by Pajarita » Thu Jan 18, 2018 11:37 am
It would be better if you could post a video of it but your description sounds as if the male is feeding the female -which, unless you are in the Southern Hemisphere, should not be happening this time of the year. Quakers are from the temperate zone in South America [I know that many sites in the net say they are tropical but I think that's because people tend to think that all parrots are either tropical or semi-tropical but they are not -quakers come from my country and we are not tropical] and need to follow a VERY strict solar schedule because all temperate zone birds are much more 'sensitive' to long days than the tropical ones and become hormonal much more easily.
When they 'beak' each other [mild aggression], they don't actually lock their beaks together, it looks more like a 'fencing' thing so the head movement is not always the same and regularly repetitive - but, when the male feeds the female, they will both put their heads sideways so the beaks kind of 'fit' into one another in order for the female to be able to get the food from the male's beak without any spilling out. There is movement in both their heads when they do this, too, and this movement is steady and repetitive but short in duration because it stops as soon as his crop is empty.