High Pitched Noises

[alreadydead]

Hello, I really dont know where to turn to so im giving this a try, i have a 9 yr old male amazon, he has plenty of company through out the day, he whistles sings and talks but as soon as he hears a high pitched tone he squawks and now to the point when the phone rings or you operate the microwave, we have to go outside to make a phone call as you just cannot not hear yourself speak. This is the last change saloon for my little friend as i have been warned that if i cannot control his squawking them i must get rid of him which i just do not want to do but with a wife that works nights and being woken up frequently by zak and his squawking his becoming a strain. I have turned off the tone buttons on the phone which makes it slightly easier but its just not cutting the mustard and i hope someone has had a similar problem and managed to overcome this. All help would be most welcome.
Thanks from derek and zak

[Wolf]

Well you are a bit sketchy on the details of what is occurring, but it sounds to me that the screaming only begins with the ringing or dialing of the phone and that it continues until after you hang the phone up. This behavior is classic jealousy.
I don't have enough information to figure out what the reinforcement is, but something is done that reinforces the behavior so that it continues and we need to figure out what it is so that we can change what is happening.

[Pajarita]

I don't have any experience on an amazon reacting that way to a bell or ringing... Mine are pretty quiet (except for the talking, singing and whistling) and the only ones that actually do loud calls are the Blue Fronts but mainly the male, the female only occasionally and not often at all. My YNAs and the YCA don't do calls at all, not even in the evenings. But then, they all live in a birdroom (no human-produced stimuli) without cages and having each other for company (they have their own little flock). Is it possible that he is warning you when he screams? I have a cockatoo that would start screaming because of an external stimulus (say, he gets startled by a large bird flying or perching right over his head or one bird flying after another one, something like that) and can go on for quite a while, though. He was given up because he was a screamer but he is fine now and, when he starts with his pterodactyl screams, I simply put my hand in front of his face (I cup my hand and put it about 2.5 inches away right in front of his face) and that stops his screams like magic. He doesn't get scared or even reacts in any way to it except he stops and turns to look at me so I just talk to him for a few seconds and that's the end of that (I don't even stop doing whatever it is I am doing in the birdroom at the time, I just turn around, put my hand out and keep on going).

[Wolf]

Kookooloo, my Grey hates technology and will run over to bite me for touching a remote, a phone or my computer, but she doesn't scream. Mimi, my Yellow- Naped Amazon, gets quite loud when on the phone, she just wants to talk to it, too.
None of mine scream over the phone, though it seems to me that you either need to show her that it is ok, or take the phone to another room to talk.

[KimberlyAnn]

Emmi does the same thing, but it's more like the microwave was another bird and she was answering its call. Once we got a new microwave that just happened to have a lower toned beep, she stopped. Same thing with the phone. We changed our phone rings to music and the contact calling stopped. If she hears high pitched tones on the tv..it still happens. Could that be the issue?