Hungery?

[marie83]

Do your parrots let you know when they want food?

Ollie my green cheek will run round the floor on his cage or outside his cage blowing kisses constantly with the rhythem of a woodpecker! Alternitively if I have accidently left the clicker, target stick or anything I have used for training previously lying around he will go and start throwing them about like a toy or pecking at them...

Harlie rattles her food bowls up and down or sits there looking in them, then calling to you and looking right back down into them again over and over until dinner is served lol. It's almost like she is saying "hello, look, they are empty you know...."

[terri]

Mine seem to stand at their dish and give you the stare down

[LPolliard]

Chico wants to share what ever I am eating and will help himself.

[liz]

Basic food dishes are always full. No one gets hungry.

Rambo say "huh" or "is that good?' When he wants what someone is eating.

Myrtle says "mmmmm" or just tries to take her share out of the dish.

Cockatiels and the Lovie don't get to beg because they are not out. They have dry food in silo feeders and I use a baby chick waterer with a pint jar for water. They get hand outs all day on a shelf that I built into their feeding cage. Whatever I have of vegies, fruit or cereals they get a share.

[Eurycerus]

Nika has never expressed hunger to me, even on the weekends when I'm home all day with her. In the morning though when I take her food bowl out to wash it and put new food in she will stand on the ring for the food bowl and chatter at me, so she's probably hungry and impatiently waiting for it to return. She has actually yelled at me before when I didn't return fast enough.

[Grey_Moon]

She 'clicks' its a soft noise that apparently is universal in greys when something is tasty or good when she sees food she wants.

For gerneral 'hey lemme out! feed me! gimme!' its a cockatiel flock call at about 5x the volume
She does this because she knows it's the one sound that got my old cockatiel any attention (even negative) or anything he wanted.

I wasn't always the master parrot guardian