Bird Talk Magazine

Bird Talk's latest issue has an article called "Stop The Squawk. The Dos and Don'ts of training parrots not to scream." By Elise Kaplan.

Her first observation is the most insightful: Parrots are jungle animals and they communicate often by squawking and whistling to let everyone know that things are OK. When there is silence, the birds think there is impending danger.

On the other hand, humans are noise averse and consider the lack of noise to mean that everything's OK. So when a parrot squawks to see if anyone is around and how they're doing, the human comes in to find out what's wrong.

Read the article if you have a noisy bird. It's very interesting.
- posted by J-Birds @ 4:06 PM |