strange behaviour

[Quantumcat]

Scarlett does these two strange things. Does anyone know what they mean?

Sometimes while in her cage she lifts her wings a little, pushes her beak against the bars and flaps a little bit. She'll often run up and down the perch she's on and then do it again. We took her to Rob Marshall a few weeks after getting her, and the bird behaviourist told us she is saying she wants to get out of the cage. But this can't be true, the cage is almost always open when she does it! And she goes in of her own accord and then does it.

Often after flying and landing on top of her cage, she looks really agitated, aggressively flaps her wings, and sort of bounces up and down a little. The first few times I was convinced she'd gotten her foot stuck in the bars and rushed over to help her, but she hadn't.

Oh and one more thing. Usually there are two or three toys hanging from string in her cage. She sometimes, on top of the cage, looks really angry at them, and with her wings raised dives at the string and tries to pull it out, and growls.

 

[Aussie Ben]

My Ekkie does something similar. As far as I can tell he does it when he is 'excited' or wants some attention. He also can get quite loud when he does it. I wrote about it here, not sure if it is what you are describing or not. He will come out though when I open the cage. http://www.parrotforums.com/general-health-care/5353-wing-flipping.html

My tiel does something that sounds more similar though. When she wants attention she runs up and down her perch leaning forward with her wings open and she chirps at me. I will go and open her huge cage door, but she wont come out. She just continues to do this behaviour. To get her out I have to convince her to come over and step up, or just use the target stick (which only takes 5 seconds lol). Once she is out she loves it, she will hang out for ages on top of her cage, fly around etc. Then she will go back in her cage, rest for a while...... and then start up again. I have a suspicion she is uncomfortable making the decision to climb out herself and feels insecure. She is relying on me to go and get her out. Does this sound similar at all?