birdnerd
07-17-2005, 10:47 PM
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Hello,
My name is Freebird. I am a 10 year old male cockatiel, and I am a beak banger.
I don't remember much of my younger life, but the first thing I clearly remember is being pulled from a box by a human who later became my own special human. I don't recall a whole lot because my feet were really hurting, but I ended up going home with my human and living in a moderate sized rodent cage for a few weeks before being allowed to move into much more spacious quarters with a lovely older hen named Lockheed.
From early on, I started craning my neck really far back and then smacking my beak on stuff: the cage, the perches, the food and water bowls, toys, my human's hand ... all kinds of stuff. Things that made noise were even better than soft things.
I sit and do this for minutes. Sometimes my human will echo what I do by tapping her fingernails on something hard, but it doesn't matter to me whether she does or not.
It's strange. I don't know why I do this. My human has mentioned having another male cockatiel she called Sijon who didn't do this, and neither of my two other cagemates, both hens, have done this. There's a much larger bird with green feathers who will sometimes click his beak on the cage bars a few times, but he doesn't do proper beak banging.
There must be something wrong with me, but I do so enjoy a good beak banging session a few times a day. That's okay, isn't it?
-- Freebird.
Hello,
My name is Freebird. I am a 10 year old male cockatiel, and I am a beak banger.
I don't remember much of my younger life, but the first thing I clearly remember is being pulled from a box by a human who later became my own special human. I don't recall a whole lot because my feet were really hurting, but I ended up going home with my human and living in a moderate sized rodent cage for a few weeks before being allowed to move into much more spacious quarters with a lovely older hen named Lockheed.
From early on, I started craning my neck really far back and then smacking my beak on stuff: the cage, the perches, the food and water bowls, toys, my human's hand ... all kinds of stuff. Things that made noise were even better than soft things.
I sit and do this for minutes. Sometimes my human will echo what I do by tapping her fingernails on something hard, but it doesn't matter to me whether she does or not.
It's strange. I don't know why I do this. My human has mentioned having another male cockatiel she called Sijon who didn't do this, and neither of my two other cagemates, both hens, have done this. There's a much larger bird with green feathers who will sometimes click his beak on the cage bars a few times, but he doesn't do proper beak banging.
There must be something wrong with me, but I do so enjoy a good beak banging session a few times a day. That's okay, isn't it?
-- Freebird.