Feeding Behavior?

[QuackQuack]

In our Nanday, I have observed a very strange behavior (I think). When he's eating he doesn't sit at the dish and eat like our Green Cheek Conure. He will climb down from the very top of his cage to the bowl pick out one thing and then carry it outside of the cage on the very top and eat. This eating takes 15-30 seconds, and then he returns to the dish for another single piece. It seems like a lot of work just to get a little eating. We were joking last night he is burning off every piece he eats just by climbing back and forth! Why is he doing this?

Also, as an afterthought, I think he is oinking quietly when he eats....

 

[_Temptations_]

Almost all my parrots do the same. I think it's because the higher they are, the safer they feel. Even if they are comfortable if their homes and know there is no danger, it is their instinct to sleep/eat at the highest point.