Kozikinz

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Green Cheek Conure
From the moment I got my Mochi, my green cheek conure, he's always been pretty quiet. I know that green cheeks are considered the lowest noise-level conures, but even then he has been a very silent speaker.

Of course half of the time he's usually quacking, or what I like to call a little "wenk," which is what it sounds like to me when he just sort of makes a little grumble. Anything louder than a 3/10 volume level is actually unusual of him. The past two days, he learned how to make the kissing sounds I'm always doing at him, but those were the acceptable sounds. After tonight,
I've realized that Mochi will let out a couple famous conure screeches if and only if I'm singing, and I don't know what this is about. I am a good singer and he should not be complaining! LOL I can't tell if it's because he likes it, hates it, or if he's just happening to squawk at the same time I'm singing by coincidence. I might even just be getting him excited by making noise and he just wants to join the party by letting out the unholy sound that is his squawking. It's easy to catch, and he only does it for a couple seconds, so all I have to do is stop singing immediately and either leave the room for cover the cage for a few minutes so that he knows that squawking is not a desirable behavior.

To be honest, the squawks aren't bad, my cockatiel could do (and did do)
much worse, and he does it so infrequently that it doesn't bother me at all,
but I live with my family and I wouldn't want to bother anybody.

Should I continue to treat this occasional squawking like I would a normal screaming bird by leaving the room, or should I just stop singing to him?
I refuse to punish Mochi in anyway unless it's passive akin to leaving the room or draping the cage for a few minutes. I don't think I can "reward"
silence because he probably won't realize when he's being quiet, but I'll take any advice about it, or any comparison if anyone has a bird that behaves similarly.
 

GlitchTown

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Skye, Cloud, Beep, Lilac - American budgies
I have a sun conure, and, well, let's just say you're lucky... But regardless, I think if it's singing that makes him do it, if quietness is very important, I'd probably reduce it. Or keep on doing what you're doing with the draping and leaving the room. I also live with my family... with a sun conure... and I don't mind his screams one bit, but my sister does. So I have to discourage it as best I can. It's definitely a difficult task. Buuuut, luckily it sounds like Mochi isn't one for screaming [emoji16]

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plumsmum2005

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Lou, Ruby, and Sonu.
Fly free Plum, my gorgeous boy.
Yes our fids love to join in with singing, but it's their version and as long as he looks happy, having fun what's the harm in letting off some steam eh?
 

LordTriggs

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Rio (Yellow sided conure) sadly no longer with us
he's back up singing!

Fun for a conure is often times loud! Mine was like yours in not making much noise, but there were times when he got really over-excited playing which would make him shoot into the air and start screaming with delight
 

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