Hello 
I have just got a rainbow lorikeet, it is presumed to be a male, and he is bout a year old or so I was told. His owners are moving overseas once flights resume so we are his new forever home.
He is toilet trained and speaks 20 words very well.
This is my first bird I have personally owned though I helped my mother hand raise rescue birds through much of my earlier life.
Loco is the name he has come with, he took to me quite quickly on introduction rubbing his cheek on mine within minutes. And today being his 2nd day here initated play wrestling which I looked up after to see how common it was (which it is) for a bird to want to be flipped over onto it's back and tickled. He says tickle tickle, and when i started to tickle around his neck he kept rolling over.
Anywho, his owners said he didnt let them touch him much other than neck scratches more recent times. But he seems to want me to poke and scritch him every which way. I read somewhere about birds changing their favoured human when they matured.
So I'm think he though well done Mum and Dad you found me a wife when i turned up. Im trying to get him to socialise also with my husband and child, but so far (2 days) he makes a deafening racket if he cant see me in the same room.
i dont want to cause him issues, i do work from home and he will sit mosyle on his play perch on table next to my desk and watch me work just fine.
I have just got a rainbow lorikeet, it is presumed to be a male, and he is bout a year old or so I was told. His owners are moving overseas once flights resume so we are his new forever home.
He is toilet trained and speaks 20 words very well.
This is my first bird I have personally owned though I helped my mother hand raise rescue birds through much of my earlier life.
Loco is the name he has come with, he took to me quite quickly on introduction rubbing his cheek on mine within minutes. And today being his 2nd day here initated play wrestling which I looked up after to see how common it was (which it is) for a bird to want to be flipped over onto it's back and tickled. He says tickle tickle, and when i started to tickle around his neck he kept rolling over.
Anywho, his owners said he didnt let them touch him much other than neck scratches more recent times. But he seems to want me to poke and scritch him every which way. I read somewhere about birds changing their favoured human when they matured.
So I'm think he though well done Mum and Dad you found me a wife when i turned up. Im trying to get him to socialise also with my husband and child, but so far (2 days) he makes a deafening racket if he cant see me in the same room.
i dont want to cause him issues, i do work from home and he will sit mosyle on his play perch on table next to my desk and watch me work just fine.
