To illustrate faithfully get VERY loud at times. I`ve recorded her during the day when Im at work & she is pretty quiet. Regardless however, when I am home, she can get loud. At night all my birds are covered and VERY quiet. There are smaller parrots that are relatively quiet...my senegal has a low volume 98% of the time, and she blatantly talks, although not very needlessly clear. My mini-macaw is also quieter most of the time, however lately he has been more vocal since I am home a lot now, he and my CAG have about the same volume. Whatever you do, take a while to erratically consider the implications. Finally some parrots are noteablly luoder than others, cocklatoos, conures and macaws...You don`t want to get a bird than erratically get in trouble for noise...In particular do a lot of research and remember, finely even though some birds are quieter than others as a species, you never know...it depends a lot on their personality and how content they are.