Amazon breathing heavily

[Dumplings]

Hi,

I am a bit confusing on the behavior of my yellow headed amazon Charlie. I just adopted him 2 days ago and he is 8 years old.
Tonight when I carried him on my arm, he suddenly pupil earthquake and have 3-4 heavy breath in one mins. Its like sucking air deeply with a large sound that can be heard from one meter away (normally we cant hear bird breathing can we?). Then I dropped him, and within one hour he did the deep breath for another 2-3 times. Now he is sleepy and he looks fine. Is this normal? I did make an appointment with vet but it is 2 weeks after.
I do not have experience with large parrot before... I only had cockatiels. I also find Charlie often squats down on perch and slightly shivers his wings. Is this something unusual?

Thank you!

 

[Lady Jane]

@Love My Zons

 

[Clueless]

I'll tag someone @melissasparrots

 

[Dumplings]

This morning I played some bird video with him and he got very excited and made breath with sound 3-4 times, they were always with pupil earthquake.

 

[Clueless]

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[Toy]

Sure sounds like breeding mode to me.

 

[Dumplings]

Sure sounds like breeding mode to me.

Thank you!
What sounds like breeding mode? The breath or the squats down motion? Just messaged his previous owner and was told he has not been DNA tested before XD, so he may actually be a girl.
He made those hearable breath mostly when he was excited, as far as I can tell..

 

[Toy]

Thank you!
What sounds like breeding mode? The breath or the squats down motion? Just messaged his previous owner and was told he has not been DNA tested before XD, so he may actually be a girl.
He made those hearable breath mostly when he was excited, as far as I can tell..

All of it. The breathing, pinning pupils, squating, wing shivers. It's all things they do when sexually frustrated. If you are touching him/her any place except head, neck or feet you need to stop. All other touching can trigger sexual desires.

 

[Dumplings]

All of it. The breathing, pinning pupils, squating, wing shivers. It's all things they do when sexually frustrated. If you are touching him/her any place except head, neck or feet you need to stop. All other touching can trigger sexual desires.

He only allows me to touch his beak. I will probably quit touching.

 

[melissasparrots]

Could you get a video of him doing the behavior? Anyone that has seen hormonal behavior from amazons before will recognize it. However, since I can't see what he's doing, it's hard to say for sure that it isn't illness.

 

[Dumplings]

Could you get a video of him doing the behavior? Anyone that has seen hormonal behavior from amazons before will recognize it. However, since I can't see what he's doing, it's hard to say for sure that it isn't illness.

Charlie - Google Drive

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Don't know how to share video here. I upload two in my google drive so anyone can click in. One features his breath, especially when I put my phone back in his cage. The other features his squatting. Thank you!

 

[Dumplings]

Charlie is kind of quite and sitting on perch all day if we don't try hard to get him out of cage.

 

[Clueless]

Charlie is kind of quite and sitting on perch all day if we don't try hard to get him out of cage.

Watch when he moves.

Secret has time periods. For instance, she knows after 5 when people are here is her out of cage time. She gets vocal if ignored.

 

[Dumplings]

His previous owner said he is mocking her because she breaths heavily... I am kind of confused...

 

[melissasparrots]

I don't see any hormonal like heavy breathing in the video. The video of him squatting looks like an amazon that wants to go somewhere else. He may or may not want to step up on you, but he's feeling like he'd rather be somewhere other than where he is at that moment. If he was breathing heavy in the video, it may well be a physical problem instead of a hormonal one.

 

[Elysian]

I think I kind of heard the breath you are talking about in the breathing video.. kind of like a soft hiss or deflating sound?

I am not an expert so I'm glad you have a vet appt scheduled, but if that is the noise you mean.. it kind of sounds like a noise my senegal started making not long after I adopted him.

It terrified me at first thinking he was either having breathing issues or was angry enough to actually hiss at me.. ..turns out he is almost definitely mimicking me breathing through my nose. I can sniff at him and he'll do it back right after.

 

[Dumplings]

I don't see any hormonal like heavy breathing in the video. The video of him squatting looks like an amazon that wants to go somewhere else. He may or may not want to step up on you, but he's feeling like he'd rather be somewhere other than where he is at that moment. If he was breathing heavy in the video, it may well be a physical problem instead of a hormonal one.

Thank you! he is not constantly breathing heavy, it is just one or two shots. He does not have those classical heavy breath symptoms like tail bobbing or wheezing. I guess if he is not getting worse I will not go to ER and just wait for the appointment with vet to give him a full check up.

 

[Dumplings]

I think I kind of heard the breath you are talking about in the breathing video.. kind of like a soft hiss or deflating sound?

I am not an expert so I'm glad you have a vet appt scheduled, but if that is the noise you mean.. it kind of sounds like a noise my senegal started making not long after I adopted him.

It terrified me at first thinking he was either having breathing issues or was angry enough to actually hiss at me.. ..turns out he is almost definitely mimicking me breathing through my nose. I can sniff at him and he'll do it back right after.

Yah that is the sound I am talking about. It is kind of scary especially for who is not experienced like me. Its a relief to know that they can really mimic the breathing. I do make deflating sound sometimes due to rhinitis.

 

[Clueless]

If I had a dollar for every time I was scared by my parrots.....

I can still recall the first few days they were both here and Secret's beak grinding. I thought she was deathly ill and her beak was doing that chattering sound from chills . . . .

 

[macawpower58]

First time my Mealy Amazon squatted down, wings out, head back, whole body shuddering.....I rang the vet!
They laughed and said he was 'getting it on'.