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Headbobbing and regurgitation?

Postby sanja8888 » Fri Jul 23, 2010 6:46 pm

Hi guys,

My green cheek conure started doing this recently where he headbobbs. I bought a book on conures and it said thats how he shows affection. Recently he started regurgitating when he headbobbs. According to the book and what google tells me, this is normal but he keeps doing it when i pet him. I try to calm him down and so he stops doing it but sometimes he just wont stop.
What do i do? Do I let him do it or do i stop petting him? I love cuddling with him but I dont want him to keep regurgitating his food.

Please help!
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Re: Headbobbing and regurgitation?

Postby lainmai » Fri Jul 23, 2010 6:48 pm

Either you stop giving him so much attention or you simply deal with it. He thinks your his "mate" and is trying to feed you. There really isn't much you can do =/
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Re: Headbobbing and regurgitation?

Postby bmsweb » Sat Jul 24, 2010 2:25 am

My Green Cheeks do that to each other and a few weeks later we had 5 eggs ;)

Seriously its just your birds way of showing you affection and its natural behavior. Once you see the signs just distract your bird before he regurgitates.
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Re: Headbobbing and regurgitation?

Postby sanja8888 » Sat Jul 24, 2010 7:59 pm

Aw i feel flattered that my bird choose me as a mate even though i am more than a little disgusted at the regurgitation haha, ive been distracting him whenever he starts getting excited and this seems to work for now :) thanks for the replies guys!
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Re: Headbobbing and regurgitation?

Postby Marnie » Sat Jul 24, 2010 8:54 pm

my sennie does this too. she gets all excited when i fuss over her and starts the bobbing thing.
when it changes to more like an undulating motion i know she is gonna bring something up, so i walk away.
no thanks! i want her to keep her food to herself
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Re: Headbobbing and regurgitation?

Postby Azure Hanyo » Sun Jul 25, 2010 1:19 am

Bahaha! Galileo did this yesterday... I was flattered. Shame I had to tell him I was married. :lol:
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Re: Headbobbing and regurgitation?

Postby entrancedbymyGCC » Thu Jul 29, 2010 5:12 pm

Scooter hasn't done this... yet... I think I'd try to look for the early signs and put the bird away. Since he probably won't want to be put away, he may learn not to do it. I "accidentally" toilet trained Scooter that way!
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Re: Headbobbing and regurgitation?

Postby bmsweb » Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:08 pm

entrancedbymyGCC wrote:. . . I "accidentally" toilet trained Scooter that way!


Now that's the sort of accident I don't mind :)
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Re: Headbobbing and regurgitation?

Postby Malaise » Fri Jul 30, 2010 11:21 pm

My Nanday, Shelby used to do this. I took it as a compliment, but it is kind of gross! :lol: She headbangs to music a lot and that's normally when this happens. I just try to distract her and it usually works before anything comes up.
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Re: Headbobbing and regurgitation?

Postby owlyssa » Thu Jul 28, 2016 10:06 am

My Sennie has done this a few times when I come back upstairs with his breakfast, generally right after I open up his cage and place his new food bowl out for him. :?

He does the head-bobbing and regurgitating, but this last time I noticed he also seemed to get down low and droops his wings... Is this normal behavior as well? He's eating his breakfast as we speak and seems to be fine, but I'm a little leery.
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