Do you notice your birds are differently intelligent?

[DRB]

I think one difference between parrot species is some learn and some have to be taught. I'm noticing I don't have to teach my CAG everything I want her to do, she learns some of it on her own. My guess is the higher intelligent parrot species have a yearning to learn stuff, it's in their nature while others don't yearn to learn but they can be taught.

 

[wrench13]

DRB - i think its more of an individual thing. Amazons are not really noted for being THAT smart, but Salty manages to amaze me all the time. Example - we started with 2 six inch rings, which I hold maybe a foot apart, and he goes back and forth between them. Thats what I taught him. Then one day, by himself, he picked the ring up in his beak, and flipped it over his head and walked thru it. All on his own. Amazing. And then months after doing this, one night , he balanced the ring on one end, and just walked thru it. Again, nothing I taught him, he just did it on his own.

Greys, yep smart. Sometimes too smart, eh?