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Harrisons pellets are considered some of the best. Do you feed him other things beside pellets? See Nutrition & Diet You might lay off the misting. Sounds like you might be mis-reading their natural tendency to scratch and preen their feathers almost constantly. All birds do this. I hardly ever bathe my Grey, she'll mostly do it on her own in a casserole dish full of ice water. You might be stressing her out by forcing the spraying.

Sounds to me like birdy just had a very traumatic experience in the shipping process. Probably thrown around like a regular piece of luggage. She needs you most right now to settle down and act calm, her world is completely in upheaval right now. Also you said she is eating lots of stuff besides her formula - that's much better than your original post indicated. I wouldn't push the formula if she's eating other stuff, just keep offering it. You may want to try and put it in a bowl - I have had one that will eat it like that. You may also try some calming soothing music and possibly use that or some easy white noise at night too to mask the noises that may be keeping her on edge. She needs to know she's landed in a place of calm.

Look at that cute lil cake face! Happy 10th hatchday Talon!!!

That's great. Hate it when they flip out in their cages at night like that. Stressful on everybody/birdy.

I'm calling FOWL! Those videos are from 2010. (anything to discredit and DQ my competitors).

I'm with birdhouse on this one. I asked about past behavior because if this was brought on by one incident and Echo being a 15 year old bird that has never acted like this before, it HAD to be a traumatic incident they pulled. My daughter told me what happened with my ex-wife and our Grey 'Odie' that she still had at the time (who is now with my aunt until I get her back - another story). Apparently some guy she was dating had come over and was waiting on my ex to get ready. He decided to pass the time by grabbing a broom handle and shoving it in the cage at Odie, who started to panic, which alerted my daughter who came running to see what was happening. Daughter ran and told Mom who promptly came out swearing and screaming and sent the dude packing. He's lucky I wasn't there because I nearly shot one of my neighbors for a lesser crime (another story from my colorful little past).

Has she acted like this before the incident with the dog walker or is this new behavior since that incident?

Turn their bird room into a jungle gym. That's what I did.

I have to say, the human would put me to sleep or possibly cardiac arrest from sheer boredom (I. Hate. Opera). However when the Zon does it I'm all ears and could watch for hours!

Ignoring you is part of your punishment. Sitting with a pistachio on your head is good but you should show some real penance and sit on a pile of pistachio shells - and beg for forgiveness, all while still being ignored.

Well, we'll try again. I know one thing: if I take the pumpkin in their aviary and try to carve it myself and demand them to stay out of it, they'll be all over it like flies on you know what.

I absolutely believe letting her take Echo to her house is the next worst decision that can be made. I may have read that wrong but I read: you're going to let the dog sitter, who screwed this up in the first place, take the bird? Based on her reaction to thinking it was funny and posting it on FB leads me to believe this person needs to stick to dog walking. Your bird is now traumatized, I wouldn't screw with the situation any further. Let Echo sort herself out in her trusted place and she will come around. Also sounds like Echo may need a bit of socializing but I have no idea if it's too late for that. I have a best friend. If I told him not to do something more than once and he did it anyway traumatizing my baby like that he would find out real fast he's on my shit list. That's if I didn't punch him for it. edit: ok, you have a dog walker and a parrot sitter. I realized after I posted these are two different people. No idea on that one.

That picture of Isaac at the end of that rope is exactly what GreycieMae loves to do as well. Only we use a plastic chain with a big 'ol cow bell at the bottom. Man she can get going around on that thing and make a HUGE racket and then she'll suddenly launch off of it into a wild terrordactyl strafing across the house. If she can spook the two littles into the air she'll chase one of them like she's some sort of predatory hawk or something. Too big for her britches sometimes. That toy really gets her going.

I'm afraid there's no interest here, and not for lack of trying. I bought one of those small baking pumpkins and drilled a hole in the stem and hung it in the aviary. Couldn't wait to see the destruction. Came home - nothing. Drilled a few pilot holes. Came home again - couple of nibbles. It finally started to turn bad and I had to toss it to the chickens. I bet if I hung a framed Mona Lisa in there they'd destroy that. Idiots...

I just thought about this. We get up early, 3am-4am-5am and I don't want my birds being disturbed. So I will run a white noise maker just outside of their bird room door to mask the sound of my wife slamming the bathroom door, microwave door etc. You may try running something similar for Isaac to see if it stops his night frights. Similar concept to a night light only your dealing with the auditory situation if that's what's causing this. I use two different things: we have a space heater that has a fan-only setting and I also have a regular turbin fan that is super loud (as fans go) and either of those do a good job of masking any external noise. Might take a few nights for him to get used to it. Set it far away and bring closer over the course of a few nights. I think that will help with him sitting there focusing on every little sounds he hears. I also use this tactic in the living room during the day when they get startled and need settling - bust out the tunes to mask the scary quiet.

What your describing sounds more like a panic to me. GreycieMae will do that occasionally from external stimulus either visual or auditory - I never know what causes it as it's over by the time I get there. I believe we had an episode of it last night during the night because I went in to find her sitting on her food bowl. She never wakes up off her swing unless something has happened. We had a hawk attack them three times in the their aviary last night and I'm thinking she may have had some after affects from that (dreams maybe?!?).

Keep listening to at least the 0:50 mark. Love that amazon voice. So cute

Not sure if it's an option but in our bird room I had to cable the camera and radio in some pvc pipe with some 90degree elbows to the wall to keep them from custom wiring the place.

It's hard to get it right when your dense and not connected to the Grey way - so here's a little chart I stole off FB this morning to help:

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Rio, our Jardines, will hot foot it over to you if you're holding a camera or a phone. I have a hard time getting any video of him because the second he spots the camera, he's on it. He has removed 20+ keys off my wife's laptop and peeled the screen casing off of it too.

They'll generally figure out a way to take care of that feather, but I've also gone in with a pair of scissors and snipped it at the point where it's bent/snapped without any harm.

Oh man...is that thing safe for parrots? I've heard with reptile lighting you can burn birdy. Someone here did just that (Talon?) I can't seem to find the UVA/B requirement-differences between avian and reptiles or I'd check it.

Have you tried offering her the treats as a reward for stepping up? I.e. she has to step up in order to get the treat. She may immediately step back down but eventually she'll establish enough trust to step up.

I don't know what it is about Greys, but they truly do love ice in their bath water. The lady we got GreycieMae from told us to be sure and use ice in her bath water. So we use a big glass casserole dish with ice water. I can put that in their outdoor aviary where I don't have to lift a finger to clean up. I also put it on the counter next to the sink and she loves to jump off the top of the water faucet into the ice batch over and over and over again. Here's what we use: