What does it mean when she bobs her head?

bettietheripper · May 30, 2015

Hello everyone, I have a couple of questions about my 1.5 year old sun conure.

She screams for me when she can't see me, and when I finally hold her, she goes up to my ear and pulls on the lobe a few times. She does this every morning. Is this good or bad behavior?

When she chooses to get inside my shirt (so many destroyed shirts

) she will starts bobbing her head, while making chirpy noises and rubbing her beak on the shirt material. She does regurgitate while doing this, but has only "offered me" some like once or twice, and she does this daily. Is this nesting behavior?

Lastly...what the heck is she doing when she bobs her head rapidly?? :33:

PickleMeDickles · May 31, 2015

I have 2 Suns, 1 is a bobber and 1 isn't. I am no expert by any means, so please take my advice lightly, but I believe that the bobbing is a sign of affection and/or excited. My Sun Winston LOVES to wrestle and when he gets really excited he runs around like a wound up toy bobbing away. As far as the ear lobe pulling, if it doesn't hurt I would just accept that it is her way of showing affection or a greeting of some type. If it gets harder then I would discourage it.

It seems that Suns are a "line of sight" type characters. If they are on you they are happy, if they can see you they are usually "ok", if they can't see you they definitely scream. The only way I have been able to "solve" this is to keep them "in sight" as much as possible. Also, if they are having a screaming tizzy, I will wait for a moment of silence (however brief - lol) and take them out and spend at least 30 minutes with them of really quality time (I usually put a towel down on the couch and spread out toys, play peek-a-boo by tossing a light towel on someone and they love to "figure out" how to get out, we wrestle and all sorts of other stuff). After we are done I can put them in their cages and they are good for at least 3 hours.

Also, Suns are notorious for belting it out in the morning and late afternoon. Just a Sun thing I guess.

Pipa is beautiful and by the gleam in her eye you can tell she is a character! Good luck.

-Jen

bettietheripper · Jun 1, 2015

PickleMeDickles said:
I have 2 Suns, 1 is a bobber and 1 isn't. I am no expert by any means, so please take my advice lightly, but I believe that the bobbing is a sign of affection and/or excited. My Sun Winston LOVES to wrestle and when he gets really excited he runs around like a wound up toy bobbing away. As far as the ear lobe pulling, if it doesn't hurt I would just accept that it is her way of showing affection or a greeting of some type. If it gets harder then I would discourage it.

It seems that Suns are a "line of sight" type characters. If they are on you they are happy, if they can see you they are usually "ok", if they can't see you they definitely scream. The only way I have been able to "solve" this is to keep them "in sight" as much as possible. Also, if they are having a screaming tizzy, I will wait for a moment of silence (however brief - lol) and take them out and spend at least 30 minutes with them of really quality time (I usually put a towel down on the couch and spread out toys, play peek-a-boo by tossing a light towel on someone and they love to "figure out" how to get out, we wrestle and all sorts of other stuff). After we are done I can put them in their cages and they are good for at least 3 hours.

Also, Suns are notorious for belting it out in the morning and late afternoon. Just a Sun thing I guess.

Pipa is beautiful and by the gleam in her eye you can tell she is a character! Good luck.

-Jen

Thanks for the reply!

Yeah, she does the lobe biting/pulling as soon as she sees me in the morning, and sometimes throughout the day, especially when I take her outside to play.

I've also noticed that she stops what she is doing when I tap my fingers on any surface...she's almost hypnotized by it. Today I pretended to chase her with my fingers, still tapping the table, and she would stay still, then come towards my hand, and put her footsie on it, as if to tell me to stop.

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