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Parrot clicking tongue?

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Anyone else’s parrot move their tongue up and down to make a clicking noise? My conure is on my shoulder and making that noise very weird since hes half asleep too
 

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like beak grinding?
My gcc makes lit if little noises kina like that her kiss noises n such
 

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like beak grinding?
My gcc makes lit if little noises kina like that her kiss noises n such
Nopeee it’s like the thing us Humans do when we put our tongue to the roof of our mouth and make a clicking noise
 

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Secret does something similar when she's beak grinding.
 

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Beak grinding is normal! It's usually done when sleepy or happy ;)
 

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My Quaker has started doing that after studying me do it :D
 

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My hy does exactly what you're describing. His tongue makes a clear movement, and he makes. a discernible clicking sound.
 

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I think tongue clicking is a variation on the kiss noise for my birds.
 

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Burt does a loud clicking sound sometimes but it is not with his tongue, I think he is somehow making the snapping sound with his beak, it is usually done around the times he is beak grinding so I have never worried about it.
 

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I'm not sure if he actually uses his tongue to make it like people do, but my mbc makes the tongue clicking sound all the time. We click at each other back and forth when playing, when he's settling down in his cage to sleep, or if he's hiding somewhere like under a blanket and can't see me. He also does a variation of it as a sort of kissy sound when he gives me a "kiss."

And it's definitely very different from beak grinding (he also does that, but not usually in the same contexts; except when settling down to sleep, when he might do either).
 
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