Advise needed

I am the new owner of a 4 year old Senegal Parrot I adopted. He lived 3 1/2 years with his breeder family, then 6 months with the person I aquired him from. I have only had him a few days. He allows me and my boys to scratch his head while in his cage. He will exit his cage by himself to sit on top of it, but does not want any one to pick him up, and wont sit on our hand or arm. He does chrip and has begun saying a few words to us like Pretty Bird and Good bye. Any advise on how to coax him to my arm or just leave his cage ? Thanks

Hi there! Welcome to the board. I'd say all signs point to Good Start, in that he's letting you all scratch him and he's making great vocalizations. It took a couple weeks for my poi to let anyone at all scratch him . I'd let him settle for longer-- at least a couple weeks-- before you start trying to coax him into doing much at all other than get used to you. See what he does in the early weeks of his new home and then decide what you want to work on.

Cheers!

Thanks We understand Rio has been through a major change, and will need time to adjust. I dont believe his last owner had much time to spend with him, and rarely allowed him to leave his cage. So time and attention is what he will get until he is ready for more.

its taken me near a year to get nut to feel settled and safe with us, she had major behaviour issues, mostly probably inadvertantly caused by us, time and take it slow and sounds like your on the right track

suebee said:

its taken me near a year to get nut to feel settled and safe with us, she had major behaviour issues, mostly probably inadvertantly caused by us, time and take it slow and sounds like your on the right track

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Hi I just got my first bird. A sun conure. He is the best thing ever! That aside, I saw your post here and just wanted to know what bad behaviors you think were inadvertently caused by you? I only want to know, so I dont do the same. I know it seems like a silly question, but I want to do my best for my baby.

its very specific things an could be different for your bird, the main thing for nut was lack of routine, and us doing things that annoyed her, like she would attack us if we tried takin a picture of her, because she does not like the click or the flash, i sat too close or had to much interaction with my man, her fav person, oh an if i am openly using the mouse!!! lucky its on a sliding shelf
alot of time ppl think that the attacks are out of the blue, but if they looked back on birds body language, birds been very plainly telling them there proposed actions should we continue!

example, when ever camera is out, nut will fluff alittle and her eyes will be less round, she may turn away
her next level is to stare camera down
then the crouch, head lowered and zap! she's not stupid, she takes the fingers out 1st then camera

she is hormonal right now, so is all love an beak, so i just watch for her gettin to excited an then i cool/stop what ever we are doing, but since giving her regular cage times, and excercise, she is calmer on the whole

(nuts flighted and still has 3hrs or more out of cage time a day)