# Strange Parrot Behavior **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 12, 2000, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-parrot-behavior/8560 "2000-03-12T04:24:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![perkitl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9de053/32.png) [@perkitl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perkitl)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-parrot-behavior/8560/1 "2000-03-12T04:24:00Z")
I have a mitred conure parrot and he recently started a new behavior. When I am holding him on my hand in front of my face, he juts his beak towards me, opens his mouth and makes a sound like “Hah” three or four times. The sound is not loud and it sounds a little like blowing with your mouth open. It is kind of on the angry side or maybe like he is trying to scare me. Does anyone know what this is all about? Why is he doing this? ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-parrot-behavior/8560/2 "2000-03-12T04:38:00Z")
Do **not** lean over in front of this parrot. Unless you want to, that is. 😉 Peace, mangeorge * * * I only know two things; I know what I need to know And I know what I want to know Mangeorge, 2000 ---
**Author:** ![perkitl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9de053/32.png) [@perkitl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perkitl)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-parrot-behavior/8560/3 "2000-03-12T04:48:00Z")
What is that supposed to mean mangeorge? ---
**Author:** ![JustDucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f14d63/32.png) [@JustDucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustDucky)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-parrot-behavior/8560/4 "2000-03-12T04:56:00Z")
Hi perkit, I have a jenday conure and he has never done that but he will sometimes do this thing that is almost like a dog barking, kind of like he is scolding me or something. How long has your bird been doing this? And does he talk yet? Maybe he is mimicing something he has seen. Not much help, sorry. Ducky * * * Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-parrot-behavior/8560/5 "2000-03-12T05:23:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by perkitl: > **What is that supposed to mean mangeorge?** Just a feeble attempt at some sick humor, perkitl. Implying that your parrot was uttering a mating call. Sorry. I developed a trashy mouth partly from working in oil refineries. 🙂 Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![perkitl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9de053/32.png) [@perkitl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perkitl)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-parrot-behavior/8560/6 "2000-03-12T05:51:00Z")
Wow mangeorge! I work in an oil refinery, too! Conoco Refinery in Westlake, Louisiana What a coincidence. ---
**Author:** ![perkitl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9de053/32.png) [@perkitl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perkitl)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-parrot-behavior/8560/7 "2000-03-12T05:57:00Z")
Hi Ducky Red barks at me, too. I think he is fussing at me when he does it. We play on the floor and if I scare him he barks. Red is nine months old. He says quite a few things. Like: Hi, What are you doing?, Step up, Good boy, Pretty boy, what?, why? That’s all I can think of right now. Does your bird talk? Does your bird regurgitate on you? Red does. They say it means he really likes me and is trying to feed me. That is suppossed to be the highest compliment he can pay me. I think it is grotesque. ---
**Author:** ![perkitl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9de053/32.png) [@perkitl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perkitl)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-parrot-behavior/8560/8 "2000-03-12T07:03:00Z")
What ya’ll do, go to bed? I’m not so lucky. Working the night shift. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-parrot-behavior/8560/9 "2000-03-12T07:23:00Z")
For some reason, my Norweigian Blue doesn’t seem to be doing anything at all… * * * _…send lawyers, guns, and money…_ ``` Warren Zevon ``` ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_Next\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@Girl\_Next\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_Next_Door)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-parrot-behavior/8560/10 "2000-03-12T07:43:00Z")
I know exactly what your Norweigan Blue is doing. He’s pining for the fjords. * * * Leslie Irish Evans [http://leslie.scrappy.net](http://leslie.scrappy.net) ---
**Author:** ![EnigmaOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EnigmaOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnigmaOne)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-parrot-behavior/8560/11 "2000-03-12T10:09:00Z")
{{{{…Does your bird regurgitate on you? Red does. They say it means he really likes me and is trying to feed me…}}}—perkitl :::Checking thread name::: Geeze! Thought I was back in the “barf” thread again. ## Here’s hoping that all parrots **hate** me. – **Kalél** _Common ¢ for all ages…_ “Well, there was that thing with the Cheese-Wiz…but I’m feeling **much** better now!” – John Astin, Night Court “If ignorance is bliss, you must be orgasmic.” ---
**Author:** ![perkitl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9de053/32.png) [@perkitl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perkitl)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-parrot-behavior/8560/12 "2000-03-12T10:34:00Z")
Bluepony, is a Norwegian Blue a type of parrot? ---
**Author:** ![perkitl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9de053/32.png) [@perkitl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perkitl)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-parrot-behavior/8560/13 "2000-03-12T10:35:00Z")
Thanks EnigmaOne. I am still laughing. That was a good one. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-parrot-behavior/8560/14 "2000-03-12T17:40:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Bluepony: > \*\*For some reason, my Norweigian Blue doesn’t seem to be doing anything at all… > > \*\* You didn’t get it from the “Monty Python” pet store I hope! Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![kaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f17d59/32.png) [@kaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaos)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-parrot-behavior/8560/15 "2000-03-12T17:50:00Z")
here is what I think about the thread, not the puking thing. I have been working with birds (parakeets mainly) for almost 13 years, and I have never seen them do anything like that, to human at least… How long have you had this bird? SInce it was a baby, or freshly born. Because if you have had it since it was born, it thinks you are it’s mother, and will act starngely towards you. I know that the “hah” sound it makes is a sign of aggresion, it is trying to scare you way, maybe becuase you are to close to him/her. And the puking thing, the only reason that bird would try and regurgitate on you is if it thought you were it’s offspring. Which is really unlikely because of the size difference, but birds have been known to do strange things… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![perkitl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9de053/32.png) [@perkitl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perkitl)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2000, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-parrot-behavior/8560/16 "2000-03-13T10:15:00Z")
This bird is nine months old and I have had him since he was five months old or as soon as he was weened. ---
**Author:** ![kaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f17d59/32.png) [@kaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaos)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2000, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-parrot-behavior/8560/17 "2000-03-13T17:31:00Z")
so you haven’t had him for that long then right? Do you leave it home by itself all day while you are at work? Since it is so young, it doesn’t know what to be afraid of, as compared to the wild. If you go to work all day everyday and leave the bird home by itself, then it will probably start forgetting you at this young age, so when you bring it nice and close to your face, then it will proably start freaking out. Try and spend some more time with him if you can, then see how things go, ok? ---
**Author:** ![perkitl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9de053/32.png) [@perkitl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perkitl)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-parrot-behavior/8560/18 "2000-03-15T01:43:00Z")
This bird is rarely alone and is completely spoiled rotten. He loves me to death and will bite anyone who tries to take him from me when I am holding him. Believe me that is not it. Remember, he tries to feed me he loves me so much.