Curiosity and CAGs

So my 3 yo Perjo is growing everyday, her vocabulary and her courage. At least 6-7 times a week she takes flight looking for me around the house. If she lands and she isn’t confident to take off again she simply climbs her way to the next vantage point looking for me. While it’s cute and interesting it’s also a bit nerve racking because of the inherent danger of her rough landings.


Are Greys typically this curious? I’d say probably 60% of the time I go to second floor to shower I either hear her in flight or get out of the shower to see her just outside the bathroom.

Yes at least for my greys it has always been!


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Timneh will fly upstairs to me if she hears the shower start. She will whistle to me to find out where I am and zoom here she comes. I'd say Timneh is a bit of a velcro bird though. She never wants me to be too far out of sight. I can usually get a little alone time when shes out if I give her a treat and put her in front of one of her TV shows. Otherwise I get an escort every where i go including the bathroom.

Sometime I think they do it on purpose ...
( the rough landing)

Japie used to be really clumsy and crashland- but he got really good at normal landings now. (it only took him about three years of very frequent / multiple flights a day)
Appie is a great flyer and loves to experiment with crashlanding in tight spots atm (where there is no room for a controlled backwinging etc.)
Lately when she and Japie are not getting along she will dramatically crash, just in case I missed the fact that "it was all his fault".
(He used to bowl over the macaw, and I would react strongly-- so she wants that as well?)
She can land very softly and controlled when she wants to...so it is definitely some communication going on.


Yes...they are that curious...
Japie even follows me to the toilet - he loves the flushing part of the procedure.
(just my luck)
and I had to fish Appie out of the washingmachine a few weeks ago.


The flying and landing will improve, the curiosity...will stay that way

I don’t think of Buzz as curious, I guess I would say independent. He is hesitant in going new places on his own but has no problem flying from his cage to go to places he has been taken by us before. He isn’t always trying to find us either. Sometimes he will come sit close to us and just watch. His favorite hang out is the bathroom. He has claimed it and will come after you if you try to enter when he’s in there. I think it’s because there USED to be a rug in there that he shredded. Now it’s his territory.

Agreed with all, they are flock animals of course so they will like to be around his/her flock. Enzo is also fascinated with the bathroom and will hang out there for an hour or so as long as she knows im close. The occational 'hey' whistle is generally all she needs to be comfortable.


Why has Perjo got 'clumsy' flight, is she simply still learning the house/flight? Enzo will fly around happily, she can turn around in her own wing span, she can fly near vertically but doesnt like flying down, but she can if encouraged. OOI, ive heard flying down is a good skill for a parrot to have in case they escape, fly to a high tree and then get frightened of flying back down.

Perjo was barbering some of the wing feathers causing problems flying. I’m sure she will master flight soon enough.

Ok. They will soon grow back, they are excellent fliers but not very fast.... hm i say not fast, but i havent a very big house, maybe she does needs more room to gain and also lose pace. Shae can fly in circles pretty damned fast.

First of all my Bella is a big chicken and scared of anything new so curiosity is not a driving motivation for her.

In her first 6 months with us she did make plenty of bad landings. Not any more. If she flys somewhere and all is not right she makes a 180 and goes back where she started from.

Her only sign of curiosity is following us around the house. When I go into the kitchen she will fly onto my shoulder to watch what I am doing. If I go into my bedroom and don't come out right away she will follow to se what I am doing.

Smokey knew how to fly,and even though she was clipped,she still got lift. One summer day after a wellness check/grooming,we were outside in the back yard. She hated hands (she was a wild caught and must have been traumatized by whom ever stole her from her nest) and when I asked her to step up...she took flight! Even with a clip! She only got about a foot and a half up BUT made it out of the yard,across the STREET and landed in a small bush at the end of my neighbors driveway..while another neighbors CAT started to stalk!! I screamed at the damn cat and he took off in the other direction and I made it across the street and pulled Smokes from that bush.
She NEVER went outside again,unless she was in a carrier or cage

As far as curiousity,she loved to explore. She'd walk the hall to my bedroom and I could hear her mumbling,only yo find her behind my bedroom door talking to the "other" parrot in the full length mirror.
She'd walk the halls to the kitchen looking for me and Amy. When my friend Mariann lived with me for a spell Smokes would again walk down the hallway and bang on Mariann's bedroom door saying "hello?...hello??" ( she loved Mariann lol) She'd climb my bookcase and try and sit on top of a book...My computer desk had cubbys where she'd pull my stuff out and throw it on the floor then get into the cubby and watch YT vids with me. I'd find her in the bathroom or my bedroom..ya she was a curious wanderer lol.


Jim

Curious, absolutely . . .
Even though Levi is afraid of his own shadow, he is into everything. If I take my eyes off of him for a second he is into something he shouldn't be.
So b/c of this, if I or my hubby can't have eyes on him he has to be caged for his own safety.

bigfellasdad said:

Agreed with all, they are flock animals of course so they will like to be around his/her flock. Enzo is also fascinated with the bathroom and will hang out there for an hour or so as long as she knows im close. The occational 'hey' whistle is generally all she needs to be comfortable.


Why has Perjo got 'clumsy' flight, is she simply still learning the house/flight? Enzo will fly around happily, she can turn around in her own wing span, she can fly near vertically but doesnt like flying down, but she can if encouraged. OOI, ive heard flying down is a good skill for a parrot to have in case they escape, fly to a high tree and then get frightened of flying back down.

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Not sure why she’s clumsy, she can navigate the various curves of my house OK but she typically flies in a straight line and sometimes hits beak first into the blinds or the wall. She’s a bit behind the curve in flying in my opinion bc when she was 14 mos she chewed some flight feathers and they took a year to come back fully.

Do not worrie, when Japie got here he had not been flying for at least 10 years / maybe longer/ maybe never. (I got him and the lady of the house mentioned "he never flies" -> he ended up in the curtains the second day he was here)
It may take your bird a while to get (back) into it - but as long as there is curiosity...it will happen!
It took Japie almost 3 years to figure out he could go *flap flap* for very short distances (from the floor up the couch etc.) atm it is his favorite way of exploring... flaphop...rummage..flapflap....explore some more... hop flap... fly back to the cage for a snack...flapping away again).
He started with the longer stretches first!


I know most freeflighttraining is the other way around, but I just let him do what he was ready to do, by himself.
(so he went from straight lines and crashes, to straight lines en slight curves- still crashing, learned how to backwing, sharper turns, learned how to land propperly, turning on a wingtip, flaphopflights ...)
Of course some recall got thrown in somewhere, but never as official training (on purpose).