Why are parrots so strange?

[kme3388]

Yesterday I had Nico (Ekkie) outside while I was gardening. Nico can’t fly he has a broken wing. Even if he could fly he’s a stage 5 clinger. Anyways back to the experience I had. There was a bumble bee flying around that caught Nico’s eye. He jumped down, and dashed through the yard chasing it. I’ve never seen him move that fast. EVER! Why? Just why?

 

[Botsari]

One of my guys I discovered years ago loves to chase after a nutriberry like a cat if I roll it on the floor past him. He gives it a good whack first, to make sure it is down, before eating it. The speed at which he can run when he wants to - when compared to his normal slow waddle - is just mind blowing.

 

[GaleriaGila]

Parrots are nuts. They aren't even mammals. They come from eggs. They used to be dinosaurs.
They're nuts.

 

[GaleriaGila]

"People are nuts They aren't even avians. They come out of other people. They used to be moneys or maybe aliens.
They're nuts."​

 

[kme3388]

Parrots are nuts. They aren't even mammals. They come from eggs. They used to be dinosaurs.
They're nuts.

Nico did look like a lion trying to catch its prey. It was just strange because Nico waddles, and never has fast movements. Then out of the blue he turned into a road runner. Not sure what he thinks he was going to do with a bumblebee even if he did catch it.

Parrots are nuts who just randomly starts chasing bumblebees?

 

[cnyguy]

Rickeybird makes an interesting point and his views are likely shared by lots of other birds. I imagine that our parrots think that it's we humans who are nuts and they're the normal ones.

 

[kme3388]

Rickeybird makes an interesting point and his views are likely shared by lots of other birds. I imagine that our parrots think that it's we humans who are nuts and they're the normal ones.

I know, and I’m out voted in my house. It’s 3 birds vs me.

 

[Botsari]

Parrots are nuts. They aren't even mammals. They come from eggs. They used to be dinosaurs.
They're nuts.

There is probably a little bit of velociraptor still in there somewhere.

 

[GaleriaGila]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.............................................

 

[wrench13]

I know Salty usually waddles, but when we are training, and he kinda saunters around, I'll say 'run, run, run,' and he beats feet and skedaddles right along! And if we are having pizza, well you have never seen a parrot run, FAST, along a chain, down a wire and more chain, all to collect his little bite of crust.

 

[PeentPeent]

All my larger parrots are obsessed with feet and socks they def are crazy lil dudes

 

[Botsari]

All my larger parrots are obsessed with feet and socks they def are crazy lil dudes

I sometimes wonder if my birds think my head is me, and everything else like arms and feet are just the tree in which my head sits. Except my youngest bird also tries to climb my head by sticking his toe in my ear hole. He also treats my upper body like a jungle gym. Lately he has been swinging off the back of my shirt where I can’t grab him easily. You don’t really see them try to climb up other birds like they are a branch. Probably because they would get “corrected” instantly. But I guess it makes them happy, which is usually the main thing for me!

 

[GaleriaGila]

I sometimes wonder if my birds think my head is me, and everything else like arms and feet are just the tree in which my head sits. Except my youngest bird also tries to climb my head by sticking his toe in my ear hole. He also treats my upper body like a jungle gym. Lately he has been swinging off the back of my shirt where I can’t grab him easily. You don’t really see them try to climb up other birds like they are a branch. Probably because they would get “corrected” instantly. But I guess it makes them happy, which is usually the main thing for me!

I have heard this theory (the head being YOU, perched on a strange tree that has hands ad stuff) by some learned ornithologists! Makes sense!

 

[kme3388]

So, another odd experience…

I stopped at a Gyro shop to get one, and baklava. I really enjoy baklava. Nico is on my shoulder for a 4 hour car ride. He lost it when he seen the nuts in the baklava. He crawled down my shoulders to try to get to it. He snipped at me, and started screaming bloody murder. It was the end of the world! Nico can be quite the drama king, and over baklava who wants to argue with a parrot over baklava?

No he doesn’t look sorry for trying to bite me for not letting him eat baklava

 

[Botsari]

I would probably relent, especially if I was trying to drive. But my youngster Grey is so bonded to me that I can’t cook anything or open the fridge in his presence without him investigating everything I touch. If I touch an object he has ignored like it didn’t exist for months suddenly it is the only thing he wants. The second the fridge door opens he is on it ready to jump into the fridge to investigate When I make coffee with the espresso machine he edges out onto my hand to get involved with everything. The process of foaming the milk drives him into paroxysms of enthusiasm as if I was preparing the best parrot treat in the galaxy just for him. He HAS to try it, and of course I never let him. Instead of filing that experience away into the “not gonna happen” category like a less goofball parrot he becomes even more obsessed. Maybe he will mellow with age, but it is so bad that if am cooking or doing anything involved I have to close the door to the “bird room” first. Even putting dishes into the washer gets him going. But I try to remember, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, “the only thing worse that a curious parrot is a non-curious parrot”.

 

[wrench13]

OK - strange?

• Salty likes to take his Nutraberry off into a corner of his cage, the same corner every day, and eat it there.
• He climbs all the way into his cage, takes 1 and only 1 pellet, climbs to the top and eats it there.
• If he is angry at you, he turns his back to you, and if you try to go around to look at him, he just swivels his head, avoiding eye contact!
• He uses the edge of his tubular bell to give himself a good scratch.
• WHen we are trick training, and he does not want to do a given trick, he politely picks it up and hands it back to me.
• I've taken up bagpipes. Salty hates them and competes with them. Tough nuggies.

 

[OttoVonRuthless]

Rickeybird makes an interesting point and his views are likely shared by lots of other birds. I imagine that our parrots think that it's we humans who are nuts and they're the normal ones.

Otto is the normal one in our house.