KawaGreen

Thank you for the replies!

Hello everyone, I stopped by a bird pet store and my attention fell on this bird, I've never seen this one before. Sadly I forgot to ask the store owner what species this bird is. Does anyone have an idea?

Thank you for all the nice replies! Really interesting that some of you managed 'potty training' or got a routine going on this. Jacko has never pooped when he was on me, and I definitely know the signs of 'I'm gonna poop!' . When he's on a chair and I see the signal I'll go: "Wait, wait, Jacko, waaaait!" whilst running to get some paper. Usually he holds it then, but I guess this time it was too much.

Hello everyone, I took Jacko out of his cage, he was as usual calm and friendly. When I sat down in the sofa (he sat on my shoulder) I felt him wiggling with this tail. And before I knew it, the largest poop I saw in my life just ran down my back. :eek: All over my back, my jeans and a pillow. I calmly stood up and put him on his cage to change clothes and clean it. Now, it's the first time this happened, how should I react in the future? And no, I didn't take pictures.

I once had the same story with a lemon seed I planted. It took months before showing something and eventually it lived for 2 years and died during the winter.

Umbrellas and skateboards. No idea why he hates skateboards, as I quit skateboarding before he came into our life. But whenever I take it out of the garage (once a year or so) he's really upset.

So no tasting?

Main thing I know is: Do not respond to screaming. If there is no response, there will be no more screaming. Same goes for biting.

It's from plastic, AKA for one time use by my parrot

If you are carrying some delicious food this could also be a reason . If not, than it's possibly her wanting attention.

Is the angle of her back almost 0° compared to the horizon? Like this picture: If so, it's her being exited, whether it's positive or negative should be evaluated from the situation. Are there sounds or objects in the room that are new to her? Than this could be a sign of her being curious. Maybe a sign of her wanting some attention from you. What is the stance of her feathers?

His beak is like this for as long as we have had him. So I don't think he will need a trim (unless someone more experienced says so). He also has lots of things to chew on, like ropes and wood. And he uses his favorite resting stick (don't know the proper word in English) to sharp his beak, it looks like this one but much thicker:

Wow what a nice warm welcome! Thank you all. I'll hope to learn a lot on this forum. I have a couple of questions right away: Do you think his beak is too long? What do you guess his age would be? He has in my opinion a long beak, but in my view he has no trouble with it as he eats normal. His beak doesn't become longer it's always the same length and he has no trouble climbing or holding on with it. I'm guessing his age would be around 14 years ( we got him for 7 years now ). He's a lot more active than other grays I saw. Sometimes he tries to feed me, it takes a very long time before and even if some food comes out. I have read different approaches to this, but what are your opinions?

It should be illegal to be this cute!

Hi everyone, It took me about 3 months to register to this forum. I kept getting an error with a spam question :confused:, contacted vBulletin but they didn't want to notify the forum admins. Also could not contact an admin as it would use the same sort of validation as a registration. Anyway I finally got in, so I'm happy Here's our story, sit tight. My name is Glenn, I'm 23 year old and I've got an African grey of unknown age. My dad found him 7 years ago, he flew in front of his car while driving in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night in November, pretty cold. He was really exhausted and in a lot of stress (he was growling) so my dad catched him and took him to our home. We called animal protection and police but they were unable to identify him as he was not wearing a ring or chip. We had put him in a temporary cage with food and water, and we went from door to door in the area asking for a lost parrot. We even printed out pictures and displayed them in local supermarkets. But nobody contacted us. So after a couple of days he started talking, I will never forget that moment. We bought him a bigger parrot cage and he was very quickly adapted. After some time my mother could do really anything with him, she would take him out of his cage for hours and do all sorts of stuff with him. Of course my dad and I were very jealous about this as he would bite us when he had the opportunity. So we just sticked to feeding him and maintaining his cage. Some really strange thing happened a year and a half after we found him. My parents were driving home from friend on my dad's motorcycle when my mother had bursts of very strong headache, my dad had to stop and had to call an ambulance. She fell unconscious and was diagnosed to have a cerebral hemorrhage. She had surgery and although the doctors said there was a big chance she would be paralized, she fully recovered in a couple of weeks. Now the strange thing, it happened in the exact same spot my dad found Jacko. Creepy isn't it? Anyway, since a year or so I've been researching a lot about parrot behavior and how to train your parrot. So I'm proud to say I can take Jacko out of his cage and pet him (but only when he wants it ). To end, some pictures of Jacko: