Senegal Parrot Opening Mouth

[cdrusso]

Hi All,

I have just got my first ever parrot, me and my partner have bonded with her well but she seems to have a weird behaviour thing going on. She is eating and drinking and seems perfectly fine.

I have a video of what she is doing could anyone tell me what she is doing and weather its a health problem i.e Breathing problems? Help would be much appreciated

Regards Chris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WScrDGbn78w

[cdrusso]

She is very tired in this video she usually doesn't close her eyes, she does it anytime of the day really tired or not

[entrancedbymyGCC]

Begging for food? How old is she, and are you sure she was thoroughly weaned? The video isn't super clear, but I'm guessing that's what it is. Scooter makes a gesture a bit like that when his head is getting rubbed just the right way, FWIW.

[zazanomore]

Einstein has done that before. At first I thought it was just yawning. So I did a little online research, and what I came across was crop adjusting. From what I've read it's completely normal.

[cdrusso]

She was fully weaned and never did it before until my girlfriend gave her warm food and then I think she thought she was being weaned again. She is 13 weeks old. ?

[captwest]

Becareful with the warm food,anything warmer than 105 F could cause crop burn, this could result in massive infection in the birds crop. At 13 wks your bird has just weaned and still has the tendency to choke down what ever it's parents (you} might feed it. When it's older if will realize if some thing is too hot but at this young age such is not always the case.

[footfoot]

Wow,only 13 wks old. Awesome!!

[cdrusso]

Thanks Captwest and everyone else great help. Nice to see such a welcome forum

[Michael]

That is definitely begging behavior and that Senegal looks like such a baby. She is like "my beak is over here, that's where the food goes." However, even my older parrots do that when they see a food they are really excited about and would like to try.