At night, if Onan gets thirsty, he come out of the nightstand, raps in my lips and sticks his head in for a drink. I think I am doing it without even waking now. When the Bird Flu comes, I am a dead man.
No wonder Steve has followers.
that was one of the first things the dive master mentioned when we started dating. ‘don’t touch your tongue to conan’s,’ he said.
when i asked why, he said our mouths are full of nasties that could harm The Feathered One.
since those days i’ve taught trigger how to throw a kiss. as a matter of fact she’s even begun to imitate the dive master and i kissing! greenwings are entirely too smart for my own good.
Yep, that the problem, I don’t want Steve getting human germs. It is a problem because we never “taught” him to kiss. Shortly after I first got him, he would start fussing after I kissed my husband good night. After week or two fussing, he was starting to cry and dance back and forth. We knew he wanted something. Not treats, not water, not “Up”. So I kissed him (just a peck on the beak with a “Mwaw” sound) By the end of the month Steve had decided he could sleep without a kiss from each of us. He hasn’t given up that he will eventually get the kiss intensity level
Never in all my born days have I heard such a thing. It is much too late for him, I’m afraid. Onan has an oral fixation.
All of them do. George used to give my husband a hard time, so to get bird to like him, my husband held the bird close to his face and sang as loudly as he could. George basked in the attention and decided they were such good buddies he put his whole skull in my husbands mouth. It was subsequently reported that conures taste like really, really old fritos
Tashabot, when J. Edgar sat on your shoulder, did he go “WHummmmm, WHummmmmmmm”?
George always sounded like that on my shoulder. It was a really deep pulsing hum. It was really quiet, you could only hear it from super close- I think he did it by fluffing out his pectoral feathers and vibrating them. I always figured it was a happy purr because he sometimes ground his beak at the same time. The greys don’t do that, the chest feathers are the wrong stiffness on the edges
George was a huge conure also, bigger then either of the wondertwins.
Your birds are beautiful!
For a look at an amazing African Grey, check out Alex and the research of his owner, animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg.
The image of a ticked off Alex, fuming in silence, and then angrily hurling a peanut at his uncooperative owner is priceless.
I have their book in my queue - but it has been there for ages, so I’m not sure I’ll ever get around to buying it.
N’kisi is also a very intelligent grey- even more so than Alex. N’kisi is able to make conversation very intelligently.
I have no idea, as I was too young to interact with the parrot when he died.
My parents’ cockatiel, however, does something similar, however, it sounds a little higher pitched because he’s a smaller bird.
Anyone ever catch their bird like, muttering under their breath? I swear, my parents’ cockatiel is talking shit about me - or making death threats.
~Tasha
My Tiel is a squatter. He flew down to my head from a tree in my backyard and decided to stay. He whistles the Andy of Mayberry theme, whistles for the dog then barks like the chihuahua. He is very fond of saying “Here boy” when he wants something from you. He loves to groom and be groomed. When he sees my husband’s yellow tape measure he makes a sound I can only interpret as “SNAKE!!!”
Oh, man…our Grey does this all the time (the muttering). You can’t make out words, but he does sound very disgusted with us. When he is actually talking, he sounds quite cheerful, but obviously, that’s just a put-on! 
One of the wondertwins mutters. He says lots of things under his breath, and they all sound angry and disgruntled. George would mumble in his sleep, but it sounded happy, about half way between whistling and singing.
'kay. this took forever… the dive master was slow in delivering, but here she is:
trigger, aka ‘bad-ass bird,’ in all her glory.
all four pounds’ worth. 
One of my 'tiels is a mutterer.
OOoooooohhhh! Trigger is hypnotically beautiful. I was intrigued by the idea of Shark Dance before, but now I think Trigger could sweep “Dancing With the Stars”
isn’t she a vision? really gorgeous plumage that a picture really doesn’t do justice to. the dive master has special lighting above her cage that simulates sunlight, and it makes a world of difference on how she looks. when he got her, she was an unholy mess. her feathers were all stuck together and looked really bedraggled. less than a week later after the special lighting and a couple of showers, (honest. he steps into the shower, bird on his arm, and they both get a bath) she looked like a different bird! 
oh, and my bad.
i was informed last night by the dive master that Herself is actually FIVE pounds of bad-ass bird.
PRETTY!!!
Oh man, that is one beautiful bird. How cuuute.
~Tasha