Friends of my ringneck parrot

I have some small wooden birds at home. With those some times, I use them, to dodge tweety : )
Some times tweety when gets over my hand it will not get down easily.
Some times it will get down very soon, some times it will not get down Immediately.
So for making her go back to her place, I will place few wooden birds at her place near her food: )
Tweety does not like any birds to go near her chair and her place. I saw her full form anger when I brought my friends parrot home…
So if I keep any wooden birds. It will walk down my hand and try to attack the wooden bird. Tweety slowly started realizing about the wooden bird , And stopped responding to it….
I thought of buying a pair, for Tweety from the bird shop. I was not able to get young ringneck parrot in shops : (
Tweety never felt uncomfortable being alone at home. It always like to go out for bird watch. So when ever I take tweety to the terrace it will be very happy. So I thought of getting some good, friends for tweety. I first thought about cocktails but they are bigger in size than my young ringneck parrot. So I thought about cute little budgies,which will be the best choice for my tweety. Tweety had good quality of making friends easily.
Except crows all the birds which comes near home are my tweetys friends. It has even, squirrel friends : ).

Ringneck parrot thought process

Ringneck parrots are clever parrots. They have good thinking process.
My tweety always like to go out to the terrace, Whether it’s a day or night, it likes to stay out for some time. If its night time it likes to go to terrace only if the light is switched on.
Some times when the climate is cold I will rather switch off the light to avoid going out. I could not dodge tweety for a long time by avoiding switching on the light.
Usually tweety will stand on my hand and bend its head towards the direction it want to go : ) we should take her as per her move. If we don’t take her, she will start making loud calls.
So I always take her where ever she likes to go.
One day I was surprised to see, tweetys behavior. As usual I took her from my room to the hall without taking her to terrace. It suddenly turned her face and bend towards the switch : ). That to exactly on the terrace light switch. I could not believe my eyes ..
It exactly touched her beak on the terrace lighting switch. I took her off from the switch and I switched on the switch by myself. Once I on the switch, immediately it turned towards the terrace : ) and started bending towards the terrace with slow whispering
sound : ) . i took her out to terrace finally..
Tweety, my youngest ringneck parrot learnt how to switch on the light : )
From that day, if it likes to go out at night it will try to touch its beak on the light switch to put the light on…

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.

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.

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 : )