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Huey and Greycie both copied an annoying high-pitched shriek from my caique. Now they have shriek battles to see who can do it the most and the loudest. The only solace I have is the new guy, Odie, tells them to 'stop it' and 'shut up'. I'm wondering if they would go good with tiki masala sauce.

This makes me thankful that I only have one grey to worry about. He loves anything loud and obnoxious. He has this ear piercing squeak that he saves for when I'm walking next to his cage and it's so painful when he does it. I try so hard not to react so as to not enforce it... but he knows full well that he's got me every time. I can't imagine three of them making the same noise! As least you don't have this problem: Swearing parrots moved enclosures to help stop their bad language - BBC Newsround

I'll take the smoke alarm sound any day over having 3 parrots making long, sustained belching sounds, one after the other, as if they'd just downed a tall frothy mug of beer!

Haha! Oh, that's so funny! Would love to have a match off with your two. The worst sound mine have picked up is my son's prolonged burping noise following with back and forth shrieking matches. I need me an Odie to help referee!

Odie looks really good! He must be enjoying all his good eats and lovin'! So glad you were able to FINALLY find that travel cage! Your nightly set up looks really nice. I don't have a sleeping area for my flock as I personally haven't found a need for it here. They'll stir a little at sunrise, but they usually don't get around to chatting amongst themselves until 0730ish, which works out just fine for me. There's been a few occasions where one or 2 of them have experienced a midnight terror flail, but it usually happens right before an earthquake. It's amazing how they know even before we humans do!

Why is it that when one of my CAGS learns to make an extremely obnoxious sound that the other 2 decide to adopt it as well, creating an annoying ongoing chorus? And why don't they share the more pleasant sounds amongst them?

Ha Ha, I am glad I am not the only one! Once 1 starts..they go back & forth getting louder as they go. God forbid they hear a smoke alarm on a tv show! Then my house has nonstop smoke alarm sounds...seeing as the owner before me hard wired 11 alarms that go off at different times ..I can never tell if its my greys or a real thing! OR it is my ADT alarm system... Long story short, one of my greys Talon, has her own cage in my bedroom just for sleeping..On Sunday mornings when my husband & I don't have to get up early for work...it's sleep in day..Talon even tho she is covered KNOWS the usual early wake up to go to work time..she starts her whistles..soon my grey downstairs hears her. Then is becomes a contest of mimicking each other louder & louder..back & forth for quite some time...UGH!

I'm fortunate there. I only have one bird so don't have to worry about harmony on an obnoxious sound. Timber's worst is the smoke alarm. He doesn't do it at full volume there so it is bearable, though confusing sometimes if you are in another room. Is it the detector or Timber? His loudest is his "alert" which I believe is common to all parrots. It's annoying but I don't hear it often.