My Ana Grey is only 6 months old. She is a quiet little girl. She is most vocal after her bath or misting, and never screeches or screams. If I leave the room she calls after me, she doesn't talk yet, and after I answer her, she is quiet. At night I put her in her cage about 1/2 hour before I want her to go to sleep so she can eat and drink. When I want her to go to sleep I say "nite, nite" and she comes to the bars for a tickle and scoots up to her cement perch to sleep. I do not cover her cage at night but the room is totally dark until the sun comes up and she is quiet until I open her cage in the morning. She comes out at her leisure for breakfast. She is a quiet grey, but I am a quiet person, and I believe our animals mostly take their cues from their owners. My pug is a quiet little dog too. Ana Grey does get oodles of attention because I do not work and live alone so we are together most of the time.