It's 9:00 o'clock - do your fids know what time it is?

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Salty and I do our training sessions at 9:00PM, and its every night, because the rest of my family can plan their evening out. No one watches a tv show that starts at 9:00 or runs thru it, for example. I noticed that Salty gets unusually aggitated and loud , if it's like 8:55 or so and he doesn't see me preping the training area ( our coffee table ), clearing stuff off, or cutting up the pine nuts. If it goes past 9:00 by even a few minutes he really gets nuts. And this happens no matter what time he gets up, could be 10:00 AM or earlier or later. He always seems to know when it's 9PM ! So the question is, do any of your fids have this same inner clock? Some activity that you do the same time every day, and Holy Hell breaks loose if your late? Salty can see both a digital and an analog clock from his boing - could he be telling time from those? I wouldn't put it past this little bugger, he is so darn smart. Or am I just a little nuts, myself?
 

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Oliver used to have some concept of time. We didn't keep a fixed routine except for dinner. When I first met batchelor dad, Ollie thought the kitchen was just a room. But I'm a cook, and he learned that if I went in the kitchen good food would come out. I was home all day, in Nd out of the kitchen, and he paid no attention until it was about 5:00 in the evening. I go in kitchen, out of his line of sight, and he would perk right up. "He's totally interested in what you're doing in there". He would eventually insist on a ride to the food bowl. So it wasn't exactly like Salty, but he did have a sense of time and he knew when kitchen time was significant.

Does Salty stay up long after training? Is the routine training, cuddle-scratch time, bed? I know humans process and codify new information during sleep - do you think training Salty later, closer to sleep time, aids in consolidating the lessons?
 

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Well, first, yes, you're a bit more than a little nuts yourself. You're owned by an Amazon - so its allowed! :D

Our DYH,s bed time is 8:30 pm and on the chime of the Grandfather clock, he would either walk or fly to this night perch. All was working well till the time change came about. He was a grump for several weeks between new 7:30 and 8:30 pm. Once the new 8:30 would arrive, he would bee line to his night perch. Long Story Short: At least ours has an internal clock and he is a clock watcher!

Not sure you would want to stand on a soap box and proclaim this, since conformation was based on the confirming statements of yet another crazy Amazon person. :D

No, I'm not sure if our Amazon is counting or clock watching.
 

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Wait, Sailboat, there are NON-crazy Amazon people?

OMG, did I say that! Very very sorry for any miss-leading statements(s)! Amazon People are Crazy and it is best stated as: Crazy Amazon People, Noun, Verb, etc, etc, etc... :D


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Kentucky, our usual timetable is
Dinner: 7:30 - every one eats at the sound of the ships bell
Training time: 9:00
Salty roosting time: 9:15
Nitey Nite: 10:00

Once that ships bell goes off, Salty is all business. He will eat for an hour, especially if its chop. If he finishes early, then its play time until 8:50 or so , when i have to start chopping up the pine nuts we use for training. And he watches me like a hawk. After training , all he wants to do is roost on his hanging chain at the highest point. He's allowed to stay up untill 10, and then I have to retrieve him ( not always easy) and it's beddy bye time.
 

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And a Normal Grey Cockatiel named BB who came home with me on 5/20/2016.
I could swear Smokey could tell time..and it didn't matter what season..EVERY NIGHT at 10pm it was "good night...good night" and off to her house she'd go ( Her house got covered at night) If I dawdled..it was in no uncertain terms..GOOD NIGHT!! GOOD NIGHT!!! Until she got covered..
It was uncanny!


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During the summer time Loco would fly back to his sleep cage from 6:40-6:50 every single say, thats how I know what time it is, and now its just an hour earlier during winter. I think it also has to do with the light, but parrots have very unique and complex biological clocks, and research is showing how special they are! He also seems to be waiting by the door when I come home from something routine thats similar every day. Im sure he isnt watching that clock, they just are super good at programming routines.. they are creatures of routine and pattern and I think some of the reason some birds have behavioral problems when not kept on a consistent schedule is because they are basically programmed to live that way and sometime in their process of evolving developed this trait.
Heres a good article about this topic:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3309970/
 

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Archie has his target training at 7pm every night and he definitely knows when it's time.

The problem is he sometimes decides he wants to do it earlier and starts shouting. He'll stop when he realises he's not getting any, unless Chilli (Kakariki) starts as well and then there is no hope of them giving in!

After training he has some chill out time before we cover him at 8pm - I sometimes wonder if the days he shouts early he's just tired and wants to go to bed. But then he gets so excited about training I think he's just kidding me [emoji6]


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Fids definitely have an internal clock. My fids' internal clock is in the morning, Buzz leads the way in sounding off at 6:00 AM in the morning, Buddy and Venus follow his lead, no sleeping in here! Next, "Where's my breakfast!?!?!?!?" I brew coffee and make chop with "red bird" (Venus my Ekkie) on my shoulder, then my first cup of coffee. The morning routines me is ritual by fid in my home! They let me know if I'm slacking immediately.


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The Rbird follows a natural light schedule, so it figures that his instincts tell him when to wake up or get sleepy (which I call 'putting his bedfeathers on', getting fluffy).
Other than that, he gets sleepy and grouchy at about 1 in the afternoon, agrees to follow a chile pepper into his cage, naps, then wakes up at about 3, expects to come out.
Other than those landmarks, he does whatever he wants, whenever he wants, wherever he wants. Awwwww, but y'all knew that!
 

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My birds seem to go with the flow and not rely on human timekeeping.

My dogs, however, seem to know precisely when it is feeding time. They'll cut some slack in the morning, but they know when 3:30pm rolls along. They'll start pacing and haunting the kitchen!
 

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Our bird awakes and sleeps according to the sun. The missus places no schedules or demands on him whatsoever. The only thing the little monster seems to expect regularly is a nap every day after lunch for a couple of hours. He starts to yawn and fluff up and tuck one foot up and the missus gives him valet service to his cage. I like it because the house is quiet for a while and I can actually touch my wife without fear of The Ride of the Valkyrie. When he's done napping he starts to yell and out he comes again. :mad:
 

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Nigel tells me every night when it's bedtime, usually between 7-8 pm. He will fluff up and perch in his cage, not a peep even though doors are all open. He's ready to sleep. He stays quiet until we get up (am a very early riser) and he calls out to me when he hears me awake. He also knows when it's time to be in the outside cage on the front porch, he loves it out there. So smart..
 

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Griffin is pretty relaxed about times so far. He'll eat breakfast whenever I get up (6:45 weekdays, sometimes up to 8 on the weekends) and starts preparing for bed anywhere from 6:30-7:30 depending on what he's been up to during the day. He has one spot on his cage he goes to if I take too long to dim the lights though. He'll stare off into space until I turn the lights off, then he'll get ready to be put in his cage :)
 

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After reading some of the comments here, I think maybe my Amazon is not normal! He seems to have NO SENSE of time what so ever. There are some days where he is hollering for us to come get him up by 530am, and there are other days where I have to wake him up when I leave for work at 7am, and he is less than impressed with me. There are also days where we sleep in on the weekends, and we do not hear from him at all until we actually get up! Which could be as late as 930am.

He has no schedule with his eating either. Every morning I give him fresh veggies and fruit, and sometimes I will mix in a treat of his favorite cracker or snack. Some days he eats it all immediately, other days he doesn't even touch that bowl until later in the evening. He has his normal food in another bowl, that he has access to all day, and what I have noticed is that he will not eat unless the dog is eating. The dog will also not eat unless we eat. We (humans) have no schedule as to when we eat dinner, but without fault when we do, the dog and bird head to their food bowls and eat.

If we happen to not fix dinner and sit down to eat, the Amazon (Panama :) ) will eventually get hungry later in the evening around 8pm or so and start eating.
 

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