I think my budgie is showing homosexual behavior...

Hello everyone! I just joined the community hoping to get some advice for my 9 month old male budgie(A). A is my first budgie and he’s been with me for about 6 months.
He seemed lonely, so 2 weeks ago I brought a new male budgie(B) home with me. A immediately got obsessed with B, and this obsession seems to be getting worse. Considering A’s age I think he’s showing hormonal behavior, but I’m confused since both of my budgies are male.
These are some of A’s behaviors towards B
-He follows(chases) B 24/7
-He makes loud excited noises
-He bobs his head in front of B(his eyes are pinning while he does so)
-After he eats something he regurgitates everything he has in his crop to B until nothing comes out
-He frequently preens B
-He tries to step on B or grab B(usually the tail)

I haven’t seen A try to bite or attack B. I read that driving another budgie from food/water can be a sign of aggression but A doesn’t do that either, he just watches B eat or drink right in front of him. B seems uncomfortable when A follows him around and I saw him try to bite A when A stepped on him(A did not fight back, he just bobbed his head and made excited noises...)

Before I brought B home A was kinda obsessed with me too. When I left his room he would scream his lungs off until I came back. He’s super tamed too.

Does anybody know why A’s behaving like this? What should I do to calm A down?

I've not seen this in birds but have in dogs where a male would try to ride another male. Turned out it was not because the dogs were gay but one was trying to declare dominance over the other male, and perhaps this is what your bird is doing. Especially since you've had the one bird several months, it could be he's trying to let the new bird know that's his domain and he is king. Just declaring dominance. I think unless you separated the birds you will have to let it ride out it's course.

Sometimes my Budgie, Oliver, will mess with me too by quietly flying behind me, then quickly grazing my head with his wings on the way back to his cage. I think they like to feel they are the ones in control and in charge.

Budgies are very social, they are one if the few parrots experts and myself think you need to keep two. In nature they flock in the thousands. They have strong flock instinct.

You first guy is just super happy to have a freind!! Budgies do all those behavior with their flock freinds. My to male budgies do all these things, they don't try to mate. But they stay right next to eachother, talk, Bobb heads all.

Now parrots are a species that hav vaong history if documented same sex pair bonds, even in the wild, it in a breeding situation with opposite sex bonds opportunity. As do many other species.

But I think you budgie is just excited to have a freind, all that will calm down.

Jasmine333 said:

I've not seen this in birds but have in dogs where a male would try to ride another male. Turned out it was not because the dogs were gay but one was trying to declare dominance over the other male, and perhaps this is what your bird is doing. Especially since you've had the one bird several months, it could be he's trying to let the new bird know that's his domain and he is king. Just declaring dominance. I think unless you separated the birds you will have to let it ride out it's course.

Sometimes my Budgie, Oliver, will mess with me too by quietly flying behind me, then quickly grazing my head with his wings on the way back to his cage. I think they like to feel they are the ones in control and in charge.

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Thank you for your reply. Maybe they’re establishing the pecking order? I see you also have two male budgies, how did they behave when they were deciding their orders?

Laurasea said:

Budgies are very social, they are one if the few parrots experts and myself think you need to keep two. In nature they flock in the thousands. They have strong flock instinct.

You first guy is just super happy to have a freind!! Budgies do all those behavior with their flock freinds. My to male budgies do all these things, they don't try to mate. But they stay right next to eachother, talk, Bobb heads all.

Now parrots are a species that hav vaong history if documented same sex pair bonds, even in the wild, it in a breeding situation with opposite sex bonds opportunity. As do many other species.

But I think you budgie is just excited to have a freind, all that will calm down.

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Thank you for your reply, knowing that you have similar experiences is relieving. Do your parrots try to step on or grab each other with their feet too? I’m not sure if this is normal behavior or sign of aggression and it alarms me. Is it normal for a parrot to continuously follow/chase another one as well, and does it stop?
Could this possibly be establishing the pecking order? How did your birds behave in such time?

Agnes said:

Jasmine333 said:

I've not seen this in birds but have in dogs where a male would try to ride another male. Turned out it was not because the dogs were gay but one was trying to declare dominance over the other male, and perhaps this is what your bird is doing. Especially since you've had the one bird several months, it could be he's trying to let the new bird know that's his domain and he is king. Just declaring dominance. I think unless you separated the birds you will have to let it ride out it's course.

Sometimes my Budgie, Oliver, will mess with me too by quietly flying behind me, then quickly grazing my head with his wings on the way back to his cage. I think they like to feel they are the ones in control and in charge.

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Thank you for your reply. Maybe they’re establishing the pecking order? I see you also have two male budgies, how did they behave when they were deciding their orders?

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I just have one, but I do think when there are two they do work out which one is going to be the dominant one of the pair. That may be what your older bird is doing in establishing who is dominant, as well as welcoming the newcomer.

Laurasea said:

Budgies are very social, they are one if the few parrots experts and myself think you need to keep two. In nature they flock in the thousands. They have strong flock instinct.

You first guy is just super happy to have a freind!! Budgies do all those behavior with their flock freinds. My to male budgies do all these things, they don't try to mate. But they stay right next to eachother, talk, Bobb heads all.

Now parrots are a species that hav vaong history if documented same sex pair bonds, even in the wild, it in a breeding situation with opposite sex bonds opportunity. As do many other species.

But I think you budgie is just excited to have a freind, all that will calm down.

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I too have thought about getting another Budgie, and that may be ideal to have two, but many people as myself just have one and that bird if kept in a nice cage with plenty of toys can be very happy. Oliver keeps himself busy and is very happy. He has toys, mirrors, nice cage, plenty of food and clean water, so he's ok.