Hahns macaw super intelligent moment

[jakrob4]

I want to know if you have ever experienced anything like this.

The other night when I came into the lounge after being in kitchen for about an hour, my 9 month old hahns macaw was already in bed. There room is connected to the lounge.
She saw me walk in, got back out of bed then flew out onto my shoulder. I thought she wanted to hang out for a bit so I took her back into the kitchen. She then quickly proceeded to say "I want kisses" followed by leaning onto my cheek and making a big kiss sound.
After I returned a kiss she then said very sternly "I want to say goodnight". I took her back into her room and she quickly flew back into her snuggle hut. I was shocked, It seems she wanted a kiss before bed and even asked for it.
She has always put herself to bed and uses these sentences daily in relevant context, just not together like that.

I couldn't work for many months so have been home the majority of the time I've had her. They have no door on there cage and are allowed a massive amount of freedom. I have done many training sessions using a model/rival technique with humans, similiar to how pepperberg trained Alex the african grey, aswell as positive reinforcement for the recall etc.
She is fully flighted can recall her from any room and she will search for me, has been outside many times including going missing for 3 hours (very risky). She's very socialised never bitten anyone loves attention. I try not to let anything hold back her confidence and happiness, and it seems to be working wonders. I'll hopefully capture some succesful naming of colours shortly as she already named a red bottlecap "red" 2 days ago. I don't do it daily as I want it to remain fun and the difficulty of the challenge can frustrate her.

I think if you give them the challenge and push it the right way they are capable of so much more than expected. There mostly limited by our expectations. Here is a video of her and my lovebird wrestling on the couch, not a feat of intelligence but pretty cute. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO4m7Mo_3BE"]Hahns Macaw and lovebird wrestling - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Jtbirds]

My harlequin macaw baby girl after she is out in bed I'll go to my bed(she is in my room)... And she sits and whispers goodnight baby, makes kisses and keeps reaping all of that until I say goodnight then she goes up to her perche and sleep. It is amazing what they understand in context. Like Mishka's story yesterday

 

[ruffledfeathers]

i definitely believe many times parrots "get" what they are saying and know how to relate things in context. oddly enough my budgie (the one budgie i had with a huge vocabulary-a total chatterbox) amazed me on a couple occasions. he knew "hungry" for when he was getting fed and he called me "mommy". one time as i was making lunch, percy flew to my shoulder and clearly said "mommy hungry" (i never said these words together before, but he clearly seemed to know what that meant.)
Your little Hahns sounds wonderful!!! That is one of the birds on my "wish list". They are really cool!

 

[goalerjones]

My Hahns tells me, "shut up" if I come to bed too noisily clear as day.

 

[Abigal7]

Thanks for sharing. That is so cute.

 

[jakrob4]

My Hahns tells me, "shut up" if I come to bed too noisily clear as day.

That would be hilarious and is definetly a feat of intelligence. Mine gets annoyed if I wake her aswell, doesn't have a word for it though just a long groaning noise. I have to be careful with telling her to shutup because she started copying. Don't know how she would figure out when to use it though

 

[Karigan]

I had 17 people over on Christmas Eve, and my poor sennie's cage is right in the living room. She usually goes to bed around 8, but by 9 she was getting grumpy, so I put the cover over her cage but left it open at the front with the door open. Soon after she climbed out and began tugging on the cover, trying to block out the light completely. I got the hint and put her to bed fully, but she would make 'peep' noises every 30 seconds to let us know she wasn't pleased with the noise. Thankfully we're a tame bunch and everyone went home soon after.

 

[josiesmom]

Oh, I totally think they know when/where to use the words they know. Josie knows everyone's name and calls us by name (I'm Mom, to her thought). She even laughs when it is appropriate or very inappropriate which then just makes it funny. We just got a puppy over the weekend and she wanted to see him so bad that she was pacing the bottom of her cage (which she has never done) and calling him over...."hey, come here". She has already started reprimanding him...."don't do that", or "stop that". I don't know how they know, but I truly believe that they do know. All of your stories sound so cute...just love the fids. : )

 

[Cami]

My cuteness quotient has been filled for today!!

 

[antoinette]

I want to know if you have ever experienced anything like this.

The other night when I came into the lounge after being in kitchen for about an hour, my 9 month old hahns macaw was already in bed. There room is connected to the lounge.
She saw me walk in, got back out of bed then flew out onto my shoulder. I thought she wanted to hang out for a bit so I took her back into the kitchen. She then quickly proceeded to say "I want kisses" followed by leaning onto my cheek and making a big kiss sound.
After I returned a kiss she then said very sternly "I want to say goodnight". I took her back into her room and she quickly flew back into her snuggle hut. I was shocked, It seems she wanted a kiss before bed and even asked for it.
She has always put herself to bed and uses these sentences daily in relevant context, just not together like that.

I couldn't work for many months so have been home the majority of the time I've had her. They have no door on there cage and are allowed a massive amount of freedom. I have done many training sessions using a model/rival technique with humans, similiar to how pepperberg trained Alex the african grey, aswell as positive reinforcement for the recall etc.
She is fully flighted can recall her from any room and she will search for me, has been outside many times including going missing for 3 hours (very risky). She's very socialised never bitten anyone loves attention. I try not to let anything hold back her confidence and happiness, and it seems to be working wonders. I'll hopefully capture some succesful naming of colours shortly as she already named a red bottlecap "red" 2 days ago. I don't do it daily as I want it to remain fun and the difficulty of the challenge can frustrate her.

I think if you give them the challenge and push it the right way they are capable of so much more than expected. There mostly limited by our expectations. Here is a video of her and my lovebird wrestling on the couch, not a feat of intelligence but pretty cute.

Birds are so intelligent, the way they are able to verbally communicate with us humans.
You doing a great job, keep it up

 

[goalerjones]

My Hahns tells me, "shut up" if I come to bed too noisily clear as day.

That would be hilarious and is definetly a feat of intelligence. Mine gets annoyed if I wake her aswell, doesn't have a word for it though just a long groaning noise. I have to be careful with telling her to shutup because she started copying. Don't know how she would figure out when to use it though

We use it when the dogs are too loud. He figured it out pretty quick.