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My Eco keeps biting holes in all of my shirts. Does anyone have a guess to why this is? Is he scared? or does he not have enough toys to chew on? He has a few chew toys in his cage. Does he just like the texture of fabric on his beak or something? I think it may be the latter, so at the moment I'm making a toy with strips of old t-shirts tied together. Does anyone else's birdie do this? I try to get him to stop because I want him to know that it is unacceptable behavior, so I pull his beak off of my shirt when he starts to bite, but sometimes he isn't ready to give up the shirt and ends up biting me instead. He's a really sweet bird and I don't want the issue of him ruining all of my shirts to interfere with his outside-of-cage playtime.

some people have a special shirt they wear when they have their birds out, this way it doesn't matter if the shirt gets chewed. Personally i would stop the bird doing it thou.
One of my aviary birds has a fascination with black t shirts, when I go in the aviary he comes up and lifts up the bottom of the shirt like hes trying to see up my top he also makes funny noises at black shirts too.

yeah at the bird store i want to get this IRN but my mom doesnt want me to so i just go and hold him like every day lol... but anyway.. every day he climbs up onto my shoulder and makes 1 small hole on my left shoulder right where the seam goes down the arm... its odd but then he doesnt bit it anymore lol

Hey guys I found this blog post if anyone else is having this problem too. Hope this helps.
http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/help-my- ... -shirts-3/