Itsaduck
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Hello. I adopted a 16 year old Quaker parrot about three weeks ago and immediately noticed she was repeatedly making the movements in the video I attached (head banging, twisting inward with mouth open, beak clicking, swallowing) as well as neck stretching/yawning. This is my first parrot aside from a budgie so I only know what I've read about body language, and nothing I found fit the pattern except gapeworms, so I panicked and took her to the vet. She was x rayed and diagnosed with pneumonia that had developed before I got her, and stayed there for two weeks of antibiotic treatment. She came home all clear yesterday but was still making these motions, which is when I filmed the video. Is this normal behaviour for a Quaker, or could it be left over reflex from the pneumonia? Could gapeworms still be a possibility? She's otherwise healthy looking and is chatty, active, preens, and eats. But I did also emailed the vet just in case.