Odd (maybe?) behaviors
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2016 7:08 pm
Hi,
I have a rescued female ringneck. I've had her about 2 months now. She was very bitey and not hand tame at all at first. We are making good progress. She will now step up on a stick reliably for a pistachio. She clucks to me and puts her head back and makes sweet noises and will let me rub her head through the cage bars when she is doing that. As long as I read her body language and don't push it, I don't get bitten, and we are slowly expanding her comfort zone.
She has several behaviors she does though that I'm curious about. I wonder if they are just idiosyncratic to her or if other ringnecks do them and what they might mean. One is she will sometimes hang by her beak and one leg on the side of the cage and open her wings slightly. I think this behavior happens when she is mad or possibly scared - I don't think it is positive. Has anybody else seen this?
Another happens when she is agitated, possibly jeolous and demanding attention - She bites on something, sometimes cage bar, sometimes a toy, and makes a a really loud call that sounds like a donkey bray or a squeaky door - alternating high/low rapidly with a harsh squeaky character. This is by far her most annoying call.
The most interesting, I think must be a learned imitated sound, maybe a ringtone from wherever she came from (I found her escaped or let go outside). She makes this call when she is happy and trying to get your attention I think, often if you have been paying her attention and just looked away for whatever reason, so it seems as if she is calling you back. It's a rapid 5 note pattern that ends in a longer funny squawk. The funny thing is she always puts her head down on the squawk at the end, often into her bowl or a corner of the cage or any other enclosed space available - it's almost like she is trying to amplify or change the sound of the squawk by making it in an enclosed space.
Does anybody see any behaviors like these in their IRN?
Thanks for your thoughts,
Shannon
I have a rescued female ringneck. I've had her about 2 months now. She was very bitey and not hand tame at all at first. We are making good progress. She will now step up on a stick reliably for a pistachio. She clucks to me and puts her head back and makes sweet noises and will let me rub her head through the cage bars when she is doing that. As long as I read her body language and don't push it, I don't get bitten, and we are slowly expanding her comfort zone.
She has several behaviors she does though that I'm curious about. I wonder if they are just idiosyncratic to her or if other ringnecks do them and what they might mean. One is she will sometimes hang by her beak and one leg on the side of the cage and open her wings slightly. I think this behavior happens when she is mad or possibly scared - I don't think it is positive. Has anybody else seen this?
Another happens when she is agitated, possibly jeolous and demanding attention - She bites on something, sometimes cage bar, sometimes a toy, and makes a a really loud call that sounds like a donkey bray or a squeaky door - alternating high/low rapidly with a harsh squeaky character. This is by far her most annoying call.
The most interesting, I think must be a learned imitated sound, maybe a ringtone from wherever she came from (I found her escaped or let go outside). She makes this call when she is happy and trying to get your attention I think, often if you have been paying her attention and just looked away for whatever reason, so it seems as if she is calling you back. It's a rapid 5 note pattern that ends in a longer funny squawk. The funny thing is she always puts her head down on the squawk at the end, often into her bowl or a corner of the cage or any other enclosed space available - it's almost like she is trying to amplify or change the sound of the squawk by making it in an enclosed space.
Does anybody see any behaviors like these in their IRN?
Thanks for your thoughts,
Shannon