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| Bird cluster (Photo credit:) All species of bird to communicate with the of the flock. |
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| English: A finger bitten by a pet bird. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Avoid engaging with your pet bird when they are overly stimulated and screaming. Let the bird have a cooling off period. |
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| Raggiana Bird of Paradise, Paradisaea raggiana (Photo credit: Wikipedia)These birds use screaming as a security system to keep the flock safe. |
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| Unidentified bird in a bird bath . Birds in your back yard find a reason to be loud. Since it is not at 2am we generally don 't notice how loud birds in the wild are.(Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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| Song learning pathway in birds (Based on Nottebohm, 2005) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
SILENCE means danger! If you’ve ever seen a hawk fly over a flock of wild birds, you swear you can hear the sound of the hawk’s wings flapping. That’s one of the reasons pet birds’ come in so many colors. If they’re quiet and deep in a tree they are difficult to spot. Wild birds- know screaming now is the wrong to do. When that danger passes its chirp, chirp, scream, scream, among the flock. All this post danger screaming means the coast is clear.
Something we hear a lot of is - people will have a screaming bird (usually newbie’s) and the bird will scream for whatever reason. What does their human companion do? Yell SHUT UP! And what does the pet birds do? SCREAM SOME MORE!
. The bird screams, you scream back. Do you think there may be a slight chance that when you scream back the bird might be thinking “hey – this is great! Someone is finally squawking back at me “hey SCREAM, SCREAM, please scream back some more, I’m lonely you’re my flock and I need to talk to someone than you?”
Excessive screaming is a learned behavior that we teach our birds. Covering your feathered companion with a blanket, teaches him or her that you will cover the cage when scream gets out of hand.
Yelling at a screaming pet birds, gives the pet birds the attention it seeks. Ignoring screaming pet birds is not the answer either. Ignoring bird’s screams could result in finding injuries too late (or water had run out). Options are to make sure all your birds needs are satisfied. Large hygienic cages, clean water, fresh food, working toys are all needed to keep your pet bird happy and less inclined to engage in attention demanding screaming. Remember your bird needs 8 to 12 hours of uninterrupted sleep. Maybe if you create a more tranquil napping environment for your bird , the bird will not scream and let you actually get some sleep.
You can create aa signal to stop loud pet birds. Ring a cowbell (or bang a pot) in the room next to the screaming bird. They hear the bell (sound), they stop to listen to the noise, because the sound is new and grabs the attention of the bird. If you then, show up from the other room while they are quiet. Now you reward the quiet behavior with treats and attention. This makes the bird much more likely to succeed at learning there is a time and place to make loud noises. If quiet time is rewarded, then being quiet becomes an activity that pays of more to the bird than being loud to get attention. to praise and reward.
Creating A Controlled Screaming Hours
Use a time when you know your birds are quite loud. Distract the pet bird with a loud unfamiliar sound from the next room. Then you come out with some very significant rewards( such as cheese or dried egg) and verbal praise..Lengthen the time between the signal and your appearance each time. Try and take a whole day at first and only work with the pet birds and the screaming. Initial rewards should be substantial, a known favorite treat. Use the same signal just before feeding fresh food. Not all pet bird’s will quiet down for the same signal so you may have to try several noises before finding the one that works for you.
Note: Do not use your voice. They may try to mimic you.
Scream time is a time during the day that you allow your pet birds to be noisy. This should be given somewhere between 3p.m. and 7p.m. each day. Encourage your pet birds by playing stimulating music. aDance, sing or scream along with them. Scream time should last no less than 15minutes and no more than 1/2 hour each day.
Some pet birds enjoy screaming to the vacuum, this is fine to encourage but play music as well. Find music that your pet bird gets excited over. Use that same song every day for scream time. Change the music from time to time but be consistent overall. When Scream time is over, lower the music volume Talk your pet birds down. Lower the music slowly, turn it off, and play their relaxation code music. Give them afternoon snacks when “cool down” is over.
Birds will wait for their "Scream Time” because they know they will be rewarded for their patience.
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