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- Rui Castro
Hello everyone!
My black-headed caique is female and around 5 months old, and one month ago he started doing a different sounding screech which has me worried that she's unhappy or she's some kind of sick.
Basically, she acts normal and has been playful and energetic as usual, doing it's typical singing and whistling. However, sometimes during the day, most noticeable during the afternoon, when I get home from work I release her from her cage to spend the remaining of the day with me and once she's on my shoulder she starts making this weird screeching sound... She just stays nex to me doing it and it sounds angry or something and it worries me because she can go for half an hour doing it and it sounds like she is really forcing it, sometimes you can even hear some type of "echoing" or dual tone from inside her (I think one of the videos captures it well) making me think it might be hurting herself somehow. The videos are linked below:
Example 1
Example 2
Eventually she stops doing it and returns to her "normal" self, but until then those 30 minutes or longer get me worried a lot
If someone experienced with these lovely, yet crazy, parrots could give me any type of information on this behaviour or at least help me getting less worried, if that's the case, I would be very thankful!
Thanks in advance!
My black-headed caique is female and around 5 months old, and one month ago he started doing a different sounding screech which has me worried that she's unhappy or she's some kind of sick.
Basically, she acts normal and has been playful and energetic as usual, doing it's typical singing and whistling. However, sometimes during the day, most noticeable during the afternoon, when I get home from work I release her from her cage to spend the remaining of the day with me and once she's on my shoulder she starts making this weird screeching sound... She just stays nex to me doing it and it sounds angry or something and it worries me because she can go for half an hour doing it and it sounds like she is really forcing it, sometimes you can even hear some type of "echoing" or dual tone from inside her (I think one of the videos captures it well) making me think it might be hurting herself somehow. The videos are linked below:
Example 1
Example 2
Eventually she stops doing it and returns to her "normal" self, but until then those 30 minutes or longer get me worried a lot

If someone experienced with these lovely, yet crazy, parrots could give me any type of information on this behaviour or at least help me getting less worried, if that's the case, I would be very thankful!
Thanks in advance!