Question-scared birds after Re-arranging entire bird room

My birds room has had their particular cages in same spot in the bird room for a few months.

Today I totally re-arranged the room, ceiling rope rings, lighting and cages to different parts of the room, never bothered them in past. But this is a new remodeled room now.

Tonite my Zons refuse to sleep, Poppie especially, as she seems a bit scared to death of something. I image it's an angle of shadows that can be projected differently as she refuses to have her cage covered at nite, and prefers to sleep outside of her cage on her rope ring. However she actually managed to climb down her cage, open the bird room door ( which I leave
open a tiny bit, and then flew through house to couch where My wife and I were. She was chatting up a storm on my shoulder about something in a matter of fact tone, and kept looking at the ceiling. We don't have Ghosts, though the german Victorian house is 150 years old.

So when I tell her it's ok, you can sit here a bit and calm down, she'll repeat " It's ok, don't be scared"...

My Grey is also a bit uneasy tonite as well....My other Zon is pacing as well around her cage....this is nearly Midnite when all began.

Could it be the rearranging of the room and their cages? Never affected them before. Any Idea anyone???

As you've found out, many birds don't like change, even, as it seems your guys are, to the point of possible paranoia.....

I know of a caique that found a helium filled party balloon so frightening that it would not go in its cage for almost a week, until the balloon deflated and fluttered to the floor and there was a conure that would hide in its cage because a small, gold foil wrapped gift had been placed on a shelf overlooking the bird's cage.....

If you did not add anything to the hanging items, you might want to carry your birds, one by one around the room & see what seems to be bothering them.....

Good luck.....

Parrots are sensitive creatures, and as natural prey animals they have a strong prey drive (i.e. especially fearful of the unfamiliar, since the unfamiliar may eat them). I've always found it important to make Kiwi "face his fears" so things like changes in his environment or moving or new objects aren't so frightening. Obviously, that's a continual process but he's a very fearless bird overall.

Had it been Kiwi who did this, I would have given him some kisses, took him back and given him a treat and if he was REALLY afraid, would have sat with him and reassured him a bit but eventually left to let him sort himself out. Also, they have better vision than us. Sometimes it takes some intense looking around to see what subtle thing is so terribly frightening to them so we can help them confront the fear of it. After several years of not really letting Kiwi flip out over things ad helping him confront them instead, we moved cross country with him into a vastly different area and it's like he never noticed that huge change.

I would suggest you really take a look from your birds perspective at whats so disturbing and help them confront it (with your "protection" and reassurance) so become less easily 'excitable' over change

Since your birds haven't reacted like this in the past, maybe it's the total transformation of the room that's causing them to complain. Hopefully they'll adjust quickly and after some time to explore the changes they'll get back to normal soon.

Poor Poppie, repeating, "It's ok, don't be scared", that is so sweet.

My Victorian house is 107. No ghosts.

Yep. Change isn't always a good thing, unless they are used to it.

Zons always recoil in horror at the sight of new things... they generally get over it quickly... a lot of times you just have to wander around the room introducing them to new things.

weco said:

As you've found out, many birds don't like change, even, as it seems your guys are, to the point of possible paranoia.....

I know of a caique that found a helium filled party balloon so frightening that it would not go in its cage for almost a week, until the balloon deflated and fluttered to the floor and there was a conure that would hide in its cage because a small, gold foil wrapped gift had been placed on a shelf overlooking the bird's cage.....

If you did not add anything to the hanging items, you might want to carry your birds, one by one around the room & see what seems to be bothering them.....

Good luck.....

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Thanks...normally they are quite good about it...especially Poppie, the BFA, nothing scares her. But she was literally frightened. We checked the room out today, and that's when I noticed the 2 new pictures my wife put up. We have every issue of bird talk magazine and my wife saves the center folds of birds from issues and frames them. Well she put up a couple framed ones and when the light hits it just right it must of scared her. Well we moved it and she's much happier.

Birdman666 said:

Yep. Change isn't always a good thing, unless they are used to it.

Zons always recoil in horror at the sight of new things... they generally get over it quickly... a lot of times you just have to wander around the room introducing them to new things.

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Turned out to be a new picture my wife took out of the center of Bird talk magazine and framed it...was lori parrot picture. Hmmm wonder if in the wild certain parrots are not fond of other certain parrots.

Interesting question now....sparks my curiosity.

Allee said:

Since your birds haven't reacted like this in the past, maybe it's the total transformation of the room that's causing them to complain. Hopefully they'll adjust quickly and after some time to explore the changes they'll get back to normal soon.

Poor Poppie, repeating, "It's ok, don't be scared", that is so sweet.

My Victorian house is 107. No ghosts.

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Actually turned out to be pictures of Lori's we put up and gotten out of old issues of Bird talk center fold...Poppie was not at all fond of the lori pic's.

Yeah, I had to bring her out with me into the living room as she was chatting a mile a second about something in the room....When I introduce her to new things, I always tell her it's ok, don't be scare...and she's picked that up and understands the meaning now.
She dose have a very very big volcabulary....some 1300 words at least. My other BFA is 2 years younger and her volcabulary is about a 100 words. Poppie was very well trained by previous owner that had some 17 birds, 8 of which were amazons. 4 were Macaws, a few too's, a hawkhead, and few others. She suffered a stroke and all her birds were taken to a rescue center, I took on poppie. Her reputation of well trained birds is known by many so her birds were snatched up very quickly and rehomed. I feel lucky to have such a very talkative bird in Poppie.

No Ghost here either...I'm not a big believer in ghosts, but or last house 110 yrs, old, several years back, had a ghost or something a bit strange. Our 3 dogs stood at bottom of stairs looking up the stairs
and growling...nothing was up there. Another time a picture flew off the wall. Made my hair stand on end.

Did someone say ghosts? For years, and still in many places, I have to sleep with a nightlight, can just feel there is something not right. Years ago we stayed in a house that was haunted by an english soldier by the name of Dwayne. He thought it was fun to wake me up every morning at 4:00. Never saw him but knew he was standing in my bedroom door! That place stayed empty for years after we moved out! Who knows what animals can see that we can't?

Birdman666 said:

Yep. Change isn't always a good thing, unless they are used to it.

Zons always recoil in horror at the sight of new things... they generally get over it quickly... a lot of times you just have to wander around the room introducing them to new things.

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They seem to be doing fine since I took down the bird pictures....huh, didn't think a picture would be that big a deal.

Yesterday in asheville NC it got to be 70 degrees, so I took some time to take the birdcage outside for a real good cleaning, I put my Hahns Macaw on his play stand inside while I cleaned the cage and when I was done and dried the cage off I brought the bird outside to his cage and put him in the cage. This was the first time my Hahns has been outside for any prolonged period of time. As long as I was by his cage he was ok, but as soon as I left the cage area, he sounded off with his panic call. This is going to take some time as I can see.