parrot kinda shy?

My parrot is an african ringneck

I've had my parrot for exactly a month.

I think like 2 weeks into him being with me in my room, he would sing quite a bit, but then it kinda stopped?

He chirps every now and then, but if I am awake and with him in my room he doesn't sing.

But he sings A LOT when I am not home.

Is he just shy or do es he hate me

He is probably still getting used to you.
1 month together is really short (I know it can seem like a lifetime) - every time a new parrot comes to live here it takes them a few weeks to get settled and about 3-4 months to get really comfortable and be themselves.

One month is too short! I know, I was surprised too. Cairo was so friendly, stepping up and recall training, after one month, but I didn't realise how chatty he was!

Trust me, I told myself at 1.5 months, "It's ok if Cairo only ever says, Hello.'" Now at almost 3 months, he's chatting up a storm whenever there's ambient noise, even when we're in the room, stifling our laughter when he starts laughing.

He's still shy when it comes to being in front of strangers. At first, he wouldn't talk much when we were outside the house. Now, we're socialising him more, and he'll even start practicing his speech in public if people are far enough away from him (he only needs about 2 metres to feel comfortable enough to practice).

what you need to wait for is when they are going to bed and the cage is beside your bed and they won't shut up! Thats when they experiment with talking in my experience. Try out new phrases etc.

Clark talks all the time but he tries out new stuff when we can't see each other. He (your bird) might just be working on his new routine. Try talking when you have him tucked in for the night, I'll bet he talks a deal more and experiments more.

Or not, every bird is their own unique character but I wouldn't worry. Once a bird figures out they get more attention by talking they tend to lean towards what gets positive reenforcement.

Yes, it's far too soon to be able to judge how she is going to normally act. It can take some birds months to years to fully settle-in to a new home, they're all different...You're still basically a "stranger" to her, so she may very well not be talking around you purposely...Try talking to her when you're out of the room, see if that works...

My Bowie talks constantly too, but when I'm downstairs and he's upstairs, or vice-versa, he always starts yelling to me loudly over and over again, and then as soon as I come back to him he settles down; he's actually trying to keep contact with me when he can't see me but he knows I'm still in the house, birds do that, they "contact call" to their flockmates, just like they do in the wild. Birds who are in the same flock are constantly "contact calling" their flockmates who are in the same tree or a neighboring tree, just to make sure they're still with them and haven't been left behind, killed by a predator, etc.

She'll come around, it is just going to take time. I don't know your bird's prior history, but something else to think about is relocating her cage from your bedroom to the "main room" of your home, where all the people that live in your house spend most of their time when they're home. I know this might not be possible, but with a new bird, at least for the first few months, it's a really good idea to keep their cage in the room of the home where the "action" is, because simply having people sitting in the same room as the bird, walking back and forth past the cage a lot, hearing multiple different people talking to each other, etc., all of this helps tremendously with socializing the bird and helping them to feel safe, secure, and comfortable around people...Some people put their new bird's "main cage", or large cage with their toys, in the "main room" of the house, usually the living room, family room, TV room, den, etc., so that the bird is always around people when they are home, and then they buy a much smaller, cheaper cage to be their bird's "sleeping cage" and locate their sleeping-cage in their bedroom. The sleeping-cage should be much smaller than the bird's main-cage, it should not have any toys in it at all, at the most maybe a swing and one, single perch, and a water dish. That's it. It only needs to be large enough for the bird to be able to open it's wings up without touching the bars, that's it. That way the bird spends all day being around the people in the house, hearing them talk, eating with them, etc., and then at night they can be moved to their bedroom to be only with them. Just another thing you can do that will help your bird settle-in, start the taming process and socialization process, and still allow you to be able to bond-closely with your bird.

EllenD said:

Yes, it's far too soon to be able to judge how she is going to normally act. It can take some birds months to years to fully settle-in to a new home, they're all different...You're still basically a "stranger" to her, so she may very well not be talking around you purposely...Try talking to her when you're out of the room, see if that works...

My Bowie talks constantly too, but when I'm downstairs and he's upstairs, or vice-versa, he always starts yelling to me loudly over and over again, and then as soon as I come back to him he settles down; he's actually trying to keep contact with me when he can't see me but he knows I'm still in the house, birds do that, they "contact call" to their flockmates, just like they do in the wild. Birds who are in the same flock are constantly "contact calling" their flockmates who are in the same tree or a neighboring tree, just to make sure they're still with them and haven't been left behind, killed by a predator, etc.

She'll come around, it is just going to take time. I don't know your bird's prior history, but something else to think about is relocating her cage from your bedroom to the "main room" of your home, where all the people that live in your house spend most of their time when they're home. I know this might not be possible, but with a new bird, at least for the first few months, it's a really good idea to keep their cage in the room of the home where the "action" is, because simply having people sitting in the same room as the bird, walking back and forth past the cage a lot, hearing multiple different people talking to each other, etc., all of this helps tremendously with socializing the bird and helping them to feel safe, secure, and comfortable around people...Some people put their new bird's "main cage", or large cage with their toys, in the "main room" of the house, usually the living room, family room, TV room, den, etc., so that the bird is always around people when they are home,

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My family is weird and its very rare for us to be in the living room or dining room all together. Like VERY rare. I'm always home as I rarely go outside (huge introvert) lol so the main room basically is my bedroom. He spends most of the day with me unless I work. I will be moving his cage in my room so that he is able to see the TV. That might help a bit.

But yeah. My bedroom is the best option.

clark_conure said:

what you need to wait for is when they are going to bed and the cage is beside your bed and they won't shut up! Thats when they experiment with talking in my experience. Try out new phrases etc.

Clark talks all the time but he tries out new stuff when we can't see each other. He (your bird) might just be working on his new routine. Try talking when you have him tucked in for the night, I'll bet he talks a deal more and experiments more.

Or not, every bird is their own unique character but I wouldn't worry. Once a bird figures out they get more attention by talking they tend to lean towards what gets positive reenforcement.

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Hi my post was more about him chirping! Not talking.
Although he does mimic a lot

He copies my dogs when they bark and the neighbors dogs hahaha