon as my key enters the door in the afternoon though he goes nuts, shreiking and flapping his wings, regardless if anyone else is even in the same room. It's like he recognises the sound of my key in the lock, because if my housemate opens the door, Halo doesn't make a peep until he sees me again.

 

[BillsBirds]

Birds are very responsive to sound. My wifes parakeet would go crazy when she'd hear her car pull into the driveway. Just about all my fids start calling me when they hear me get up in the morning. Even though they're still covered.

 

[Nakiska]

All our birds contact call when they hear me pull in too...as soon as I open the car door, I hear them all...AND my pigeon cooing! It's quite funny actually, with the pigeon cooing and Chicken Little screeching.

3 of our birds live in our bedroom and if my spouse is relaxing, watching TV and our birds hear my voice downstairs...they instantly start contact calling to me, then if I don't come up stairs immediately, they'll quiet down and listen and as soon as they hear me coming up the stairs they go into a flock calling frenzie!

They quiet one at a time as I address each one of them...Hello Chiquita..pretty pretty...and she's quiet..., Sucha Pretty Bird Sweet Pea so pretty....she quiets, Whatcha doing Charlie? And he almost always responds "Him a good boy??" and then he quiets and...Heyyyy Frankie! And he leans over and gives me a kissing sound.

My spouse calls me the "bird whisperer" and one evening says..."they do that EVERY TIME they hear your voice coming up the stairs"...I said "you know why don'tcha?" He said...Yes...they LOVE YOU!

Awwww......

Toni