Ok so I just got a sun conure on Sunday night so I have had him for two full days. Yesterday he was really aggressive and scared whenever I would try to take him out of the cage and he bit me so I decided to leave him alone.
I don't want him to bite me anymore so I tried to leave him alone today and leave him in his cage, so I interacted with him in there. He ate some treats from my hand and also I played some music and started dancing around and he was chirping, squawking, and climbing around flapping his wings. Was he excited or was he scared? I thought he was excited but I want to make sure.
Now he will squawk every time I leave the room or come back in, and he chirps at me while I am sitting in there and just talking to him, and I even got him to lick some peanut butter off my finger. Also whenever I walk up to his cage he comes to the perch that is closest to me/the door and he will clang his beak on the bars and shake his wings sometimes. I looked up some bird body language so I think that means he wants attention/to come out of the cage.
First, am I right about what he is trying to signal to me? Is he excited and wants attention or is he still scared and trying to scare me away?
Second, what do you think my next step should be? I want to get him out of the cage but I don't want to get bit again and I want to take baby steps. The person I got him from said he bit her also when she would take him out of the cage and could also be aggressive sometimes so I need to train him myself, this is not just new home behavior. I don't want to scare him too much, when I tried to teach him to step onto a stick this morning he got scared, but now that he seems to want attention and is more comfortable with me I am wondering what I should do. What is my next step for tomorrow?
One more thing to help you let me know if he is happy or not. I just put him to bed and he is grinding his beak, which is supposed to mean he is content. I hope that helped!
I don't want him to bite me anymore so I tried to leave him alone today and leave him in his cage, so I interacted with him in there. He ate some treats from my hand and also I played some music and started dancing around and he was chirping, squawking, and climbing around flapping his wings. Was he excited or was he scared? I thought he was excited but I want to make sure.
Now he will squawk every time I leave the room or come back in, and he chirps at me while I am sitting in there and just talking to him, and I even got him to lick some peanut butter off my finger. Also whenever I walk up to his cage he comes to the perch that is closest to me/the door and he will clang his beak on the bars and shake his wings sometimes. I looked up some bird body language so I think that means he wants attention/to come out of the cage.
First, am I right about what he is trying to signal to me? Is he excited and wants attention or is he still scared and trying to scare me away?
Second, what do you think my next step should be? I want to get him out of the cage but I don't want to get bit again and I want to take baby steps. The person I got him from said he bit her also when she would take him out of the cage and could also be aggressive sometimes so I need to train him myself, this is not just new home behavior. I don't want to scare him too much, when I tried to teach him to step onto a stick this morning he got scared, but now that he seems to want attention and is more comfortable with me I am wondering what I should do. What is my next step for tomorrow?
One more thing to help you let me know if he is happy or not. I just put him to bed and he is grinding his beak, which is supposed to mean he is content. I hope that helped!