Concerned too owner

[Wolf]

Any thing I can do to help.

[Pajarita]

That is interesting to know, and new to me. Mimi, the Yellow Nape Amazon, here at home clicks very softly and slow when she is content. She is still wigs out sometimes just out of the blue, I think it is flashbacks, but that is another issue. Any way, she will be sitting on her perch with her eyes closed or half closed and she will click very quietly and in the time it takes me to breathe in once she will click this way twice, so in a complete breath, in and out, there are 4 to 5 clicks.
Mostly when she is angry she screams and hisses. How does it sound when they click when angry? I will watch for it.

I think maybe you are using the word clicking for grinding. Beak grinding is a sign of contentment for all parrot species but it's different from clicking. Grinding is when they slowly and deliberately move the tip of the lower beak against the inside of the top beak and it makes a short but continuous and repetitious kind of sound of two surfaces been rubbed against one another (it sounds like two smooth rocks to me). Clicking in toos is also sound and movement because they rapidly open and close their beaks making a clicking sound when the two parts meet (very similar to a human making a quick chewing motion and thereby clicking their upper and lower teeth together - I click my teeth together at the same rhythm Freddie does and he loves it! He puts his face real close to mine with his beak touching my mouth as he opens and closes it as well as feeling my jaw moving when I do it -this is one of his favorite ways of showing love). Amazons also make a clicking noise but it's done when they are annoyed (it's kind of a warning bordering in ultimatum) and there is no movement in the beak, it comes from their throat and it sounds a bit like a child imitating the sound of a machine gun (kk kk kk kk -I've never been any good at onomatopoeia).

[Pajarita]

Actually, I would say that the amount of protein depends on the species and that toos need a bit higher than others but freefeeding the high protein is never a good thing because, if you do and regardless of whether the species you are feeding can withstand higher, you will always end up feeding too much for the simple reason that, as parrots are not natural seed-eaters (like canaries and finches would be, for example), they are programmed by nature to gorge on it when found so they always fill themselves up with protein and eat too little produce.

I feed many different species and, from budgies to cockatoos, they all eat the same thing: gloop with raw produce for breakfast and high protein for dinner so what I do is give them a different seed mix and add nuts for the higher protein ones so my cockatoos get the same gloop and produce everybody gets in the morning and the same mix of cockatiel seed mix (with striped sunflowers) combined with a small psittacine one (safflower based) all the other larger species get BUT they also get nuts - it could be two almonds or two pistachios or a whole walnut, like that (nuts are better than seeds). Oh, and they LOVE greens! So much so that even though they love the gloop, they usually go for the leafy green before anything else (Freddie actually climbs down and steals a leaf from the bowl before I dole the food out on paper plates)

[Wolf]

No, I am well aware of the beak grinding sounds as both Kookooloo and Kiki do it. The one that Mimi is doing would be kind of like you tapping two stones together slowly.

[Pajarita]

Maybe that's the one they call 'clucking'.

[Wolf]

Beats the hell out of me!

[Pajarita]

Yes, I am not so good at describing their vocalizations or figuring out which ones correspond to the nouns one finds out there but I know that clicking is the rapid one they do when they are annoyed because I've seen it referred as such many times and my zons do it every time they have to go into a cage.

[Wolf]

Right now, Mimi just screams and/ or hisses and threatens to bite. She hasn't bit anyone, but she threatens.

[liz]

(not with amazons which click when they are mad )[/quote]

No one told Myrtle. In the evening before I carry her back to her perch she sits on my shoulder making little mouth noises. No one else hears her and I didn't know why she did it.

Myrtle only gets angry when I tell her no too many times. Then she just throws a tantrum.

[Wolf]

Right, throwing a tantrum would be a good way of describing Mimi when she gets mad.