Kili Making Bubbling Sound, Should I be alarmed?

[alight15]

I was watching a PBS special with parrots and I noticed a noise similar to kili..
I looked it up and..
Congratulations!! I believe your parrot is CLUCKING!!

here's some videos of it:




yup..you have the best clucking parrot video on youtube
it all makes sense now,e.g. the body movement when the sound is being made(look up "bukk bukk" on youtube if you want to see a chicken do it)

and I'm sure you're gonna ask about the timing/reason so here's a snipit from...someplace( ) written by the owner of a Amazon parrot:

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During mating season she frequently draws my attention to the open top drawer of the dresser. She sits peering into it and then clucking at me, as if urging me to consider moving into it with her and setting up a nest.

Winnie also likes to subjugate our cat, Katy, a formerly feral Burmese mix. They have had three or four encounters on the roof of the garage next door, where Winnie alights before flying through our bedroom window.
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Also,to be thorough..cause i'm like that:

Lately my one-year-old white-capped pionus has been making strange clucking sounds. While he is doing this, he is also shaking his wings without opening them and pointing his tail in the air. Sometimes he hooks his beak on the front of the cage while perched.

-- Denise, Butler, Pa.

THANKS for the question! The behavior you describe can mean many different things. It's possible he simply may be trying to get your attention. On the other hand, the tail-in-the-air posture, trembling wings and the clucking point strongly suggest a female bird in the mood. Are you sure your pionus is not a "she"? One year is a bit early for sexual maturity, but she's giving all the signs.

[tattoo]

i am new to this forum so hello. i have a Senegal who i have heard make a very similar sound. sounds wet, kinda like a sneeze and i have sometimes even gotten a tiny spray of liquid when he does it. I was not concerned until you mentioned it i don't think it is anything though.

I do have to say that when Tattoo gets in his "happy man mood" he drops his wings and runs back and forth up my husband or my arm making a weird noise. his wings are dropped really far down and he just is so excited.

Michael, what part of the country do you live in that does not have an avian vet?