Be Patient! You Cannot Stop a Parrot From Screaming in One Day
The magnitude of the scream is not measured by the size of the parrot and you will be surprised that a fairly small parrot like the ring-necked parakeet can actually make a very loud screaming contact call.
These loud, repetitive and continuous volumes of calls can be due to problems such as boredom, frustration, anxiety and nervousness and it can start with a low contact call at first to ask for the attention of its carer.
For example, the cockatoos are such parrots that will scream when their carer leaves the room and the bird is left alone.
To think by shouting at the bird or covering the cage to prevent the bird from making these screaming calls are definitely not the ways to solve the problem, and trying to put the bird back into its cage is not improving the situation either.
Very often, these loud screaming calls are due to some kind of frustrations faced by the bird and in order to address the causes of these screaming calls, one should try to find out what are these frustrations.
What are the signs of frustration? The bird will be very frustrated if it sees you eating or doing something, from within its cage, and has no way to come out to join you in the feast.
If this is the case, you should not eat in front of the bird and it eat your food out of the bird's view.
The methods below have proved useful in reducing screaming in parrots where the bird appears to be making noise for attention and wants to keep in contact with you when you leave the room.
Some of these methods are: o The bird's screaming is genuinely excessive o The bird is already trained and accepts the usual request from you o It is already getting several hours a day out of the cage with you First, you need to train the bird to differentiate between the times you leave the room for a short while and still be available within earshot of the bird (like washing your dishes in the kitchen), and the times when you leave the room for a long period (like going out to watch a movie).
You may want to leave the room door slightly ajar and give a contact call which is lower than the bird's screaming call, such as a soft whistle or just the bird's name when you leave the room for a short while.
It is important that the bird recognizes this action and learn to listen to your soft contact call, which tells it that you are still around in the house even when you are out of its sight.
At the start, you may try to leave the bird's room for a few seconds only to get the bird accustomed to your soft contact call and then repeat this process with slightly longer duration in minutes until the bird has reduced or stopped its screaming calls.
Next, you may want to tell the bird that you will be gone for a long time and then close the door when you leave the room.
Make sure you do not return for at least half an hour or more.
By doing the above two actions consistently and repeatedly, the bird will soon begin to differentiate the two types of disappearance of their carers for different durations and the screaming will be reduced.
Another method to reduce or stop the screaming is to provide the bird with playing or destructible toys or giving the bird its favorite food to keep it busy or occupied as busy beaks cannot scream.
A roosting box can also be used for a daytime siesta since birds will not scream when inside their roosting box.
You should look for opportunities to keep your bird occupied with a range of different activities to reduce the boredom or frustrations.
However, when you find the bird is screaming excessively, you may want to leave the room for 5 to 10 minutes and close the door after you leave.
You need to ignore all the contact calls that the bird is giving in order to make the bird realize that its screaming is actually causing you to leave the room but you may need to this many times.
Once the bird has stopped or reduced its screaming calls, you can open the door and approach it with a verbal praise so that the bird now gets the message that its cessation of screaming calls will make you appear in its sight again.
I hope you find these simple tips on how to stop your parrot from screaming useful.
These loud, repetitive and continuous volumes of calls can be due to problems such as boredom, frustration, anxiety and nervousness and it can start with a low contact call at first to ask for the attention of its carer.
For example, the cockatoos are such parrots that will scream when their carer leaves the room and the bird is left alone.
To think by shouting at the bird or covering the cage to prevent the bird from making these screaming calls are definitely not the ways to solve the problem, and trying to put the bird back into its cage is not improving the situation either.
Very often, these loud screaming calls are due to some kind of frustrations faced by the bird and in order to address the causes of these screaming calls, one should try to find out what are these frustrations.
What are the signs of frustration? The bird will be very frustrated if it sees you eating or doing something, from within its cage, and has no way to come out to join you in the feast.
If this is the case, you should not eat in front of the bird and it eat your food out of the bird's view.
The methods below have proved useful in reducing screaming in parrots where the bird appears to be making noise for attention and wants to keep in contact with you when you leave the room.
Some of these methods are: o The bird's screaming is genuinely excessive o The bird is already trained and accepts the usual request from you o It is already getting several hours a day out of the cage with you First, you need to train the bird to differentiate between the times you leave the room for a short while and still be available within earshot of the bird (like washing your dishes in the kitchen), and the times when you leave the room for a long period (like going out to watch a movie).
You may want to leave the room door slightly ajar and give a contact call which is lower than the bird's screaming call, such as a soft whistle or just the bird's name when you leave the room for a short while.
It is important that the bird recognizes this action and learn to listen to your soft contact call, which tells it that you are still around in the house even when you are out of its sight.
At the start, you may try to leave the bird's room for a few seconds only to get the bird accustomed to your soft contact call and then repeat this process with slightly longer duration in minutes until the bird has reduced or stopped its screaming calls.
Next, you may want to tell the bird that you will be gone for a long time and then close the door when you leave the room.
Make sure you do not return for at least half an hour or more.
By doing the above two actions consistently and repeatedly, the bird will soon begin to differentiate the two types of disappearance of their carers for different durations and the screaming will be reduced.
Another method to reduce or stop the screaming is to provide the bird with playing or destructible toys or giving the bird its favorite food to keep it busy or occupied as busy beaks cannot scream.
A roosting box can also be used for a daytime siesta since birds will not scream when inside their roosting box.
You should look for opportunities to keep your bird occupied with a range of different activities to reduce the boredom or frustrations.
However, when you find the bird is screaming excessively, you may want to leave the room for 5 to 10 minutes and close the door after you leave.
You need to ignore all the contact calls that the bird is giving in order to make the bird realize that its screaming is actually causing you to leave the room but you may need to this many times.
Once the bird has stopped or reduced its screaming calls, you can open the door and approach it with a verbal praise so that the bird now gets the message that its cessation of screaming calls will make you appear in its sight again.
I hope you find these simple tips on how to stop your parrot from screaming useful.
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