Pionus Alarm Call Scaring Flock?

[AW2023]

Up until October when he passed, my conure was always my flock's "guard dog." Now it seems my pionus is attempting to fill that role.
Unfortunately, it's not going well. My conure alarm-called at everything, and yelled nonstop the rest of the time, so my girls were used to his panicking and would mostly ignore him. With the seasons changing and more activity outside by wild birds, my pionus Gattaca sometimes will see a hawk or something else that scares her and alarm call. My other two girls panic, and end up frantically crashing into their perches and the sides of their cages. Their cages are set up to have plenty of flapping room, but they get so scared they end up hurting themselves regardless of what's around them.
This is happening almost once a day, and they don't have to be in the same room or anything (they can hear her from anywhere in the house.)

My parakeets are never afraid of whatever is outside, only of her alarm calling.
I don't want to keep the shades down all the time, but I'm not sure how else I can prevent this.
Any advice on what to do?

 

[Neoandme]

Oh no that sounds horrible! I am not completely sure what to do but I hope it'll get better soon!

 

[MommyBird]

can you move her cage so there is less of a window view?
or perhaps get a tall birdsafe plant or fake plant, or partially cover the window with a sheer curtain or stickon plastic that lets light thru.
When my Hahns was young and alarm calling at everything I had to teach him that some things were OK but a few things were bad by talking baby talk and pointing at the Stellar Jays and pointing and growling at the elk. I would praise him when he alarm called at the elk. He caught on really fast.

 

[Dartman]

Nerd Bird used to alarm call too but pretty sure he was wild caught so probably remembered having watch birds when he was little in the wild. He did very well, no hawks or crows ever carried us away and we told him good job afterwards. He tended to do his jungle flock calls in the morning and evening then was usually quiet unless he saw danger out the kitchen window. If you have to I'd move her so she doesn't feel like she has to be the watch bird for the flock and call out every time she sees something that concerns her. Also like MommyBird says try to teach her what are really concerning and what she shouldn't be worried about.

 

[Nostromo]

I have this issue with my young blue head pionus as well. She's now an only bird, so it doesn't have the consequences for the flock, but god it's annoying... I am noticing she's doing it especially with her playstand that is positioned so she can see out the kitchen window. I put it there so she could enjoy looking outdoors but I am going to move it because the screaming is just brutal. As Dartman says, it's primarily in the morning and evenings but that's when my son and husband are home so not ideal timing!

The other thought I have for you, if you're not able to move your bird so she can't see out the window as well, is that you could buy those static cling window pane covers - they're for privacy, and I used to have them over our windows when my older girl was first learning to fly because she would collide with the windows otherwise. They make it so that the same amount of sunlight comes in, but you can't really see out clearly. Maybe covering the top half so that your bird can't see what's out there as well?