Orange winged amazon bites me whenever I change my clothes

texsize said:

I get the same response from my Yellow Nape.
Sumer clothes is short pants and a blue or grey T shirt.
Winter is sweat pants and RED sweat shirt. I have 2 red sweat shirts but only one of them is acceptable.

When I dress up to go out and walk past my YNA cage he slams his beak into the bars of his cage to show his displeasure.

I don't have an answer other than to say what you are experiencing is not that unusual.

My other two amazons don't care what I wear except they don't like the N96 mask and don't like me to wear a baseball cap.

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texsize said:

I get the same response from my Yellow Nape.
Sumer clothes is short pants and a blue or grey T shirt.
Winter is sweat pants and RED sweat shirt. I have 2 red sweat shirts but only one of them is acceptable.

When I dress up to go out and walk past my YNA cage he slams his beak into the bars of his cage to show his displeasure.

I don't have an answer other than to say what you are experiencing is not that unusual.

My other two amazons don't care what I wear except they don't like the N96 mask and don't like me to wear a baseball cap.

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Xeno said:

Orange winged amazon bites me whenever I change my clothes

So I've got this orange winged amazon named jack he's a year and eight months old.
I got him 2 months ago and he's gotten pretty used to me by now but I've noticed that he is attached to 2 pieces of shirts I own and whenever I change them he seems to lash out and bite me really hard and go as far to as fly and attack me sometimes and I'm pretty new to owning parrots so I don't know what is the right thing to do here.

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noodles123 said:

What do you do when he attacks the clothes and how long has it been going on?


Some birds get genuinely upset over certain colors/patterns, but your reaction can also impact the behavior.


My bird HATED certain types of clothes on certain people-- it has improved over the years, but chunky sweaters were a huge biting trigger, as were long-sleeves in general. They are not so much anymore, but there was a time when I told anyone holding her to roll up their sleeves and remove jewelry lol! I also had a blue shirt that I often wore to work and if I was bitten, I was almost always wearing it. It could be the association between that shirt and me leaving, or that shirt and my stress levels, but either way, IF I was bitten, it was almost always when I had that shirt on. This comes down to knowing your bird, but also, I think it has a bit to do with your bond. My bird, while she has been bonded to me for many years, was definitly weirder about clothing within the first 2 years or so. It sometimes continued after that, but it hasn't happened over the last few years (even with the blue shirt...although I do notice that she seems annoyed when she sees it haha!)


If you are getting bitten with a certain shirt on, wear that shirt less lol or deal with the consequences without giving a reaction that could be viewed as favorable in your bird's eyes. they see thing SO much better than we do, so something highly patterned etc could actually appear alien/frightening to them in some cases-- they see something like double the color spectrum that we do and they survive because of their ability to notice small details (unlike us).

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