I have a couple questions.
I've got a 6 1/2 month old ringneck named Annie (my first bird!) and I can pretty much definitely say she is a female! She lives in my room and waddles around bravely, isn't even scared of my cat at all (my cat is actually scared of her!) and recently even conquered her fear of walking on flat smooth surfaces all by herself. However she shivers a lot which makes me think she's quite a nervous bird. She'll shiver/shake if there are other people around or she's in a new environment which is understandable. But I've noticed she shivers a lot when she's in her cage and you walk up to it. She's very territorial and quite cage-aggressive although if I fluff my hair up (it's naturally quite boofy) to make myself look bigger she'll stand down and let me touch her head (she's not big on being pet but she'll tolerate it a little) and pick her up. Also by cage aggressive I mean she'll lunge at me repeatedly and try to bite, often quite hard. I think she's a little fearful of hands looming over her, too. However I can usually take her out of her cage and touch her in it and she's fine with me taking her bowls in and out to clean/fill them.
Basically it's nothing unmanageable (heck it's nothing at all compared to the last parrot I lived with!) I'm just worried that if she's shivering and nervous a lot it might impact her health later on in life
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Do you think this is something I should worry about or it's no big deal?
Also do parrots get really itchy during molting? Because she scratches a lot and sometimes acts like she's getting bitten. She did have a lice infestation earlier but we treated her and she seemed fine for a while. She's not perpetually cranky like she was during it so I'm thinking it's just from the new feathers coming through?
Wow sorry for the essay and if these are stupid questions!