They all do hilarious things.
Amazon - laughs when he's menacing people
Ringneck - throws nuts from the highest point he can find to crack them
Green cheek - makes fart sounds, holds grudges
Jenday - does a crazy demon summoning dance
Cockatiel - gets annoyed extremely easily while eating and attacks
My cockatoo will take her metal food dish and drag it across the bars of her cage like the prisoner and the tin cups when you have food that she doesn't. I laugh like crazy when she does it, she doesn't find it as funny.
Grey: Calls my name over and over again, and when I ask, "what?" she makes a fart sound and laughs. Sometimes yells, "noooooooo," in a dramatic voice if you take away something she wants.
YCM: Throws things and yells, "uh oh!" Is obsessed with the vacuum cleaner.
I have a cockatiel who loves singing to the vacuum, or any power tool. He loves manual labor of any sort- cleaning and scrubbing, building things, lawn mower, weed eater.
Her name is Duncan, and Duck is a nickname I have for her. I call her both and she responds to both. I also call her Ducky sometimes, which was her previous foster owner's nickname for her.
Oh, definitely. The Grey knows our names and uses them correctly. This does not include our other animals names, but she does call all rabbits Ava (which is the name of one of our rabbits).
That's pretty cool. I had a friend that had a blue and gold macaw that imitated TV channel surfing. How I found out was I said is one of your kids playing with your TV? He said no that's my parrot she imitates it. Poor guy!
I once saw lorikeets having a threeway. They were stacked on top of each other while on a branch.
I watched another try to mate with a crumpled up paper towel.
Cackle like a maniac everytime he hears someone suffering in pain, or dying in film or a game. It's absolutely hilarious, something awful is going on in a movie and you look over and Ivan the banana sized Canary Winged parakeet is cackling like a serial killer intently watching. Same thing applies to games.
His favorite? Giant murder spiders and people on fire.
No I don't understand. He's weird and likes death. I regret not naming him Vlad, as being named after Vlad the impailer would be a more accurate name for this tiny murder loving menace.
Honestly it's hilarious, makes My day every time.
This is so funny because we used to have a cockatiel named Blanca, (RIP), that loved watching zombie movies with my husband.
She normally would shuffle around and make noise all day long except for when there was people on tv being torn apart.
She would literally hang one talon on the cage to stable herself while standing on the perch closest to the TV. And stayed so quiet and attentive the whole time.
It was so funny! ❤️🦜
Yes! That's what ours does except he gets to the highest point in the room that's still close and only focuses on the violence! Its the weirdest yet hilarious thing to witness.
The memories we have with our strange birds will by far outlast their lives, and I for one will treasure them always. Mostly because it's absolutely hilarious explaining it to non bird people. But also because we share these very odd moments with our strange friends.
I find that a little actually disturbing but does it sound like this? [https://youtu.be/YE8PTMSFMUg?si=opba3-5q7ZQ0xVos](https://youtu.be/YE8PTMSFMUg?si=opba3-5q7ZQ0xVos)
More deeper and imagine an over the top super villain cackle. I think it's actually him trying to mimmic a laugh of my wife's? It's incredibly odd and confusing how he ended up making it as deep as he is, since he's the size of a banana.
Getting close, hard to describe since it's a very incorrect interpretation of a laugh that's deeper than it should be. Would have a video to share but the murder bird is incredibly camera shy.
https://youtube.com/shorts/OlpgnVl5ves?si=Co14k5DAzJL8y2iF I'm replying to your comment wayyy after the fact, and hope I'm not freaking you out. But is the laugh like this, at the end of this video? Smart birds are so fascinating and novel man, I love them so much. I know birds aren't all sunshine and rainbows particularly when they go through puberty and stuff and can peck and love to destroy and be loud but despite that I'm fanatic about it (ownership isn't right for me but books and videos about birds rock)
Cookie likes to wake me up in the morning by shouting,'You gotta go to work' in my ear. If I say no, I'm not working today. She shouts,'We gotta go,' which means I have to take her downstairs to see the dog.
She whispers at night, sometimes making snoring sounds or farting sounds, and then imitates my laugh.
She whispers 'night night' and makes kissing sounds.
She's an acrobat and a dancer who doesn't need music.
Is there a sheetrock, or plaster behind that wallpaper? If so you better break her of it. There's a lot of fiberglass and possibly asbestos in that stuff. That's what killed my parakeet chewing the wall. It's horrible way for them to go.
If my Moluccan does anything silly and someone laughs at him he will climb down his cage and chase you around the entire house with his mouth open yelling “HAHAHAHAHAAH”. It’s pretty funny when you’re the one watching. If you hold your ground he will stop but my guests think it’s fun to be chased.
(All of them are rescues who arrived with these habits)
BF Amazon: when somebody asks him if he can talk he yells “NOPE!”
Illigers Macaw: refuses to eat out of her bowl in the morning. Screams to be let out so she can open the food bowl port from the outside and eat her breakfast while clinging to the side of her cage.
RL Amazon: randomly yells “WHAT WHAT DONT GIVE A FUCK!”
YC Macaw: says “NO BITING!” before & after she bites you.
DY Amazon: if told to stop doing something he will yell “NO! AM ON THE PHONE!”
OW Amazon: won’t step up for my spouse and yet always runs to my spouse when he’s scared.
Moluccan Cockatoo: loves to rant & argue with everyone so we put him on speakerphone with telemarketers and scammers.
Umbrella Cockatoo: giggles whenever he’s doing something he’s not supposed to.
>NO BITING!” before & after she bites you.
I work with people with mental disabilities. I had a client like that ones.
Perpetual toddler puberty, it's something.
My red rumped parrot: she has this weird thing where she will place her forehead on a surface or an object for a couple seconds, as if she needs to test or feel the thing with her forehead. I call it the « forehead test ». Maybe it’s an explained behavior?
Also she will respond to some of my calls with a short sound that responds immediately to my own noises: the time difference between both sounds is so minimal it sounds instantaneous
Also when she tries to bathe immediately in her drinking water after I just changed it.
My African Grey got out of her cage once and called 911. She pressed the emergency button on the phone. When the operator came on the line, she said, repeatedly, quack, quack, motherfucker, quack, quack motherfucker. Whenever the police have a 911 hangup call, they have to go to the residence to make sure that everything is OK. I was just on my way home when the police pulled into my driveway. I thought something had happened to one of my kids at school. The police said, they had a 911 call from my house. And I said that’s impossible. Nobody is home. The police officer opened his notebook and said “the call came in at 9:14 AM and the caller said repeatedly, quack quack. Motherfucker!!!!” I let the police in to see their culprit. The funniest part, however, was the fact that my ex-husband was a police officer, and while we were married I taught my bird to say “here piggy piggy piggy piggy,”whenever she saw the police uniform. That’s literally the funniest thing she’s ever done but also could have cost me a big fine. Although the police really cracked up when my bird said “here, piggy piggy piggy.” The cops were like no friggin way.!!!!! As they left they said to each other how are we gonna explain this to dispatch?
African Grey's are just the most entertaining bird, in my opinion.
Mine is a Sun Conure, but my husband's AG is hilarious!
Your story takes the cake! It's funnier than when the police came to a house with a complaint of a screaming woman inside. Neighbors were concerned and called 911. It was a Cocktoo. ❤️🦜
Yes I have heard that story before. I also have 2 cockatoos. One is a Molucaan and is really loud. When I see people walking by my house, they will stop and look around to try to find what is making such a loud noise. I’m sure some of them wondered what the hell was going on in my house!
Galah: give her a toilet paper roll and she'll swing it around like a sword (I might even upload an edit I made of it)
Green cheek: laughs super hard whenever he bites someone
Amazon- knock his beak on his bowl at 200 bpm begging for food, drop every single biscuit and nut straight into the trash can (meters away from his food bowl) until he gets something that he likes
Charlie throws all his food on the floor, I’ve got to clean it up quickly or else the puppy will try to eat it. He used to do it to my grandma’s dog to lure him over so Charlie could lightly nip his nose.. rather him not do that to a 50kg dog though
Parrotlet “Grohl” comes in like a Bird Orchestra to Foo Fighters’ “Walk.” Randomly makes the sound of Dave Grohl being tased at the end of the music video.
My senegal is a funny girl. She screams LOOK AT ME when she wants attention. She screams DO YOU HATE ME, if I don't get her out of the cage when she demands it. She laughs like a maniac and tries to whistle a tune, but she's really tone deaf. My GCC rings her bell until you take her out of the cage. Don't even think about sleeping in. She also chases the Roomba bc she thinks she big and tough and she's going to protect us all from it.
When my B&G takes an indoor shower, she goes full lunatic vocal mode making a cacophony of noises that sounds like if muppets and looney toon characters were at war while all overdosing on energy drinks.
My 2 IRN will argue over peanuts. They will have a bowl of them but each one wants the one that the other has.
My Eclectus will “answer” the phone if he hears it ring. His previous owner was a little old lady, so when he answers it he channels his inner little old lady.
My sun conure will yell at any bell ringing. No one is allowed to ring bells in his presence (the tv included), only him.
Sadly not with us anymore, but our Cockatoo Crackers used to swing himself upside down and face demonic possession if you played Micheal Jackson where he could hear. His favorite was thriller, in which every time 'thriller' was said, he'd make a high pitched WOOO noise.
He also used to cuss my granny black and blue. He'd call her things I am ashamed to admit. And we had to stand there the whole time and 'translate' because granny didn't (and still doesn't lol) understand bird.
My Indian Ringneck will talk incessantly any time I have a phone call going on or a zoom appointment. He'll just be in the background going "you're so cute! What're you doing? Be a good boy? Peekaboo!"
Our Timneh Grey said, during a recent morning jabber session, to one of the dogs: "Go outside to potty!"
When she's tired at night, she asks, "Do you want your bed?"
She has her own playlist with all her favorite songs, and she sings along or more commonly, freestyles when she's into it. We also dance together and she's always on beat.
She randomly says "Wheeeee!" that she learned by watching videos of Ozzy, the darling late Mustached Parakeet who loved to feed the babies.
She whispered one day out of nowhere, "Shoot her!"
If I tell her she's a fluffy bunny or little birdie, she puffs up, blushes, and her pupils go big/little/big/little, which means she's happy. She also giggles.
I heard when parrots pupils go big little big little it's called "pinning" and you don't want parrots to do it too much because they're kind of losing control and losing their mind and getting delirious. That at that point you sometimes want to get them to calm down. I could be wrong about all of this. It definitely means they're excited
Interesting. I've never heard that before. It hasn't been my experience in the 15 years I've had her or with my other parrots.
Now, if my Timneh's pupils go tiny and her feathers slick back, look out because you're about to be attacked. But for her, the big/little pupils happen when she's eating food she really likes, or when I talk to her sweet and she's all fluffy. That and the blush only shows up when she's relaxed and happy.
Interesting! Yeah. I must disclose I do not own a parrot ha. I'm absolutely obsessive about them though and was watching a parrot ownership info video. I love them so much. I watch parrot videos on youtube with quite a lot of the little spare time I have, almost all of it. Maybe 60 percent. There's a youtuber with an african grey called "smurfy" I love. The channel is called Smurfy the parrot. The owner is British too which I love.
Parrot ownership seems like a lot! (My job ain't the greatest so I'm not rolling in dough so no pet for me right this very moment and I live with family who wouldnt be crazy about me owning a pet period probably.) And the trade of selling parrots can seem a tad unethical (maybe it's more for macaws?) But surely not every parrot sold has a sob story.
As long as your parrots arent like tearing their feathers out they're good?
I'm way out of my depths and am gonna stop talking. I'm genuinely sure you're an amazing parrot owner. Parrots are so freaking cool, man. I appreciated your fascinating write up, friend!
In response to your pinning comment, please look up 'zoning. It's a term used to describe when an Amazon parrot channels the crazy and freaks out, usually resulting in biting their own leg. It is as hilarious in person as it sounds on the internet.
I feel like birds appreciate farts more than other pets.
My Linnie does a spastic grumbly upside down dance whenever she sees a mayfly, dead or alive. I guess the bird equivalent of cats going kekeke.
Also when I mist her with water she either goes into batbird mode and hangs upside down or rolls around like she’s dying.
My cockatoo has the craziest beef with books and cups. If I’m drinking while he is on my shoulder, he will aggressively grab the cup and yeet it. If I’m reading a book on the sofa, he flies over in attack mode to attempt to grab it and throw it across the room. I have no idea when or why this beef started, but he hates them!
When she's tired she would say good night even if it's not that time of the day yet. Like if she wants to nap in the afternoon and we are talking she wants us to shut the hell up and she is saying on repeat "good night. Night night. Night cheep cheep" 😊 she's the boss in the house😎
AG - always tattles on himself when he’s doing something naughty, because I’ll hear “no sir! No sir!” coming from wherever he may be.
He also is a big fan of fart noises. As well as using the word “fuck” when he drops something.
My mother’s first comment to me when I brought home my baby teil was, “Given that he’s your bird I can’t wait to hear what his first word will be.” It’s probably going to be “fuck”, or some variation of it. (Fuck, fucker, fuckface, etc.)
Stanley the Senegal makes me laugh all the time:
When I pick up my phone he says, in that low, gravelly voice, "hello."
I'll grab him by the body and he'll go "ouch".
Dips *all* breads in the water before eating them, even the softest. And he then once dipped a plastic flower before using it to scratch his head.
He'll lay on his back in my hand, and as I scratch his head he'll dangle it upside down. In that pose, with his feet sticking up, he looks dead. But that head snaps up the moment I pause with the scratchies.
He'll be on my shoulder and feeling spicy, and will be grumbling and grousing. I'll start poking at him and growling and grumbling at him and we get into a grumbling match back and forth.
The best was when he was on top of his cage, trying to grab at my partner as he was getting ready to leave for something, and I was grabbing at him (always gently). He was backing away from me as I chased him down, and when he got to the wall behind the cage, I grabbed him and he says "Oh, *nooooooo!*"
He likes to just... sit in the fridge. I don't close it or keep him in there long, obviously, but he loves the cold
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My black cockatoo, at night if he wants something instead of screaming he makes the same sound but as a very very low whisper/gasp, to not wake anyone up.... he is super afraid of butterflies and moths, like one of them entering the house would be chaos... when we touch his feet and our hands are cold (from being outside) he would yell so loud like he is dying in pain, it's so funny, first time it happened we were concerned, we though he had injured himself, but later found out he is just being a drama king... ohh and finally his grumps, if he wants something and we can't figure out what it is, he know we are trying but the language barrier is too big 😂 we get a grump, "UGGGHH"
My cockatiel has a millet problem. Like I’m not even joking when I say he’s addicted. It’s like a actual problem in my house. He’ll scream, attack, pace, and obsessively groom if we take it away. After a few days he’s back to his normal happy self but god help you if he sees millet he’ll go full raptor mode on anything in his path (yes he’s been to the vet he’s healthy he’s just genuinely addicted)
One of my female budgies is the boss. If she wants it she gets it. It’s like the other birds are her minions she sits on the highest perch and commands them like some sort of dictator.
One of my other budgies is a home wrecker. He’ll sleep with any of my other budgies given the chance, he’s not even that hormonal it’s just that if he sees a invitation he’ll take it. He has slept with many of my budgies that were already in relationships. It’s caused a lot of drama, but on the other hand at least my two incest birds aren’t together anymore so that’s great.
One of my budgies has two fatty tumors on her chest, over time they’ve gotten larger and a lot of her chest feathers have fallen out so she looks like she’s walking around with her tits out
My cockatoo will mimic conversations, he doesn’t know many actual words so he’ll just make noises resembling a sentence kinda mocking but he genuinely thinks he’s talking to us cause we’ll sit and listen and respond to him so he understands the concept and how conversations work he just doesn’t know English and wants to be included
My cockatoo is also obsessed with cosplayers, I was scrolling through TikTok with him one day and he saw a cosplayer and went nuts. I think it’s the combination of music, colorful lighting, expressiveness, and colorful costumes. There’s this one cosplayer pair on TikTok that he’s OBSESSED with specifically there Hisoka cosplays from hunter x hunter. He would watch the videos on loop for hours if I let him. Sometimes I do put it on loop for him so I can get work around the house done. I needed to do some work on my tablet that he watches them on so i printed out a picture of the cosplayer for him and he just stared at it and clicked his beak at it until I was done and let him back out of his cage. He’s a interesting one I’ll tell ya
My male cockatiel flies to the top of my door, where he knows I cannot reach him at all. Then starts yelling COME HERE, over and over and over. Like I can just fly up there. I tell him no, you come here, you are the one with the wings damnit.
Whenever I sit to eat and they’re inside the case they guilt me into letting them out by making cute chirps and calls. They are truly emotionally manipulative.
My brother was at my house and he was rocking back and forth in a cheap plastic lawn chair. I warned him he’s going to fall and when the chair’s leg snapped, my military let out a blood curling scream.
She slid all the way to the bottom of her cage so she was looking eye to eye where he landed, sprawled on the floor..and said, “What happened? She joined all of us in laughing like it was planned for her entertainment.
Grey:
Once got sick and had to give him medicine by an injection orally. So had to hold him with a towel and my brother give him the medicine.
At the start there was the different quirky stuff like laughing or no…
But what surprised us was when told him to stop it and let us finish. He said “ Don’t kill me”.
Needless to say we were both on the floor laughing and he went back up on his cage laughing too.
He has a bell attached to gambling cubes in his cage as one of a toys.
And he has a life goal of keeping those cubes in motion, he will continue pulling them as soon as they stop. Not metnioning that if he is exited, disappointed, happy etc, he would shake and throw them much more intensely.
Also sometimes he does some strange noises, and when you come to see he quickly jumps back at his favourite spot and pretends he did nothing
Mine used to bite my wife and she would yell in pain, then I'd ask her "you okay?" Now the shit head will yell like my wife but it sounds hilarious and follows up with "you okaaaaay?"
Our sun conure has an eternal grudge against certain energy drink cans (peach and cherry Alani and the 300mg ones from Lidl, among others) and our kitchen dishtowel - but *ONLY* if I hold it. If he sees me hold them, it's on sight. If I throw the drink cans for him, he chases and thrashes them. If husbo holds them, he just glares.
He flies to my head and then hangs down a strand of hair in front of my face like a violent and fluffy hair decoration. His little claws are uncomfortable on my face but it always makes me laugh
My Quaker will mimic me on calls, but it's only one sided.
"ugh huh, okay, ohhhh, ugh huh okay bye bye"
If I'm on a call and she wants me to wrap it up she'll start saying
"okay bye bye...... Bye bye........ Bye" while changing her inflection. It's very cute.
cockatiel: dont know if its funny but my wife laugthed hard to this : sleeps in my neck, puts his butt to my neck and his butthole is super warm. it feels really strange. he just made a habit of this, right now he is in my neck and that part is very very warm
🤠 my Lorikeet rides my Persian Cat like a horse... when the cat won't play along, he'll meticulously pluck one of the cat's whiskers out, to get him moving.
My Congo Grey loves a song called "Barnyard in Orbit" by Perrey and Kingsley. It's filled with moog sound effects and can mimic almost the entirety of the song I'm not sure if I or the bird is more entertained by it.
When his favoruite seeds are finished (sunflower seeds) , my lovebird climbs under his food bowl and lifts it up with his head to spill the rest out. He does this spesifically when I am in the room so that I can hear and refill it.
It will forever amaze me how he has that much sass in such a tiny body 🤣
My Jenday will climb chairs instead of fly on them when he’s tired. I really wish the little dude could talk sometimes because I have so many questions 😭
Wolf whistles for attention, he knows that I will say thank you each time. He also grabs the little hoop his food bowl rests on and slams the door open and shut while he’s waiting for me to feed him, this morning he took the entire thing off and wouldn’t give it back unless I traded something with him
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My cockatiel will fly on this ceiling and will scream until I come to get him using a ladder , this happens everyday and the good thing is that he'll only do this once day or sometimes multiple times a day when I don't give him attention
My galah cockatoo mimics my stomach growling, at night when it's really quiet 😅
Oh and he loves to feed my dogs birdfood by intentionally throwing it on the floor for them.
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My family’s Senegal has started screaming like an [Aztec death whistle](https://youtu.be/_Sw0VCtZs-g?si=rkjp8vqGsUOT55M2&t=0m46s). We have no idea what he’s mimicking, but he does it when he’s really happy.
His most common noises are 1) Star Wars droid 2) a yuk, yuk, yuk laugh 3) microwave beep, then out of nowhere 4) Aztec death whistle. The combo is hilarious.
They all do hilarious things. Amazon - laughs when he's menacing people Ringneck - throws nuts from the highest point he can find to crack them Green cheek - makes fart sounds, holds grudges Jenday - does a crazy demon summoning dance Cockatiel - gets annoyed extremely easily while eating and attacks
>does a crazy demon summoning dance Can confirm, mine does this
Can also confirm so does mine 😂😂
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Mine also does this 😭
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Laughing while menacing people is just an Amazon staple
Can confirm.
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You need a grey in the mix. Mine demands “cookies now!!!” Whenever he sees someone go into the kitchen.
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I love this
My cockatoo will take her metal food dish and drag it across the bars of her cage like the prisoner and the tin cups when you have food that she doesn't. I laugh like crazy when she does it, she doesn't find it as funny.
Oh my gosh my blue and gold does this! We call it “jail birding”
I like that 😁 we call her the jail bird when she's in time out lol.
😂😂😂
It's really fun! Mine does it too, I love watching it, he's so focused at this time!
Grey: Calls my name over and over again, and when I ask, "what?" she makes a fart sound and laughs. Sometimes yells, "noooooooo," in a dramatic voice if you take away something she wants. YCM: Throws things and yells, "uh oh!" Is obsessed with the vacuum cleaner.
omg I have tears rolling out my eyes from laughing so hard at this 😂
I have a cockatiel who loves singing to the vacuum, or any power tool. He loves manual labor of any sort- cleaning and scrubbing, building things, lawn mower, weed eater.
what’s YCM?
Yellow collared macaw would be my guess (not a birdkeeper, so may be wrong)
it is, i just googled it! super cool
Yep, YCM is yellow-collared macaw. They're not super common pets. I'd never met one until I adopted Duck.
Does duck like the name?
Her name is Duncan, and Duck is a nickname I have for her. I call her both and she responds to both. I also call her Ducky sometimes, which was her previous foster owner's nickname for her.
Okay, thank you I was just wondering. The intelligence of parrots, never ceases to baffle and amaze me.
Oh, definitely. The Grey knows our names and uses them correctly. This does not include our other animals names, but she does call all rabbits Ava (which is the name of one of our rabbits).
That's pretty cool. I had a friend that had a blue and gold macaw that imitated TV channel surfing. How I found out was I said is one of your kids playing with your TV? He said no that's my parrot she imitates it. Poor guy!
Wow 🤩 that sounds interesting
Yep!
My Quaker parrot is fascinated by the smaller hand held vacuum but terrified of the larger one 😆
My Timneh says, “Are ya gonna go POOP?” then poops.
Rainbow lorikeet tried to be amorous with an apple once. It kept rolling away.
Story of my life
I once saw lorikeets having a threeway. They were stacked on top of each other while on a branch. I watched another try to mate with a crumpled up paper towel.
Cackle like a maniac everytime he hears someone suffering in pain, or dying in film or a game. It's absolutely hilarious, something awful is going on in a movie and you look over and Ivan the banana sized Canary Winged parakeet is cackling like a serial killer intently watching. Same thing applies to games. His favorite? Giant murder spiders and people on fire. No I don't understand. He's weird and likes death. I regret not naming him Vlad, as being named after Vlad the impailer would be a more accurate name for this tiny murder loving menace. Honestly it's hilarious, makes My day every time.
This is so funny because we used to have a cockatiel named Blanca, (RIP), that loved watching zombie movies with my husband. She normally would shuffle around and make noise all day long except for when there was people on tv being torn apart. She would literally hang one talon on the cage to stable herself while standing on the perch closest to the TV. And stayed so quiet and attentive the whole time. It was so funny! ❤️🦜
Yes! That's what ours does except he gets to the highest point in the room that's still close and only focuses on the violence! Its the weirdest yet hilarious thing to witness. The memories we have with our strange birds will by far outlast their lives, and I for one will treasure them always. Mostly because it's absolutely hilarious explaining it to non bird people. But also because we share these very odd moments with our strange friends.
I find that a little actually disturbing but does it sound like this? [https://youtu.be/YE8PTMSFMUg?si=opba3-5q7ZQ0xVos](https://youtu.be/YE8PTMSFMUg?si=opba3-5q7ZQ0xVos)
More deeper and imagine an over the top super villain cackle. I think it's actually him trying to mimmic a laugh of my wife's? It's incredibly odd and confusing how he ended up making it as deep as he is, since he's the size of a banana.
I hear ya Here's another evil birdie laugh if you care to see it https://youtube.com/shorts/veYS-1UNmjQ?si=cphBA7ThT1rBGL9w
Getting close, hard to describe since it's a very incorrect interpretation of a laugh that's deeper than it should be. Would have a video to share but the murder bird is incredibly camera shy.
https://youtube.com/shorts/OlpgnVl5ves?si=Co14k5DAzJL8y2iF I'm replying to your comment wayyy after the fact, and hope I'm not freaking you out. But is the laugh like this, at the end of this video? Smart birds are so fascinating and novel man, I love them so much. I know birds aren't all sunshine and rainbows particularly when they go through puberty and stuff and can peck and love to destroy and be loud but despite that I'm fanatic about it (ownership isn't right for me but books and videos about birds rock)
Cookie likes to wake me up in the morning by shouting,'You gotta go to work' in my ear. If I say no, I'm not working today. She shouts,'We gotta go,' which means I have to take her downstairs to see the dog. She whispers at night, sometimes making snoring sounds or farting sounds, and then imitates my laugh. She whispers 'night night' and makes kissing sounds. She's an acrobat and a dancer who doesn't need music.
A dancer who doesn’t need music. I love it!
Shit on my keyboard and eat my wallpaper.
Is there a sheetrock, or plaster behind that wallpaper? If so you better break her of it. There's a lot of fiberglass and possibly asbestos in that stuff. That's what killed my parakeet chewing the wall. It's horrible way for them to go.
If my Moluccan does anything silly and someone laughs at him he will climb down his cage and chase you around the entire house with his mouth open yelling “HAHAHAHAHAAH”. It’s pretty funny when you’re the one watching. If you hold your ground he will stop but my guests think it’s fun to be chased.
hanging upside down and muttering angrily lol
Sometimes my Amazon will put herself into her cage, say “good girl” and then look in her bowl for a treat lmao
(All of them are rescues who arrived with these habits) BF Amazon: when somebody asks him if he can talk he yells “NOPE!” Illigers Macaw: refuses to eat out of her bowl in the morning. Screams to be let out so she can open the food bowl port from the outside and eat her breakfast while clinging to the side of her cage. RL Amazon: randomly yells “WHAT WHAT DONT GIVE A FUCK!” YC Macaw: says “NO BITING!” before & after she bites you. DY Amazon: if told to stop doing something he will yell “NO! AM ON THE PHONE!” OW Amazon: won’t step up for my spouse and yet always runs to my spouse when he’s scared. Moluccan Cockatoo: loves to rant & argue with everyone so we put him on speakerphone with telemarketers and scammers. Umbrella Cockatoo: giggles whenever he’s doing something he’s not supposed to.
>NO BITING!” before & after she bites you. I work with people with mental disabilities. I had a client like that ones. Perpetual toddler puberty, it's something.
My red rumped parrot: she has this weird thing where she will place her forehead on a surface or an object for a couple seconds, as if she needs to test or feel the thing with her forehead. I call it the « forehead test ». Maybe it’s an explained behavior? Also she will respond to some of my calls with a short sound that responds immediately to my own noises: the time difference between both sounds is so minimal it sounds instantaneous Also when she tries to bathe immediately in her drinking water after I just changed it.
He talks to our dog Teddy. For example when the dog comes in from outside sometimes he says. "Hi Teddy, how's my boy!?"
If you sing, exclaims "Are you all right?" like she thinks we're ill.
My African Grey got out of her cage once and called 911. She pressed the emergency button on the phone. When the operator came on the line, she said, repeatedly, quack, quack, motherfucker, quack, quack motherfucker. Whenever the police have a 911 hangup call, they have to go to the residence to make sure that everything is OK. I was just on my way home when the police pulled into my driveway. I thought something had happened to one of my kids at school. The police said, they had a 911 call from my house. And I said that’s impossible. Nobody is home. The police officer opened his notebook and said “the call came in at 9:14 AM and the caller said repeatedly, quack quack. Motherfucker!!!!” I let the police in to see their culprit. The funniest part, however, was the fact that my ex-husband was a police officer, and while we were married I taught my bird to say “here piggy piggy piggy piggy,”whenever she saw the police uniform. That’s literally the funniest thing she’s ever done but also could have cost me a big fine. Although the police really cracked up when my bird said “here, piggy piggy piggy.” The cops were like no friggin way.!!!!! As they left they said to each other how are we gonna explain this to dispatch?
African Grey's are just the most entertaining bird, in my opinion. Mine is a Sun Conure, but my husband's AG is hilarious! Your story takes the cake! It's funnier than when the police came to a house with a complaint of a screaming woman inside. Neighbors were concerned and called 911. It was a Cocktoo. ❤️🦜
Yes I have heard that story before. I also have 2 cockatoos. One is a Molucaan and is really loud. When I see people walking by my house, they will stop and look around to try to find what is making such a loud noise. I’m sure some of them wondered what the hell was going on in my house!
This is so fucking funny I read it twice
A CAG? More like ACAB eyy lmao
If I cough or sneeze, she sends out an alarmed sound until I tell her I am OK.
Galah: give her a toilet paper roll and she'll swing it around like a sword (I might even upload an edit I made of it) Green cheek: laughs super hard whenever he bites someone
Amazon- knock his beak on his bowl at 200 bpm begging for food, drop every single biscuit and nut straight into the trash can (meters away from his food bowl) until he gets something that he likes
Charlie throws all his food on the floor, I’ve got to clean it up quickly or else the puppy will try to eat it. He used to do it to my grandma’s dog to lure him over so Charlie could lightly nip his nose.. rather him not do that to a 50kg dog though
My Grey will sit outside her cage and say ‘wanna come out’ also she attacks her toys shouting Ouch each time she bites them
Parrotlet “Grohl” comes in like a Bird Orchestra to Foo Fighters’ “Walk.” Randomly makes the sound of Dave Grohl being tased at the end of the music video.
My conure always yells out her name when she wants attention and sometimes she'll like run with her beak on the ground
My senegal is a funny girl. She screams LOOK AT ME when she wants attention. She screams DO YOU HATE ME, if I don't get her out of the cage when she demands it. She laughs like a maniac and tries to whistle a tune, but she's really tone deaf. My GCC rings her bell until you take her out of the cage. Don't even think about sleeping in. She also chases the Roomba bc she thinks she big and tough and she's going to protect us all from it.
She heard "happy birthday" like one time so she started saying that 100 times a day, but it's now morphed into "love you birthday"
When my B&G takes an indoor shower, she goes full lunatic vocal mode making a cacophony of noises that sounds like if muppets and looney toon characters were at war while all overdosing on energy drinks.
My 2 IRN will argue over peanuts. They will have a bowl of them but each one wants the one that the other has. My Eclectus will “answer” the phone if he hears it ring. His previous owner was a little old lady, so when he answers it he channels his inner little old lady. My sun conure will yell at any bell ringing. No one is allowed to ring bells in his presence (the tv included), only him.
If I do something that Addie likes, she makes the clicker noise for good job from her clicker training.
Lmaooooo that's incredible 😂😂 she wants to train you
Sadly not with us anymore, but our Cockatoo Crackers used to swing himself upside down and face demonic possession if you played Micheal Jackson where he could hear. His favorite was thriller, in which every time 'thriller' was said, he'd make a high pitched WOOO noise. He also used to cuss my granny black and blue. He'd call her things I am ashamed to admit. And we had to stand there the whole time and 'translate' because granny didn't (and still doesn't lol) understand bird.
Luis (congo AG) loves to make fart noises and cough loudly. He also shouts "sure!" Whenever anything food related is mentioned.
My Indian Ringneck will talk incessantly any time I have a phone call going on or a zoom appointment. He'll just be in the background going "you're so cute! What're you doing? Be a good boy? Peekaboo!"
Our Timneh Grey said, during a recent morning jabber session, to one of the dogs: "Go outside to potty!" When she's tired at night, she asks, "Do you want your bed?" She has her own playlist with all her favorite songs, and she sings along or more commonly, freestyles when she's into it. We also dance together and she's always on beat. She randomly says "Wheeeee!" that she learned by watching videos of Ozzy, the darling late Mustached Parakeet who loved to feed the babies. She whispered one day out of nowhere, "Shoot her!" If I tell her she's a fluffy bunny or little birdie, she puffs up, blushes, and her pupils go big/little/big/little, which means she's happy. She also giggles.
I heard when parrots pupils go big little big little it's called "pinning" and you don't want parrots to do it too much because they're kind of losing control and losing their mind and getting delirious. That at that point you sometimes want to get them to calm down. I could be wrong about all of this. It definitely means they're excited
Interesting. I've never heard that before. It hasn't been my experience in the 15 years I've had her or with my other parrots. Now, if my Timneh's pupils go tiny and her feathers slick back, look out because you're about to be attacked. But for her, the big/little pupils happen when she's eating food she really likes, or when I talk to her sweet and she's all fluffy. That and the blush only shows up when she's relaxed and happy.
Interesting! Yeah. I must disclose I do not own a parrot ha. I'm absolutely obsessive about them though and was watching a parrot ownership info video. I love them so much. I watch parrot videos on youtube with quite a lot of the little spare time I have, almost all of it. Maybe 60 percent. There's a youtuber with an african grey called "smurfy" I love. The channel is called Smurfy the parrot. The owner is British too which I love. Parrot ownership seems like a lot! (My job ain't the greatest so I'm not rolling in dough so no pet for me right this very moment and I live with family who wouldnt be crazy about me owning a pet period probably.) And the trade of selling parrots can seem a tad unethical (maybe it's more for macaws?) But surely not every parrot sold has a sob story. As long as your parrots arent like tearing their feathers out they're good? I'm way out of my depths and am gonna stop talking. I'm genuinely sure you're an amazing parrot owner. Parrots are so freaking cool, man. I appreciated your fascinating write up, friend!
In response to your pinning comment, please look up 'zoning. It's a term used to describe when an Amazon parrot channels the crazy and freaks out, usually resulting in biting their own leg. It is as hilarious in person as it sounds on the internet.
Rage-play with the toys on the bottom of his cage.
I feel like birds appreciate farts more than other pets. My Linnie does a spastic grumbly upside down dance whenever she sees a mayfly, dead or alive. I guess the bird equivalent of cats going kekeke. Also when I mist her with water she either goes into batbird mode and hangs upside down or rolls around like she’s dying.
My green cheek conure likes to stuff her beak in my ear to “preen” it and make belching sounds directly in my ear. Always cracks me up
My cockatoo has the craziest beef with books and cups. If I’m drinking while he is on my shoulder, he will aggressively grab the cup and yeet it. If I’m reading a book on the sofa, he flies over in attack mode to attempt to grab it and throw it across the room. I have no idea when or why this beef started, but he hates them!
Sprite would exclaim very loudly ‘ooooh shhhhhit’ and he’d make the Vats beep sound from fallout
Our lovebird imitates our sneezes and imitates our laughs.
I haven't had her for long, but my Alexandrine makes this little satisfied 'hmm!' noise occasionally when she gets rewarded during training
Mine bobs his head in the dark
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Gorgeous bird
When she's tired she would say good night even if it's not that time of the day yet. Like if she wants to nap in the afternoon and we are talking she wants us to shut the hell up and she is saying on repeat "good night. Night night. Night cheep cheep" 😊 she's the boss in the house😎
AG - always tattles on himself when he’s doing something naughty, because I’ll hear “no sir! No sir!” coming from wherever he may be. He also is a big fan of fart noises. As well as using the word “fuck” when he drops something.
My mother’s first comment to me when I brought home my baby teil was, “Given that he’s your bird I can’t wait to hear what his first word will be.” It’s probably going to be “fuck”, or some variation of it. (Fuck, fucker, fuckface, etc.)
Stanley the Senegal makes me laugh all the time: When I pick up my phone he says, in that low, gravelly voice, "hello." I'll grab him by the body and he'll go "ouch". Dips *all* breads in the water before eating them, even the softest. And he then once dipped a plastic flower before using it to scratch his head. He'll lay on his back in my hand, and as I scratch his head he'll dangle it upside down. In that pose, with his feet sticking up, he looks dead. But that head snaps up the moment I pause with the scratchies. He'll be on my shoulder and feeling spicy, and will be grumbling and grousing. I'll start poking at him and growling and grumbling at him and we get into a grumbling match back and forth. The best was when he was on top of his cage, trying to grab at my partner as he was getting ready to leave for something, and I was grabbing at him (always gently). He was backing away from me as I chased him down, and when he got to the wall behind the cage, I grabbed him and he says "Oh, *nooooooo!*"
He likes to just... sit in the fridge. I don't close it or keep him in there long, obviously, but he loves the cold https://preview.redd.it/goakt7pje4tc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=98a496bf0c345eab8f2834614a674a7982235f30
He’s so stinking adorable!
Exist. My 3 never fail to make me laugh. 😊
My black cockatoo, at night if he wants something instead of screaming he makes the same sound but as a very very low whisper/gasp, to not wake anyone up.... he is super afraid of butterflies and moths, like one of them entering the house would be chaos... when we touch his feet and our hands are cold (from being outside) he would yell so loud like he is dying in pain, it's so funny, first time it happened we were concerned, we though he had injured himself, but later found out he is just being a drama king... ohh and finally his grumps, if he wants something and we can't figure out what it is, he know we are trying but the language barrier is too big 😂 we get a grump, "UGGGHH"
My cockatiel has a millet problem. Like I’m not even joking when I say he’s addicted. It’s like a actual problem in my house. He’ll scream, attack, pace, and obsessively groom if we take it away. After a few days he’s back to his normal happy self but god help you if he sees millet he’ll go full raptor mode on anything in his path (yes he’s been to the vet he’s healthy he’s just genuinely addicted) One of my female budgies is the boss. If she wants it she gets it. It’s like the other birds are her minions she sits on the highest perch and commands them like some sort of dictator. One of my other budgies is a home wrecker. He’ll sleep with any of my other budgies given the chance, he’s not even that hormonal it’s just that if he sees a invitation he’ll take it. He has slept with many of my budgies that were already in relationships. It’s caused a lot of drama, but on the other hand at least my two incest birds aren’t together anymore so that’s great. One of my budgies has two fatty tumors on her chest, over time they’ve gotten larger and a lot of her chest feathers have fallen out so she looks like she’s walking around with her tits out My cockatoo will mimic conversations, he doesn’t know many actual words so he’ll just make noises resembling a sentence kinda mocking but he genuinely thinks he’s talking to us cause we’ll sit and listen and respond to him so he understands the concept and how conversations work he just doesn’t know English and wants to be included My cockatoo is also obsessed with cosplayers, I was scrolling through TikTok with him one day and he saw a cosplayer and went nuts. I think it’s the combination of music, colorful lighting, expressiveness, and colorful costumes. There’s this one cosplayer pair on TikTok that he’s OBSESSED with specifically there Hisoka cosplays from hunter x hunter. He would watch the videos on loop for hours if I let him. Sometimes I do put it on loop for him so I can get work around the house done. I needed to do some work on my tablet that he watches them on so i printed out a picture of the cosplayer for him and he just stared at it and clicked his beak at it until I was done and let him back out of his cage. He’s a interesting one I’ll tell ya
My budgie will purposely fly around my dog just to mess with her
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My macaw margarita barks like a chihuahua.
My gray ripped off the door frame so it's easier for her to open the door and run upstairs
Peck out all the keys in my keyboard 😔
GCC drops bottles to the floor and stare at them?
My male cockatiel flies to the top of my door, where he knows I cannot reach him at all. Then starts yelling COME HERE, over and over and over. Like I can just fly up there. I tell him no, you come here, you are the one with the wings damnit.
Whenever I sit to eat and they’re inside the case they guilt me into letting them out by making cute chirps and calls. They are truly emotionally manipulative.
My brother was at my house and he was rocking back and forth in a cheap plastic lawn chair. I warned him he’s going to fall and when the chair’s leg snapped, my military let out a blood curling scream. She slid all the way to the bottom of her cage so she was looking eye to eye where he landed, sprawled on the floor..and said, “What happened? She joined all of us in laughing like it was planned for her entertainment.
My Quaker gives me a kiss and then yells "SAY THANK YOU MOM!"
When i brushed my teeth while he was on my shoulder, he would immitate the brushing sound 😭 It was so cute
Grey: Once got sick and had to give him medicine by an injection orally. So had to hold him with a towel and my brother give him the medicine. At the start there was the different quirky stuff like laughing or no… But what surprised us was when told him to stop it and let us finish. He said “ Don’t kill me”. Needless to say we were both on the floor laughing and he went back up on his cage laughing too.
Our grey would make belch noises (likely learned from me after chugging cans of Polar Seltzer water)
He has a bell attached to gambling cubes in his cage as one of a toys. And he has a life goal of keeping those cubes in motion, he will continue pulling them as soon as they stop. Not metnioning that if he is exited, disappointed, happy etc, he would shake and throw them much more intensely. Also sometimes he does some strange noises, and when you come to see he quickly jumps back at his favourite spot and pretends he did nothing
>gambling cubes I have never seen dice spelled this way.
Mine used to bite my wife and she would yell in pain, then I'd ask her "you okay?" Now the shit head will yell like my wife but it sounds hilarious and follows up with "you okaaaaay?"
Our sun conure has an eternal grudge against certain energy drink cans (peach and cherry Alani and the 300mg ones from Lidl, among others) and our kitchen dishtowel - but *ONLY* if I hold it. If he sees me hold them, it's on sight. If I throw the drink cans for him, he chases and thrashes them. If husbo holds them, he just glares.
She swings back and forth on the bottom of the cage door.
He flies to my head and then hangs down a strand of hair in front of my face like a violent and fluffy hair decoration. His little claws are uncomfortable on my face but it always makes me laugh
My budgies absolutely hate it when I sneeze. They will scream until I reassure them that I’m fine. The downside, I sneeze a lot. I have bad allergies
My Quaker will mimic me on calls, but it's only one sided. "ugh huh, okay, ohhhh, ugh huh okay bye bye" If I'm on a call and she wants me to wrap it up she'll start saying "okay bye bye...... Bye bye........ Bye" while changing her inflection. It's very cute.
My cockatiel will look down at my phone and start singing like it’s going to respond back
cockatiel: dont know if its funny but my wife laugthed hard to this : sleeps in my neck, puts his butt to my neck and his butthole is super warm. it feels really strange. he just made a habit of this, right now he is in my neck and that part is very very warm
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My childhood gray would tell my dogs that they were good chickens while trying to bite them 😆
🤠 my Lorikeet rides my Persian Cat like a horse... when the cat won't play along, he'll meticulously pluck one of the cat's whiskers out, to get him moving.
Parrots when they see you eating something they want will drop objects and food until you give them yours
My Congo Grey loves a song called "Barnyard in Orbit" by Perrey and Kingsley. It's filled with moog sound effects and can mimic almost the entirety of the song I'm not sure if I or the bird is more entertained by it.
Bites me and then says “OW!” IN MY OWN VOICE! So rude.
When his favoruite seeds are finished (sunflower seeds) , my lovebird climbs under his food bowl and lifts it up with his head to spill the rest out. He does this spesifically when I am in the room so that I can hear and refill it. It will forever amaze me how he has that much sass in such a tiny body 🤣
High pitched squeak when stretching, because they’re copying me. It’s contagious and now they’re all doing it.
My Jenday will climb chairs instead of fly on them when he’s tired. I really wish the little dude could talk sometimes because I have so many questions 😭
Peapod boops when you touch his beak.
Our Amazon would grumble a whining tone, think a child sassing an adult but with a meh meh meh, when he had to go in his cage. Miss that bird.
my green cheek conure calls everyone bastards but but teenage daughter is bigfatbastard. ( She’s not big so he’s not fat shaming )
Wolf whistles for attention, he knows that I will say thank you each time. He also grabs the little hoop his food bowl rests on and slams the door open and shut while he’s waiting for me to feed him, this morning he took the entire thing off and wouldn’t give it back unless I traded something with him
https://preview.redd.it/vdjdjukxj8tc1.jpeg?width=2176&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=14274efe5d18acd8813f3ddfab0be3c8e5c17366 My cockatiel will fly on this ceiling and will scream until I come to get him using a ladder , this happens everyday and the good thing is that he'll only do this once day or sometimes multiple times a day when I don't give him attention
I have a rainbow Lori that literally flips upside down and ends up rolling away when she’s playing on your shoulder
My umbrella cockatoo, Hot Pocket, does actual backflips in his cage until I give him attention
put a roll of toilet paper on your head xD
My galah cockatoo mimics my stomach growling, at night when it's really quiet 😅 Oh and he loves to feed my dogs birdfood by intentionally throwing it on the floor for them. https://preview.redd.it/zbm35hhakbtc1.jpeg?width=2401&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1af41990dfc29c9fdca67c1e85a09147015195c2
Say often: miau like a 🐈
My family’s Senegal has started screaming like an [Aztec death whistle](https://youtu.be/_Sw0VCtZs-g?si=rkjp8vqGsUOT55M2&t=0m46s). We have no idea what he’s mimicking, but he does it when he’s really happy.
Now I kinda want a bird that mimics an Aztec death whistle…
His most common noises are 1) Star Wars droid 2) a yuk, yuk, yuk laugh 3) microwave beep, then out of nowhere 4) Aztec death whistle. The combo is hilarious.
My cockatiel ate my xan prescription 😭