Now, I know that it sounds strange when I say that we want to make him more comfortable when he is the one biting everybody but parrots only bite to protect and defend their mate and nest, when they find no other way to get their point across or when they are in pain or scared so, when they do it for no apparent reason, it behooves us, owners, to try to figure out what is it that is making him do this and correct it and, sometimes, another 'pair of eyes' helps a lot (we are the other 'pair of eyes' ). So, you need to tell us what kind of light schedule and diet he has as well as what are the daily routines and we will see if there is anything there we can recommend to change so as to make him more comfortable. They will always love one person much, much more than any other but this doesn't mean that they will go around attacking all others. Usually, unwarranted aggression to everybody but one person is because they are overly hormonal which causes chronic frustration and physical discomfort -if not outright pain. They are also considered what we call 'hormonal' birds because of their two annual breeding seasons. Cockatoos need A LOT of out-of-cage and one-on-one time. Welcome to the forum, S Hahn and Nigel! Are you aware that your last name is the same as a parrot species? The Hahn's macaw! Wolf Macaw Gender: Posts: 8679 Location: Lansing, NC Number of Birds Owned: 6 Types of Birds Owned: Senegal Well, unfortunately that is about all that I have that I can share with you at this time about this issue. A word of caution that you should also be aware of is that these bites or attacks can easily be turned to you if the bird is unable to reach the rival or if the birds sees that its tactics to keep its human mate away from its rivals is not working. This threat or competition for your time and affection is agitated by the bird seeing you spending time playing with or especially making physical contact with the perceived rival. This also means that they perceive you as their mate and they may well attack any other human or animal that they think is a threat to their relationship with their human mate. I certainly hope so, but I will share what little I know and hope that it will help point you in the right direction in addressing this issue.Ĭockatoos are one of those species of parrots that bond extremely closely to their human and because of this they have a tendency to need more one on one contact with their chosen human than many of the other, and usually smaller, species of parrots. Perhaps someone with more experience than I will step up pretty soon to share better and more information about this than I am able to. S Hahn Parakeet Gender: Posts: 7 Number of Birds Owned: 2 Types of Birds Owned: 25 year old Male Umbrella Cockatoo I have never seen that behavior out of him. Yesterday i was giving Nigel some floor time supervised, when my wife came in the room he started to say "Hello" a bunch of times, he walked up to her and just bit her foot and when Steph bent down a little he jumped up and went after her face. i am a good parrot owner but just need some advice. we have a small dog, they get along well under supervised times, the minute "Eve" turns around he bites her back end of the tail and butt. It always seems like he bites when the person back is turned. I am new to this forum, there is a lot of knowledgeable people on the forum that is why i chose this forum. i am going back to reading a lot of articles again but i am not finding what i need. In some cases it seems territorial but in other cases he is being petted on the floor and then he will just bite, hands, faces, legs whatever. The only problem i seem to be having with Nigel, when i put NIgel on the floor he will bite everyone in the house except me. With that said, he has been doing great now, i did about three years worth of homework before getting a U2. I have a 25 year Old Umbrella Cockatoo named Nigel, we got Nigel from a horrible situation.
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