Is There Something Wrong?

Hi,

Little backstory, my nan used to keep all sorts of animals and she's now suffering from dementia so taking care of them has sort of fallen to me.

We have a yellow crested amazon (pretty sure that's the species), she's blind in one eye and is at least 50-70 years old judging by what little information I know.

She's quiet and the vet said she's overweight so we're about to change her diet onto pellets instead of seeds but every few days she'll make the same sounds frequently, about every 10-20 seconds and they don't sound like healthy noises. She makes chirping sounds and different noises daily but these only happen every so often.

The vet we have isn't a bird specialist and they said they don't know what it is.

Wondering if anyone here does?

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Hi there Cersey, and welcome to the forum.

Hmm, do you mean Yellow CROWN Amazon? There is no such thing as a Yellow Crested.

Does she look like THIS??


As for the noise she is making, it sounds like either begging sound or wanting to "make out" sounds. My Yellow Nape makes the same noises, depending on what mood she is in.

Sounds like she is just clucking, a content amazon sound

JerseyWendy said:

Hi there Cersey, and welcome to the forum.

Hmm, do you mean Yellow CROWN Amazon? There is no such thing as a Yellow Crested.

Does she look like THIS??


As for the noise she is making, it sounds like either begging sound or wanting to "make out" sounds. My Yellow Nape makes the same noises, depending on what mood she is in.

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Oh, that's odd. The vet specially said crested but they said themselves they aren't specialists for parrots so could easily be wrong.

I took a quick picture, excuse her feathers it's just after her morning spray and she's not too fond of the ipad.



Begging for what? I don't think it's food, she has seeds in there all the time (that'll change when we finally locate this new pellet diet) and she has fruit she likes daily.

That is one VERY pretty Blue Fronted Amazon lady!!!

Begging for attention??? Begging to be let out? Begging to be played with??

Like I said, my Yellow Nape makes the identical sound, and she's as healthy as a horse.

JerseyWendy said:

That is one VERY pretty Blue Fronted Amazon lady!!!

Begging for attention??? Begging to be let out? Begging to be played with??

Like I said, my Yellow Nape makes the identical sound, and she's as healthy as a horse.

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It could be played with.

She gets attention and people talk to her throughout the day but the only person who ever used to physically let her out and play is my nan. But the bird is quite hostile to anyone except my nan, which is understandable.

I'm not sure about toys for her, the vet said parrots like to destroy things so we got some cardboard bits and she seems rather uninterested by them even when we hid bits of cucumber in there.

We recently had a willow tree in the garden collapse/break so we put a cut up bit of branch in the cage for the bird to climb on and chew at. She has bells, hanging bits of wood etc but not sure what else there is that the bird can play with.

You can't go near her without her snapping at you so I don't think taking her out to play would be a great option. To get her into the carrier to go to the vet was a lesson in how hard a parrot can bite and scream and flap.

Any suggestions would be welcome

Does she have a swing? Many Amazons LOVE their swings.

Then there are boings. Some Amazons like them and others want nothing to do with them.

And I'm sure it won't be easy for either her OR you once she changes homes, but with a whole lot of TLC it's quite possible she will come around.

Someone needs remedial vet school...

If you're going to bluff, you would think he would pick a species that actually exists in nature!!!



Amazons are pair bond birds. In nature they pair up, and mate for life. In captivity, if allowed to over bond, they will form that same pair bond with a person. This bird is over bonded with your Grandmother.

Socializing them with multiple people is a huge priority with pair bond species, Amazons, Macaws & Conures.

Where did you get the info that the bird is blind in one eye? How did they determine that?

You need to start over from square one with this bird, taming, step up, no biting, socialization, socialization, and more socialization...

My BFA would go to anyone... she didn't come that way, and she was 35 when I got her.

I once rehabbed a 60+ year old male DYH who was cagebound and extremely set in his ways. It can be done. You are looking at a 4 to 16 week project here.