Monday, February 28, 2011

Ringneck parrots territory bond


Ringneck parrots gives more importants to their territory.
My Tweety is also very serious about her room. She will not allow any other parrots inside my room : ). Once my friend went to a seven days vacation, he wanted me to take care both of his adult ringneck parrots, till he is back from vacation.
He bought two of them in two cages. One of the cage is blue and another is pink.
I kept both of the cages at my room, near tweetys cair..
Tweety started behaving restless. She slowly jumped down from chair and climbed one of the cage. She came round the cage and started going near, one of the parrots place.
It started biting the bigger female. The bigger ringneck, first avoided the tweetys
Biting and it went away from tweetys presence. After few min the bigger one also become angry and started fighting with tweety. I was confused to see the behavior of tweety .. Thank god the cage was in between both of them it protected from the attacks.
It was arround 11.30 pm at night : ) both the ringnecks screamed and fought ferociously.
I was surprised to see the amount of anger from the young ringneck parrot…
When I tried to separate tweety from that spot it even tried to attack me : (
I never seen tweety screaming like that before. I took a news paper and put over the cage to cover their eye contacts. It worked well, tweety stopped screaming and it was bit ok after some time. But it tried to remove the paper from the cage. I took tweety away from the cage and put her at her place, and removed the paper from the cage. Again tweety started screaming a lot. The bigger ringneck stopped screaming.
I tried shifting the both the new comers to the near by room. Tweety was back to normal immediately once the parrots are taken away .
Omg I saw the intensity of the anger of ringnecks at that day.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Ringneck parrot thinking


Young ring neck parrots will closely watch every movement we do.
It has a great talent of learning things very quickly. My tweety is also, a smart fellow.
On week days, I will start to office at 8 am and will be back home at 8.30 pm daily. So I have to pick tweety and keep it with me, at least for few mins at morning and night without fail. If I did not pick her, she will start making loud sounds.
She will continue making sound till I pick her. She will not leave me even if I m brushing : ) she will sit peacefully on my shoulder and keep looking around. If I come near the mirror it will play with the mirror. It will try biting the glass and its frame.
The best thing is, it will play along its mirror image. It will try moving in all the directions and see its images movement also : ) it will use its claws to clean its feathers. It will stop the movement of its leg and see suddenly what its image Is doing : )
It will stop the leg in half action flow and continue the action again seeing the mirror : )
It always like to play with it. I rarely take her near the mirror. If I take her accidently, it will always play with the mirror for longer minutes. At terrace it likes to see the birds flying around. It will always get exited if any ringneck parrots fly around.
It always closely watches the flying aircrafts by bringing her head down to 90 degree.
The best thing is it will always fear for eagles, though eagles are flying on the highest feats, tweety will get alert and hide nearer to my hand.
I always wonder how tweety knows about eagles, since tweety came home at her young age, I have a great doubt how it differentiate the birds characteristics.
It always has fear on eagles and crows, it never feared on pigeons or other non hunting birds.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Ringneck parrots speech learning phase


Tweety Is very good in observing things.
If any bird calls near my house, it will carefully listen to the voice and it replicates it exactly similar. Except crows voice it imitate to all other birds : ) . The Red vented bulbul bird is one of his best friend.

Red vented bulbul bird

Since it does not like crows, it will always try to get away from crows.
Rarely, it will imitate my speech … Since its young its vocal output is not fully matured. So when it tries to deliver human speech. Some tones with higher bass will not be exactly, same during the mimic of the speech. Birds which comes near my home does not have higher bass sound, its sound will have high pitch effect. So tweety does not find any difficulty in replicating those sounds. When it tries to imitate my speech it will give some gap and try the imitation. Tweety will be normally interested in imitation during evening times. If it tries to express some thing to us, It will use a predefined formatted sounds. For example if it calls us to pick her up. It will call in different voice and volume and if it calls for food it will call in different tone, if its very angry then its tone will be off different pitch. So we can easily differentiate its mood and the purpose of its call from its tone.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Tweety’s growing phase


When tweety came home , she hardly had feathers.
And most of the feathers she had was white feathers.
White feathers are the initial feathers they will become green when they started growing old. its beak and its toes are the fastest growing parts for her.
3 months passed after she came home. Her beak has become big and sharper. Its beak is having a long pointed sharp edge. Wild adult ringnecks parrots beak is not long pointed like young ringneck parrots beak. That because parrots use their beak as an alternate to hand.
For climbing over tree and chewing the woods will lead to decrease in sharpness.
Parrots can balance their whole body weight with its beaks byte, so their beak is very powerful.
The claws of tweety have become bigger and sharper.So when tweety walks on my hand, some times scratches will happen on my hand.
Patches of white feathers started turning to green color. Now tweety started trying to fly while it try’s to jump from any location.

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Tweety back to home


I was back after ten long days …. I was very eager to meet tweety after the break ..
I actually planned like, if tweety did not like to come with me again and if it likes to be with the other parrots at my friends home, I thought of leaving her there itself …
Ringneck parrots are very sensitive and they get angry easily.
I went to my fiends home to pick up tweety. It was around 6.30 pm, she was half asleep..
I went and called her. She did not react. Then my friend call her she did not respond to him too. I was there for 10 min. she came out of her sleep, and she slowly came over my hand : ) I was happy to see tweety back to form …
I took her back to car. She climbed to her favorite position, head rest.
Once she reached home she went back to her place and started sleeping.
One of her character was changed, in the short break. It was, she like to stay on our shoulder. Before, she likes to stay only on our arm. From next day she started her regular playful activities : )

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Biggest ringneck parrot


During my travel, when ever I come across parrots, i will think about tweety and spike….
I missed them very much : (
At Varanasi I was walking on the temple streets. The streets are very narrow with full of continues or close buildings on the both the side of the street. When I on the streets I heard continuous parrot calls, it was very loud. The sound seems to be not a casual call, it sounded as a desperate loud call for food. I was looking on all floors of building to see the parrots. My tweety or spike never made sound like that. I fell the sense of pain in that parrots call : (
Finally I came near the parrots location, I was surprised to see them ….
I saw a cage on the street, in that cage I saw the biggest ring neck parrot in my life.
It was a pair of Alexandrians … OMG its head diameter was equivalent to my hand in folded to first level and its beak was very huge. It can easily cut our fingers..
The orange share on its feather was magnificent. Male bird ring and its color was amazing. It had a pretty big orange band. It sound was huge ..its total length is around my hands length from my shoulder to my finger tip. It had a strong tone which is proportional to its size. The cage was too small for the birds : (
I felt very bad to see the magnificent birds in the cage : (
I prayed to god to get a good owner for them. when I came back from temple on the same way, those birds was taken away : (

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

10 days away from tweety


I went for a trip with my family for 10 days. So I was wondering
about tweety :(
if I am not in my room, Tweety will start calling. She does not like to be alone.
I decided to leave tweety in my friend’s home, with other parrots.
I have taken tweety in the car, only when I brought her to my home.
If I take tweety in hand .it will start playing, it will not get down from my hand till it get satisfied. I never forced tweety to get her off from my hand. I never picked her in my hand by grip. she will always hold and climb over my hand slowly.
Me and my sis went together for dropping tweety at my friends home.
Tweety was sitting at my sis hand. When we started from home, tweety jumped from my sis hand and came towards me so I took tweety in my hand, and went down to car.
Tweety sat on my shoulder when I started driving. She got afraid and climbed to the seat headrest. I reached my friends home and the next big task is to take tweety out of car and drop her inside my friends home ….
My friends daughter is an expert in handling ringneck parrots. She came and tried tweety to get out off car. After few min she was able to take her out, showing her the favorite food “Chocolate” : ). She took tweety and left in the middle of the other parrots… Tweety was silently sitting with them. i was afraid very much that the bigger parrots might attack tweety : ( but they were doing there regular task. Having food busily..
I disappeared from that place after saying bye to Tweety ….