behavior advise

[Kittymc89]

Hello,

I am after some advise on my parrots current behavior. I have a Senegal parrot named Bonnie and a Love bird called Clyde.

I adopted Bonnie and Clyde from a care home where their owner had sadly passed away. i was given them as the birds where not being cared for properly and never got any interaction.
The Love bird was put in with Bonnie 3 years ago and i was advised to keep them together as Love bird tend to bond for life. Clyde is a wild Love bird.
Naturally to begin there were behavior issues but soon Bonnie became comfortable coming out her cage, stepping up onto my and my partners finger, sitting on our shoulder and allowing us to stroke her then we had suspicions that she had come into mating season as her behavior changed rapidly and she became very noisy and would bite in certain circumstances but this soon settled after a few week.
She has bonded very well with me and and rarely "mis-behaved" for me.
Then a couple of months ago she started becoming very noisy and aggressive towards my partner and would scream at him whenever he would enter the room, this has become increasingly worse over the past few months to the point where my partner no longer likes sitting in the room.
Also recently Bonnie has started becoming aggressive towards me, she will be sat on my shoulder talking away, putting her head down for a stroke etc and then out of nowhere start to attack aggressively, twice she has bitten my ear so bad she has actually pieced a hole and made it bleed quite a lot.

I have looked and researched solutions but non have proven to be successful or may work for a small amount of time before she figures out a way around it e.g someone suggested covering her when she is being noisy for up to 30 seconds and keep repeating. after a few days she just ignored the blanked and screamed even more when covered her. I have given her toys, let her out throughout the whole day but she will attack my partner if he walks past.

I very much love my birds and would like to try resolve this but i am getting to the point where this is my last resort before i will need to give her to someone else.
My partner has a 5year old who previously Bonnie has been very good and friendly with but now i feel paranoid that she may attack her.

If anyone has any advise please let me know.

Many thanks

[Pajarita]

Your bird sounds as if she is sexually frustrated (some people call it sexual toxicity but I don't agree with the term). Do you keep her to a strict solar schedule (up with dawn and to bed with dusk with no artificial lights on before or after twilight)? Do you free-feed her protein food (pellets, seeds, nuts, nutriberries, etc)? Do you decrease her protein intake during the resting season (winter)?

See, the thing is that parrots are not domesticated so, even though we trick them into imprinting to people (by taking the babies away from the parents and handfeeding them), their physiology remains identical to the wild birds and this means that they should not produce sexual hormones all year round or they become physically uncomfortable (birds sexual organs grow during breeding season and go dormant in the winter but only if they are kept in tune with the seasons) and terribly frustrated (there is no sexual release). This makes them aggressive as well as unpredictable and your bird's behaviors are typical of this problem.