Hot Tub Bird!

[Bonibelle]

Hey Galen,
Here is whyI know a little about exotic birds...



This is my Tango...fresh out of the "tub"...She is a 5 year old Yellow Nape. My husband came home from a meeting one night and told me if his friend's parrot eggs hatched, I would have a baby Amazon!  Sure enough, I started getting email pictures of eggs and then two babies.
I got Tango when she was 3 months old. I had her DNA tested for the very reason you stated, they do tend to get nasty when they mature...
especially the males.

Tango is also an excellent talker, but what is really amazing about these birds is their exceptional intellegence.  She has a great vocabulary but she also knows when to say things...it's more than just repeating! Among many things that she says, She sings the Eagles Fight song, complete with spelling E A G L E S...and she usually dances and ends the song with a loud Arrrrriba.

Galen, is the sound that your bird making like a clucking sound? Does she kind of nod up and down when she makes that sound?


 

[galen]

Yes, and Kona only does this when I'm around. What does it mean? I was thinking its the chick saying I'm hungry. But I not sure.

[Bonibelle]

she is telling you she loves you...I think it is a bonding thing..like the baby bonds to the mother that feeds it. Maybe Anne can tell us exactly what it means, but I think it is a kind of attachment thing..Tango did that as a baby and sometimes she will still do it.

I am amazed at how much I love her...she is really a part of our family.  So many of my friends think I am nuts for putting up with the mess and the noise, but I couldn't imagine being without her!

[galen]

My whole family thinks she is cool. My older brother took right to her. Kona will not bite. But some people still are intimidated by her beak. The worse thing they can do is jerk back. That sends them a signal that "hey he's scared of me. So you think she's telling me she love me or wants me to hold her? Kona is going through her first molt. I scratched her head for the first time last night and I thought she was going to fall off my arm. LOL. She closed her eyes, you could tell she really liked it. i took her into the living room tonight and her her on her stand. That lasted about two minutes and here she come. I like everyone that I can get to hold her to hold her. She will be more rounded. Does Anne have a bird?

[anne]

I replied on the other thread about my parents' amazon, Merlin. He lived with me for a few years when i was in college, but then my dad missed him......I dont have the lifestyle for a bird right now, and I'd hate to not be able to give one all the attention that he/she needed.

The clucking thing I'm not positive about (can we do audio clips here as well as photos? that would be hilarious) but one thing that psittacines will do to show affection is that head bob. They will sometimes actually regurgitate. I have never seen a baby do it, but adults do, and it is a maternal thing, as if they want to feed you. I used to put up with a lot of slimey regurgitated bird-food on my fingers in the name of letting Merlin say "I love you." Perhaps that same head bob from a baby is begging mom for food.

Love the bird pics!!!!!!

[Tatooed_Lady]

I've been away for awhile, but I saw this and decided I've got to post a pic of my little bundle of feathered food slingin, eardrum splitting, shirt pooping joy.



That's Honey, my Orange Winged Amazon. He's about a year and a half old, and if I could post a soundbyte of him, I'd post either "arrrrrrriba!" or his chicken cluck....he rocks!  

[tileman]

That is one perty bird you got there. I love his sky blue head.

[Bonibelle]

T-Lady, is that a King's cage? I think Tango has the same one! when we got it, I told my husband if the bird didn't like it, we could fit both kids in it...the darn thing weighs 175 lbs...

[bosco0633]

I dated a girl before I got married.  She was an animal trainer at a local zoo.  She raised exotic birds from hatched to a year in her home for the zoo.  She had birds worth 10,000 in her home.  Something called Makhas or something like that.  They were special colored parrots with really long tails.  Also she had an african gray as her own.  The bird was so smart, it could replicate you voice.  I really hated when the bird over heard a conversation I had on my cell phone with another "friend".  Thought he was going to blow my cover.  

[neocacher]

Here's my bird Duckee! Shes a 15 year old female yellow-nape amazon.



Neo

[anne]

She's a cutie!
It is amazing to me how many of you all have psittacines!

[LtDan]

It is amazing to me how many of you all have psittacines!

Sounds like something you get from hot tubbing with loose members of the opposite sex. They got a shot for it?

[anne]

Sounds like something you get from hot tubbing with loose members of the opposite sex. They got a shot for it?

Vaccine should be coming out next year; in the mean time, you'll just have to be careful!

[LtDan]

I suppose the odds of infection increase by sleeping naked!  

[Tatooed_Lady]

T-Lady, is that a King's cage? I think Tango has the same one! when we got it, I told my husband if the bird didn't like it, we could fit both kids in it...the darn thing weighs 175 lbs...

Sorry, Boni....I didn't check this thread again til now. *lol* King's, California, something like that....all once piece, welded together.....and it stands around 5 1/2' high. I couldn't argue for $300. It was used for a Macaw before, and I wanted something HUGE.
I think I heard Honey bark earlier tonight....3 dogs in the house, that wouldn't be a real shocker....but the chicken cluck is AWESOME!