Glad I found this thread! My GCC has been trying it with me a lot lately. His first hatch day is on the 17th and I've read their first year or so can be the worst (although after reading the previous replies I don't have high hopes lol) He has actually succeeded in regurgitating on me once
he demands that I scratch him with my thumb while he's got one foot on my index finger. So I was giving him scratches one night when he started kind of "preening" my thumb. He was being so nice and gentle and then all of a sudden there was a gob of mush on my thumb! There was no head bobbing or anything, I had no idea he was about to do it.
He always tries to mate with my hand and he gets really frustrated trying to figure out why it won't work lol he's like how am I supposed to do this??? I don't let him go on with it very long but he tries really hard, I almost feel bad rejecting him lol
Everyone talks about "mating season" and I'm still confused by it. It seems like every bird has its "season" at a different time of year? I always thought of mating season as one (or maybe more) time of year that all of a species gets hormonal around the same time.