Luna's trip to the pet shop

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I took Luna to the pet shop in a transfer cage today. I wanted to see how the RLA would react to Luna.

The whole thing was a bust.:smile011: Luna was to uncomfortable in the new and strange surrounding of the store. She barely noticed the other bird.
The RLA was only interested in US. Regurgitating for us, trying to feed our fingers and following us as we walked around the pet shop.

I have the feeling that the RLA (like Bingo) sees people as flock-mates rather that other birds. To me this means if I brought her home she would not be able to bond with Luna as I would like.

On the subject of regurgitation.
I know of 2 reasons that a bird will regurgitate. Young birds will do this even though I don’t understand exactly why.

The other reason is as a sign of affection. The fact that this bird regurgitates for both my Son and I makes me think her reasons are because she is young.
I could be completely off base here. If anyone else has ideas about the reasons for regurgitation let me know.
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[ChristaNL]

I have no idea why- but handraised chicks usually (in my experience) get really confused about what species they are suposed to be and bond with the strongest.

(Esp. when taken from the nest waaaay to young or incubatorbabies, raised solo. We have laws against that now.)



2 out of my 3 birds try to feed me on a regular base (several times a day, whenever they can get at me) number 3 will badger me te regurgitate for her...
I love them to bits- but really

(all are adults btw)





Some forums here told me it's not necessarily a reproduction"thing".
(I always asumed birds only feed their partner and young.)
Appearently also sharing food between really good friends is not uncommon.
So ... bonding on a more platonic level?


I was prepared for giving scritches and a lot of cleaning up, wiping returned food off my fingers, toes and *yikes* out of my ear (Japie surprised me last week by getting creative) ... not so much!
I try to not let them get *that far, but sometimes I am not paying enough attention.


I feed them - they feed me -> parrotlogic?
(I don't know)

 

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You make good points that I had not thought of.
thanks for the info.
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[AmyMyBlueFront]

You got me Wes..Amy has never regurged for me. He will "bob" his head at times,usually when BB is close by. He also did that when Salty and his parronts visited,but he didn't regurg anything

Smokey,on the other hand,would regurg on my shoulder a lot,while making all sorts of strange gurgles and whimpers,even way into his twentys. But only when she was on my shoulder.



Jim