DoctorWhoops
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- Jan 21, 2024
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- Appa the Caique
My Caique, Appa, seems to get a huge shift in mood whenever I pull away my curtains and provide him access to the view behind window that his cage is next to. He can be sitting idly in his cage eating and playing with his toys, and as soon as I pull away the curtains he becomes incredibly horny and hormonal. He starts whistling so sharply that it hurts my ear, sometimes even screaming for attention, hanging off the top of his cage flapping his wings and shaking his head, rubbing his back on the side of the cage, beeping incessently and performing all of the most annoying and excited behaviours there are. He gets amped up almost instantly and becomes incredibly exhausting. The strange part is that he's not even looking out the window while doing this, but perhaps the blue light gets him excited and hormonal.
On the other hand, when I close the curtains and limit the room to primarily artificial ceiling lights he calms down rather quickly. Grabs some food, sits on his perch, and eats it while only occasionally beeping for attention. It's a completely different behavioural pattern, one that I obviously much prefer. He doesn't seem sleepy, just more calm.
The only 'solution' so far has been to keep the windows covered, but I'm not sure whether it's healthy for him to have no view of the outside and limited access to natural, blue light. I have a parrot-safe UV lamp that I turn on from time to time and it doesn't lead to the same behaviour I described above, but I can only run it for a couple of hours a day at most.
Would it be acceptable for me to keep my blinds closed and keep my parrot calm as a result, or am I depriving him of an essential view or blue light that is part of what makes him so hyper?
On the other hand, when I close the curtains and limit the room to primarily artificial ceiling lights he calms down rather quickly. Grabs some food, sits on his perch, and eats it while only occasionally beeping for attention. It's a completely different behavioural pattern, one that I obviously much prefer. He doesn't seem sleepy, just more calm.
The only 'solution' so far has been to keep the windows covered, but I'm not sure whether it's healthy for him to have no view of the outside and limited access to natural, blue light. I have a parrot-safe UV lamp that I turn on from time to time and it doesn't lead to the same behaviour I described above, but I can only run it for a couple of hours a day at most.
Would it be acceptable for me to keep my blinds closed and keep my parrot calm as a result, or am I depriving him of an essential view or blue light that is part of what makes him so hyper?