I have a peach faced lovebird:
(picture unrelated to odd behavior, he ``nests`` like that all the time in our hands)
I've had him since he was weaned in 1994 (so he's about 16 years old. Old for a lovebird) and he just displayed an odd behavior that he's only showed once before, a few weeks ago. Before then, this was nothing he'd ever displayed.
First, he woke up from dozing on my chest and started flapping his wings --not sustained like a helicopter-- a kind a sporadic ``stutter`` like behavior.
I picked him up on my finger and held him over the garbage can, thinking he had to go to the bathroom.
Secondly his eyelids drooped to half mast and blinked a lot.
Thirdly he had real difficulty balancing. His right leg had no strength and he couldn't grip with it; he kept losing his grip and kept trying to gain a foothold.
I turned my hand over to make a nest for him to sit in. He hunkered down and closed his eyes and fluffed out and went immobile, like he went to sleep. His grip seemed to be fine again at this point. He remained like this for about two to three minutes.
Then he shook himself off, scratched an itch, and went back to normal. He's acting normally again as I type this out, but the odd behavior seemed to come out of nowhere.
I've had him since he was weaned in 1994 (so he's about 16 years old. Old for a lovebird) and he just displayed an odd behavior that he's only showed once before, a few weeks ago. Before then, this was nothing he'd ever displayed.
First, he woke up from dozing on my chest and started flapping his wings --not sustained like a helicopter-- a kind a sporadic ``stutter`` like behavior.
I picked him up on my finger and held him over the garbage can, thinking he had to go to the bathroom.
Secondly his eyelids drooped to half mast and blinked a lot.
Thirdly he had real difficulty balancing. His right leg had no strength and he couldn't grip with it; he kept losing his grip and kept trying to gain a foothold.
I turned my hand over to make a nest for him to sit in. He hunkered down and closed his eyes and fluffed out and went immobile, like he went to sleep. His grip seemed to be fine again at this point. He remained like this for about two to three minutes.
Then he shook himself off, scratched an itch, and went back to normal. He's acting normally again as I type this out, but the odd behavior seemed to come out of nowhere.