parrot screaming - advice?

[enda88]

HI,

My beautiful orange winged amazon, is generally pretty well behaved, and doesn't often make a fuss, except when he hears noises like the dish washer, the kettle, really any form of loud noise coming from the kitchen? i have been raising my voice when this occurs and he will stop, but only briefly, but i have been recently informed that trying to correct him verbally is not effective as speaking up "be quiet" or "stop" means nothing to the bird, but i do fully understand. They only see any form of verbal action, as response to their screaming. I there any advice anyone can offer on actions i can take to get this under control. I am concerned about this only, because we are considering moving homes, and i would fear that neighbours may complain to me about this, and i do not want any problems. Also, he is in my living room, and other than that, or the kitchen (which is definitely not an option) it would not make sense to move the bird up stairs in the house as it would not get the attention it would with being in our main room of the house. So moving him is not an option.

Many thanks for any advice given!

 

[wenz2712]

Unfortunately, this seems to be quite a problem with Zons My Amazon, Codie can scream for England and he does very often!

You are right though in not reacting to it, as this just makes them worse! I just totally ignore Codie when he does it.. I dont even make eye contact with him! He is in my Dining Room... I find it helps a great deal if I close the Door when he starts. When he stops, I then open it again and I keep doing this until he stops altogether. He does not like the Door being shut, so he is slowly learning that this is what I will do when he starts!

 

[JerseyWendy]

Ditto to what Wendy said. Do NOT react, and if you holler back at him, he may only get louder, so you 2 may end up in a screaming match.

 

[henpecked]

Hey enda, welcome to the forum. Does he scream when it's noises from other places than the kitchen? Like the vacuum cleaner in other rooms. If it's just from kitchen noises, could food be associated with the screaming? Do you try and bribe him with a treat? I'd pay close attention to what triggers this and see if you can find a clue to the behavior. I have cures for the "i'm lonely ,come get me " attention getting screams but if your reinforcing it with food ,it could be hard to stop. If it just the kitchen , try and figure out why. Most of my zons will get"loud" if there's loud things happening, other birds fussing, yelling at the dogs, kids fighting, dogs barking, that sort of stuff. It's contact calling, everybody is letting everybody else know they're there (sort of like ,this is my territory).

 

[julya]

My amazon will scream when he hears loud noise, but it only lasts as long as the loud sound is happening or a little longer. He never screams for more than a few minutes for sure. There is a day care near my house, and when the kids are out for recess Ollie screams intermittently while the kids are out there. But after they are all in, and we don't hear any more kid sounds he is quiet. If I take him to another room where we can't hear the daycare while the kids are out, then he is quiet. Can you maybe move your amazon to a different room when you know there are going to be loud sounds coming from the kitchen? My amazon has a smaller sleeping cage that is easy to move around the house if I need to.