What weird things does your bird do?

[notscaredtodance]

I looked away for a second and my bird disappeared from my pillow. I found her tunneling under it! She really likes burying herself in small, dark, tight spaces, like a ferret, and also ilkes makeshift caves, like crawling into tissue boxes. And since she's not even 2 yet, I'm pretty sure its not nesting behavior.

She also loves rolling on and playing on her back like a caique. Whenever she gets a new foot toy she rolls onto her back with it. And when she's cuddling in my hand she likes laying on her side. Really. Her side.

What weird atypical things does your bird do?

[zazanomore]

My cockatiel, Einstein does this really weird thing. Whenever I have Einstein out with a millet spray, or his food bowl, he picks up the food, waddles over to my arm, places it on my arm, then eats it there. Doesn't matter how far away my arm is, he feels the need to ALWAYS eat on me. It's like I'm a giant plate. After he finishes eating, I always have shells and bits and pieces of seeds all over my clothes.

A couple days ago, I reorganized my room, and so the cages were moved. I think it really startled Einstein, because whenever I put him back in his cage, he started crying. So I would take him out and he'd cuddle right up close to me. Like, he went right under my chin and refused to leave. So I let him stay there until bed time. Now he seems more like himself and I think he's adjusted now.

As for the budgies. They pretty much act like normal budgies...most of the time. Clyde has this really weird habit. He always tries to crawl down my shirt -I know, awkward. Has anyone seen that video of the lovebird making a nest in that woman's top? That's basically what he tries to do. The weird thing is, he's only semi-tame. And it's only him that tries.

[tacotaco]

notscaredtodance, both of my birds act the same exact way as yours. they love going in my pillows, under blankets, under my bed, etc. Both are under 2 yrs old as well so I don't think it would be nesting behavior either (?) no idea. Funny though

[entrancedbymyGCC]

I don't know what's typical for a Cape, so I don't know if Scotty is weird or not!

Scooter seems to very much a GCC. He has a lot of endearing behaviors, Including insisting on lying on his back in our hands, but none of them are really "wierd". He definitely has a high propensity to attempt human speech, to the point where it seems he rarely makes natural bird noises.

Beware that burrowing behavior. I know you guys all know this, but getting smothered or squashed under bedclothes or cushions appears on almost every list of common accidents for pet birds. So I think many must be inclined to do this.

[meowingaround]

Windy does quite a few weird things as far as I'm concerned.

He gets real close to my face then he'll push his face right up to my eyeballs.. then yank it back really fast... we've made a game of it.. kinda like peek a boo without hiding =P

When he's walking around all I can think of is a kid with A.D.H.D, he's not graceful in the slightest but not because he can't be, he just gets a bit hyper and waddles around in a frenzy.

There's quite a few foods, like chips that he won't eat until he has some from my lips, always makes me think he thinks I'm trying to poison him.

OOOH when I try and take a nap without him covered he walks on the paper at the bottom of the cage and if I open my eyes there he is head tilted to the side one eyeball focused on me, that's a little creepy.

If I let him under my covers, he suddenly goes stupid and tries to bite my face off if i "peek"

He won't go anywhere near his playset, had it for over a year and he just screams if I try to put him on it.

He's a strange little bird that's all I know.


Willow is much less strange, but no less adorable.

[issy]

Sheldon has an obsession with boxes and anything he can crawl in. He also loves lying on his back nad dangling two toys in each foot, is this just a lorikeet thing or do other birds do this? XD

He also loves hiding under blankets and pillows =D

[Ryan416]

Roxy loves to play with foot toys too, sometimes she tries to stand on them. I'm getting tired of washing towels but this is the only place she will do this. LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ6nD2OLAvg

[born2fly]

Roxy loves to play with foot toys too, sometimes she tries to stand on them. I'm getting tired of washing towels but this is the only place she will do this. LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ6nD2OLAvg

That's pretty funny to see them clown arond like that.

[issy]

That is so cute, exactly like sheldon. =D

[iknowwhatiknow]

Rory does that too. They're such clowns!

The other thing that he does that is hilarious to me is that he jams himself in odd places. He's got a few piece of bark in his cage that he makes holes in (a decent effort, they're about 1cm thick) and then he plays at crawling through the holes. He does the same thing with a ring toy that hangs from his roof, and the ladder that's in his cage. The less likely he is to fit - the more likely he is to try and fit.

I've never met a bird that liked to burrow, but Rory's pretty sure he's a dog. Guess that's what I get for teaching him to fetch.