Considering adopting an OWA. He was surrendered due to noise level.
I know that noise level is all relative because they are all loud! My only basis of comparison is my GCC. How would an OWA compare?
My GCC is on the loud side for his species.
I have an OWA and a Jenday and a Hahns.
The OWA is somewhat louder but she doesn't make my ears cringe like the Jenday. And my Hahns never shuts up.
Obviously an OWA is going to be louder than a GCC. I don't know a lot about GCCs personally so I don't know their sounds specifically.
But an OWA will very likely spend a lot less time calling than a GCC.
My Amazons (female OWA, one current female BFA, one past male BFA) would have very short periods where they want to sound off but otherwise just made much quieter and fun sounds.
Although with my male BFA I had to watch TV with closed captioning on because all the music, sound effects and people talking made him talk constantly, but he wasn't what I'd consider loud and it would usually just crack me up tremendously the whole time. Like one roundup scene where the cattle were mooing. well, he didn't know how to moo so he did a tirade of Baaaa Baaa Baaa". He would also answer any phone that rang and have a conversation with all the Oh's, whadda you gonna do about it, hahaha, oh, uhhuh, Ok, byebye...
But i digress......that's living with Amazons.
I do think that if you have not spent enough time with the OWA to hear him vocalize that you should actually spend more time with him until you get a better idea.
Sometimes talking excitedly on the phone or running a vacuum will get them going so you have an idea. Sometimes it's music.
And stop to think - if you've not heard him in the time you've spent is he likely to be a noisy bird? What would you expect from a GCC you were just meeting?
If he was surrendered for noise issues it might have been unrealistic expectations from the people, lack of other things for the OWA to do/boredom, who knows?
He will be louder than the GCC but there is no way for us to know his habits. Most OWAs will only be loud for short, infrequent periods.
too bad I didn't have your phone number yesterday afternoon when we were having bathtime and running the vacuum.
I'd have called you!
