New Dad with no idea!

[ShellyBorg]

OK Please lay out what she does for the day.
Is she free flighted?
Do you lock her in her cage during the day?
Are you home 24/7?
Do you use a sleep cage?
Is there any way you could provide her with a flight/aviary cage?

Some things that help with noise.
Foraging
showers
toy buckets that change out all the time. ( I keep a box of toys that I rotate through all the time. )
New cage placement. ( Is she in the center of the house? Could it be too busy or not busy enough?)
Bird Sitter DVDs (when my flock is yelling their fool heads off I can pop in the DVD and they all get vary quite while watching)

 

[Akraya]

Foraging toys/things that are easily destroyed fixed my birds screaming, they still get a bit loud if they can't see anyone but they give up after a while anyway! I'll keep an eye on this and help if I can.

 

[CarmenSwayze]

I've got a green cheek conure, Carmen who is roughly a year old and a really loveable girl who always wants to be out her cage. 2 days ago we got a Hahns Macaw from a fairly strange man and situation. Swayze is also a year old - apparently. He loves coming out his cage but doesn't really want to come near my boyfriend or I so it's luck of the draw if we can pick him up and get him back into the cage. I know he's got to learn to trust us first but any suggestions on how to go about teach trust would be so helpful. Sadly, his previous owner only fed him seeds, smooth peanut butter and satsumas in two days, he will eat from my fingers and is eating sweet corn and Harrison's high pellets but is shying away from his food bowl. Both Carmen and swayzes cages are next to each other with a suitable gap in between them. They are incredibly curious about each other but I'm very wary of introducing them too early as one bite from him could be so detrimental to her! How long do I wait and what's best when first introducing them?? I really hope we can all bond and be a happy family!! Thanks in advance for any suggestions you can make!!

 

[Ravennessa]

This may be something for you!
http://www.behaviorworks.org/files/s-files/Lee Rockx Screaming.pdf

 

[Inverse]

Guys, I am sorry for the outburst just frustrating and I wanted to scream myself.
She's flighted but after recent escapism, she is having her wings clipped.
She's in the family area but needs a bigger cage now and perhaps a lot more toys to keep her happy are required.

 

[Inverse]

And thanks for the advice guys

 

[ShellyBorg]

I am glad you are back! Please keep us in the loop how she is doing!

 

[MikeyTN]

Ok guys! For those that don't have a Lory doesn't understand the shrill noise they make regardless if they have toys to shred or not!!!! They can be noisy big time, my Malachai screeches ALL day!!!! They're like kids on sugar high since their main diet is nectar! But we're used to it by now as he is mostly quiet IF he's cuddling with me....

On Lory sites they do say they have a shrill screech so that should of been the first thing you read about before ever getting a Lory!

 

[Akraya]

My conures mimick the lories that fly past here everyday

 

[Inverse]

I am glad you are back! Please keep us in the loop how she is doing!

She's still an opinionated, moody, messy individual with no respect for authority nor any interests in her studies. She also appears to be gaining a much more interesting and colourful lexicon.
To be fair, I'm just at the end of a very long and busy season here so although she's not been neglected, she's certainly not received all the attention she should have.
I'm having issues with training her. She doesn't dig the clicker and I'm having troubles finding a motivator for her.
She's a lot more interesting when she's in her cage as well unfortunately, she talks and responds to things, plays and is generally a fun bird. If I let her out, she just flies to my shoulder and sits there pretty much silently. Not much interaction at all and this isn't behaviour I want.
Time to read up.

 

[Inverse]

So, after writing that post I decided to try the clicker and stick whilst she was in her cage.
Saw her keep pushing one of her toys with her beak as she say there preening herself, got the timing right just before she went to touch it and said "touch your ball".
She did, I clicked and rewarded then she spent another 20 minutes chasing a chopstick around her cage.
Result!

 

[MonicaMc]

Awesome!!! Well done on figuring out how to work with your lorikeet! I hope you continue having great success with her!

 

[LoryLover]

Ok guys! For those that don't have a Lory doesn't understand the shrill noise they make regardless if they have toys to shred or not!!!! They can be noisy big time, my Malachai screeches ALL day!!!! They're like kids on sugar high since their main diet is nectar! But we're used to it by now as he is mostly quiet IF he's cuddling with me....

On Lory sites they do say they have a shrill screech so that should of been the first thing you read about before ever getting a Lory!

I've had two lories (one at a time). Our first lory was a moluccan red lory and he was 5 months old when we bought him from a bird pet shop owned by the breeder. There were other types of birds in the shop and Woody had learned all sorts of screeching by the time we brought him home when he was 5 months old. He didn't like being in his cage unless it was nighttime and he was going to bed. So he would screech up a storm if we were home in the daytime and he was in his cage.

Our second lory is a chattering lory. She came to us as a 6 week old baby, never having spent time in a pet shop. She never screeches. We've had her for going on 17 years now. However, we have seen wild chatterings in person and they do have that shrill noise they make. We are so thankful that Sweet Pea just talks and makes sweet sounding noises.

 

[LoryLover]

I am glad you are back! Please keep us in the loop how she is doing!

She's still an opinionated, moody, messy individual with no respect for authority nor any interests in her studies. She also appears to be gaining a much more interesting and colourful lexicon.
To be fair, I'm just at the end of a very long and busy season here so although she's not been neglected, she's certainly not received all the attention she should have.
I'm having issues with training her. She doesn't dig the clicker and I'm having troubles finding a motivator for her.
She's a lot more interesting when she's in her cage as well unfortunately, she talks and responds to things, plays and is generally a fun bird. If I let her out, she just flies to my shoulder and sits there pretty much silently. Not much interaction at all and this isn't behaviour I want.
Time to read up.

Lories have a very confident personality... they know what they want and don't want, and will let you know in a heartbeat! However, they are very social and love a willing playmate! What I've found that works well with our lory and the lory we had many years ago, is to be as silly and playful as you can be and that will quickly endear you to them.

Also, find out what they love the most, toy-wise. Then interactively play with them a LOT with that toy.

For example, our chattering loves hacky sacks (the type with a knitted covering). So we play fetch with her with the hacky sacks, a game she loves ... we toss it out on the floor, she races over to it and tosses it back to us, and on and on the game goes. I will also hold her in one hand with her wings free and hold a hacky sack in my other hand and I'll spin myself around and around, holding the hacky sack just inches from her face and she will be flapping her wings like she is flying after it trying to catch it.

During these play sessions, make as much "happy" noise as you can... they LOVE it!! Imagine yourself giggling with joy as you play with a 2 year old child... do the same with your lory. Lories, like all parrots, sense our attitudes and moods, and they react accordingly. If they sense somberness and detachment, they won't be that playful. But if love and happiness are flowing from you toward your lory, you will find yourself immersed in rewarding and totally hilarious and fun times with your lory.

 

[Birdman666]

Trick training sometimes helps with headstrong birds that love to play and interact. Trick training instills discipline.

Otherwise, I've never worked with Lories, and couldn't advise you.