selective contact calls

[LordTriggs]

I'm just going to keep posting random questions and thoughts about my little conure as it seems to be helping me grieve for him.

So have any of you experienced your bird only contact calling in very certain situations?

My little guy was really funny with calling for me. If I went to the bathroom whilst he was in his cage he would contact call non-stop. But if I went the same way to go out he wouldn't call.

If I went upstairs during the day and he was in his cage (during cooking or hoovering, as the hoover was a scary monster) he would call for me until I appeared (my upstairs is a balcony to the living room which is amazing for birds) then he would quieten up. But like I say if I was going out he would be silent.

Has anyone else experienced this?

 

[SailBoat]

My Amazons over the years have each used contact calls in and for different occurrences and reasons. Contact calls are yet another form of communication between each other. Most Parrots are very good at it, most Humans are not. Most Parrots are well aware of the noises that Humans make as they move about the House and also, in and out of the Home. That counts of their push to get their Humans to response at sometimes and not others. Our lack in communicating with them is one of the major sources for Screaming Response from our Parrots. They quickly figure out that we tend to show up quickly when they scream.

It is a reality that even if your Parrot is with you, they will contact call for any number of reasons. Our Amazons will activity communicate what is happening outside the home as they keep an eye on the surroundings, also what others are doing in the home. The Human that works at connecting a 'specific' contact call with a 'specific' event occurring. The Human gains greatly in what is happening around them.

I have long believed that a noisy home with tons of on-going communications is a safer /happier home than one that is lost in empty quietness.

 

[Notdumasilook]

Both my critters... Booger the SC and Cookie the BFA do the contact calls to me as well as each other... and of course I answer back. I also found that I can limit the calls if they know what to expect from me.. letting them know how long I was gonna be gone kinda. A simple "be right back" and I can leave the room with no calls from them at all. Also.. prior to going somewhere I ask them to get in their cages.. telling them Im going "bye bye"... so I can walk out the door without them calling. Their are exceptions to their reactions but its a huge difference to what it use to be.. where simply stepping out of sight would get them both going wondering where daddy was at. The more I am around these amazing lil critters the more I see just how smart they are and how much many problems people have with theirs can be solved with good communication
Don't know your story but sounds like you lost a companion. Trust me I feel for ya. My lil Booger has been in a fight for his life from ABV for well over a year now. Knowing this is a fatal disease which will take him is always on my mind and I'm constantly coming up with different things hopefully to postpone the inevitable as well as spoiling him plum rotten.