Getting over excited or over paranoic about the window?

[nightinday]

So my bird was calm and quiet but few days ago in the morning and during half of the day she is just a loud monster. When I move my blinds up she is going crazy. Running in her cage back and forth but always standing the closest to windows and scream. She can do that all morning. She was always hyper in the morning, I thought that maybe she is just scared of the new environment - she is here only for 10 days. But now she is screaming longer and lon ger. I've moticed that it was that bad after I've started letting her out of her cage. She was really interested in window and in birds outside. Could it be that she is protecting her territory? Or maybe she is just scared? What could I do? I love her but her screaming sometimes make my ears hurt

 

[friedsoup]

Move her cage away from the window for a start, see if that helps. When my bird makes a call that I don't like I reply with a monotone whistle (just a single note) and ignore anything else he does turn my back walk away but each time he makes the bad sound I reply with the single note even from another room or with my back turned until he makes the good call then I make a big fuss and praise my bird for the good sound, he will soon associate the good sound with praise and attention and the bad sound with being ignored it should reduce the amount of time he makes the unwanted sounds. Hope this helps.

 

[DebsFlock]

How close is the cage to the window? I agree that moving it further away is a good thing to start with. Adjacent to a window or in front of it may make the bird feel exposed and endangered. They may like to have play time near a window, but the cage should be a few feet away. If you can't do that, you might want to put up cardboard or something like that.

A lot of activity can also get a reaction -- on gardening day, I keep the blinds partly closed.

 

[nightinday]

The cage is not really close to the window but she can see it. When she is out she often sits on the windowsill which is rather big so she plays there sometimes. I don't really know if it is because of the window or maybe she just screams. Sometimes, during the day she gets really noisy. But always looks out there so I've figured out that maybe it is because of the window. I don't really know now what does she want from me

 

[ruffledfeathers]

i never had a GC conure but my sun used to LOVE the window. when young, she used to make quite a bit of noise, and was always a "watchbird". (if anyone walked down my sidewalk she was ON it to let us know....and it was like a relay....Georgie squawked to let the dogs know "mailman alert" and the dogs ran to the window to bark.....this was their game!) Your bird could be getting excited and squawking at all the activity. To teach Georgie to be more quiet, i used to put her on her perch again and say "get on your perch", and i would sometimes cover the side of her cage to block the view of 'activity'. Eventually she got more quiet....but she always did like giving us the "someone's coming up the front steps" squawk....every day of her life!

 

[DebsFlock]

She may want attention. If you got to check on her, or even yell at her and tell her to shut up, she gets it... if that's the dynamic, you'll need to put on your earplugs, hunker down and steadfastly refuse to respond to any noise you don't find appealing until she gives up, which could take a good long time. You can also try to encourage calls you do like by making a point of giving attention when she makes those.

That's if the outside activity is NOT the driving factor. But the most common cause of screaming is attention seeking because it works very well. Even my husband, who knows better, sometimes gives in to the urge to yell back, "What't the matter with you?!"

 

[SweetPeasFriend]

I find that if a bird is scared it tries to get away as fast as possible, so it could be for attention or for fun.

I know that the blue jays in my parents back yard started to give out some blue crown conure calls when they noticed Sweet Pea. I assume that went both ways. They would fly by the window and check him out, but not stay long enough to act threateningly. I think the outside birds were frightened of him!

I notice that he has noisy times of day. Often it's when the sun is going down. I am not sure how they are in the wild, but if they flock together and roost, that would make sense.

We do give attention to screaming, but try to replace that screaming with talking. Lately, he mostly goes through his vocabulary instead of just calling everyday at those noisy times.

 

[nightinday]

Thank you all for your advices.
I'm trying to leae the room as soon as she starts her yelling serie and today she started it later. It's always time between 10 am-3 pm, after this time she is playing quietly, wants to cuddle and stuff. In the evening she is an angel, quiet and sweet but mornings are sometimes a horror for her and for us. Today she was sitting with me, then went to the window and this was the moment when yelling started so I've put her back to her cage and leave. But she is still screaming.