I'm so confused

[Harpmaker]

My silly Corsair has always perched on the wire coop-cup holder of her cage to sleep. When I first got her I left the food bowl there because I didn't know any better, so I supposed it reminded her of a nest. However, she always sleeps leaning forward with her head below her feet.

There is a much higher perch in the cage that is made of calcium. When she chews it near the support, I tighten it, and when it gets too short I replace it. She only chews it during breeding and molting seasons. When guests stay the night she may sleep on the calcium perch. When they leave she goes back to the wire. (It was the calcium one she fell off of recently).

The dowel perch that came with the cage was replaced with an NU perch and a dragonwood perch while I carved divots out of the dowel to make it foot friendly. They have all been slightly higher than the wire, and she uses them, but does not sleep on them. The carved dowel was returned, with no sleeping change.

I tried to save her feet by looping a bungee above the wire so she physically could not get her feet on it. That worked, but she chewed the bungee-just a little, and I kept it trimmed, but it didn't seem worth the possibility of an impacted digestive system. I took out the bungee and she moved back to the wire.

Now, for the last two days, for no reason I can find, Corsair has voluntarily moved off of her favorite wire cup-holder.......on to the OTHER cupholder across the cage. What is she trying to tell me?

And why sleep head down? Does she think she's part bat?

[Wolf]

To tell the truth, I have no idea. Maybe she thinks that with more blood to her head and brain that she will have more vivid dreams.

[Pajarita]

That's a good one, Wolf! As to the why of things, well, parrots are quirky. I know it sounds just plain simplistic but it's the only explanation we have for many weird behaviors they display. They have very distinct preferences that make no sense to us (a nice perch HAS to be more comfortable than a wire, right?) but I am sure they do have their reasons for them. I tell you, they are very much like people... some of us like weird things, too - I know I do and, believe it or not, my husband actually likes skunk smell -now is that weird or what?!)