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.

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.

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 : )

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 : (

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 ….

Missing Spike …

I missed spike a lot :’( I will console, my self that spike has started its new life.
My first ringneck parrots rescue is successful …
Even tweety missed her very much. It was sad for few days.
It will go to spikes place and sit there for some time. And it will climb the grill gate were spike used to climb and sit. Since spike used to come home weekly and sit near the tree and in the terrace wall,tweety will always go out to terrace and exchange calls with her.Spike will come with its friends at morning time and in evening time.
So tweety will be prompt in getting up early and will go out to the terrace to meet her buddies, for doing this she will force me to wake up : ) too.
Tweety is so sweet and affectionate,in her presence, I always forget all my worries.

Ringneck parrots escorting characteristics

Spikes 3 ringneck parrot friends came home, to take spike with them.
One of them, sat at our terrace wall. Spike went and sat on the terrace wall near the parrot. Other parrot was sitting on the near by tree. Spike was with the parrot for few min. and it went near other parrot which sat on the cable wire, when it sat near the cable wire.
Two crows sat on the cable and tried attacking spike. Spike did not even fear a bit : )
The three parrots went and sat near spike on both sides.
And started attacking the crows : ) OMG that was an awesome Scene …
Parrots have the amazing characteristics of unity among themselves. They are very good in community living. In few seconds crows disappeared from the spot.
Spike flew back to the terrace after some time. Other parrots came along with spike
And took spike with them. : (
I was happy to see spike go get new family.
But I missed her very much :’(
Spike will come home every week with her buddies : ) it will not come inside home. It will sit on the trees near home. And will be there for few mins….
Spike will be easily differentiable with other parrots. Its size is bigger than the other parrots. Its tail feather was broken when it came home initially.
That feather is still short : ) so when ever spike comes, it can be easily spotted.