Could Rico think the bathroom is a nest cavity?

Jumpingtadpoles

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We are looking for a bird for our family. It's very much like we are pregnant and waiting for the day the new addition comes to the family!
Rico has been quite find of the bathrooms since a few days into living here. So much so, that I started to allow him to sleep in there. But over time he has become slightly more aggressive when it came to getting him off the shower curtain rod. I often have to resort to the stick the retrieve him.
He didn't sleep very well last night. He was up quite a few times.
Today when I put him in there he stepped up there and immediately started lunging and hissing. So I went and got the stick and took him down. I put him in his cage. Closed it and walked away for a few minutes. When I came back he greeted me with "mom" so I asked him if he wanted to come out. I brought him back out, and put him back in the bathroom on the shower curtain rod. Again, he lunged and hissed.
So I went and got the stick again, forced him to step up and took him back to the cage. After a few minutes I went and got him. I brought him into the bedroom. As I was folding my laundry and hanging my clothes, going in and out of the closet (a walk in) he seemed desperate to go in.
Could this be hormonal, and he thinks it's a nest cavity? Or was he wanting to go to sleep And have me leave him alone?
Was I a jerk to put him in his cage to sleep tonight? I do not want to increase hormonal behaviour. And I've worried by his regurgitating for me that it could be making everything worse.
 

MonicaMc

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Sounds like it. It would be best to not allow him in the bathroom or any other small, enclosed space. Try to redirect his behaviors with training and foraging activities instead!
 

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