which species has the most irritating call?

[Giantmoa]

whether because of volume, pitch, or frequency, which parrot's daily noises would drive you nuts if you lived with them?
I realize some of the options I put are quite broad, but you can specify if it is a a particular species, etc. in the comments.

[kaylayuh]

The pitch and tonal qualities of Aratinga Conures drives me absolutely bonkers. Seeing as how I have a Pyrrhura Conure and budgies, I'm not too bothered by them. Cockatoos also don't usually bother me. I've never heard most of the others to pass judgment.

[Giantmoa]

I feel like you can get used to anything. I used to find conure calls irritating but now I barely notice them, even the aratingas I'm around. My friend's tiel on the other hand has just the right sound and pitch to be just the slightest bit annoying even though when I had a cockatiel for years it wasn't bothersome at all. I nolonger jump when I hear the macaw at work suddenly scream, at least, and I'm slowly getting over the shock of the sheer volume a cockatoo can produce right in your ear. Some birds, like amazons, are loud but aren't shrieky loud so I don't mind them either.

[kaylayuh]

People with Bipolar Disorder often have sensory sensitivities, particularly to sounds. If I'm even the slightest bit off on a particular day, I find I'm much more sensitive to certain sounds, particularly if I want to just be in bed and Cheney Bird is "EE EE EE"ing.

Even on good days, I've noticed I'm particularly sensitive to Sun conures. I've been around them a couple of times and have always wanted one until I heard them scream. To me, it was just like nails on a chalkboard. It was so awful that my skin was crawling.

Oddly enough, they've been the only birds so far to make me feel that way. I don't know what it was about their call in particular, but it just did something to me. Even when I'm in a particularly foul mood, I've never felt that way with any of my three birds.

[Michael]

Definitely Conures. They're calls are just so loud, shrill and piercing. Everything about them is plain annoying.

I could almost say I like the way my Pois sound if they didn't do it so damn much! But you can imagine that I almost strangled Kili when she picked up Conure shreiking from the bird store. I am SOOOOO relieved that she forgot how to do it since but I don't take her back there now.

I would have voted Cockatoos too but it's their screaming I can't stand rather than their contact calls. I'm not sure if you meant all inclusive by calls or specifically their voices. Cockatoo screaming seems different from calling cause it is a learned nuisance behavior right? I don't think they use it to communicate with each other but just to let off steam. That may be worse than Conures just based on shear volume.

[GlassOnion]

What's wrong with aratinga screeches? I actually like the sound of them.. It makes me feel like I'm in the middle of an exotic rainforest.

[Michael]

Would you want to live in the rain forest 24/7?

[GlassOnion]

Well, as long as the bird didn't make me feel like I'm in a rainforest ALL day..

[zazanomore]

Quakers. I had one scream in my ear once, turned me off them completely.

[CheekyandMalolo]

I think I'm just used to the fact that bird make loud noises. There are some noises that our Princess Parrot makes that get frustrating, think of a high pitched truck reversing, but that's not one of his Princess Parrot noises, it's a learn noise, infact I don't even know what noise a Princess Parrot makes!! He does an awesome Cocky screech too, I love it, mum doesn't. Our Conure's could be sitting in my lap screaming their heads off while I watch a movie and I don't even notice it anymore. Tiel's yelling don't bother me either, our Lories never bothered me, Red Wing doesn't bother me. Dunno.