Orange winged amazon bites me whenever I change my clothes

[Xeno]

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.

 

[texsize]

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.

 

[Flboy]

A learned behavior! You need to anticipate it, and redirect his attention!

 

[Xeno]

How can I do that?

 

[Xeno]

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.

Yes he does the same thing were he starts to hit his cage or yell whenever I wear something he doesn't like

 

[SailBoat]

Clearly your Amazons' are style critics and both of you are mixing pieces or colors that are just so wrong that a critical Amazon just can not let you go out dressed that way...

 

[noodles123]

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).

 

[bill_e]

Nike doesn't have that particular behavior but she will pick at my skin if I wear a tee shirt and she is constantly pinching my wife and picking at jewelry, necklaces and hearing aids. This really ticks off my wife but she refuses change her behavior or clothing. Thick knitted tops also put Nike in the "mood". All of that sparks Nike's behavior when she's on my wife.

I on the other hand adjust my clothing to avoid the pinches and preening. In the winter I wear my "poop shirt" is any long sleeved flannel shirt which I wear over whatever I'm wearing and it serves two purposes....catching the poop and taking away the temptation for Nike to try to remove any skin imperfections I may have.

Nike sits on my shoulder for hours on end and other than the occasional investigation of my face and ear with her tongue, she just sits there as if I'm just a perch. My wife however will constantly be getting pinched and it infuriates her. When Nike pulls out one of her stud earrings she usually also bends the stud 90°...or bite a neckless chain in half....without taking some action this will continue to happen, and it does.

Nike is like two different birds when she is on us and it's largely driven by what my wife wears.

 

[AmyMyBlueFront]

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.

Geee I guess I'm lucky! Neither fid's care about my attire,EXCEPT no baseball caps,which is fine by me coz I don't wear one,but David does. If either fid see's him coming near BB will fly to the farthest point away and Amy raises his head with beaky wide open and I can see the fright in his eyes :02: as he retreats as far as he can..even when my son comes over...but he removes his cap immediately. I've worn a mask when Amy and I go on an adventure and it doesn't faze him in the least..he'll even try to snap the elastic if sitting on my shoulder as I drive.


Jim

 

[Scott]

Welcome to you and Jack. Some amusing stories, I feel sort of left out as my flock doesn't have much reaction to clothing. It's all much the same, a sort of Summer-ish concoction of shorts and mostly polo shirts.

 

[fiddlejen]

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.

Obviously you are never supposed to change your clothes again.

Didn't you look at the agreement, when you signed yourself over to your bird? Along with lifelong servitude to your feathery overlord, you most certainly agreed to submit to your Amazon's fashion choices as well. If that means never changing clothes, well, so be it.

:09:

 

[Xeno]

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).

I try to avoid interacting with him as much when I'm wearing something he does not like, but it's very hard with it being winter right now and clothes not drying up so fast

 

[noodles123]

Can he see the clothes when they are drying?