What Can Cause Your Parrot To Be Nervous? - Hobbies

A nervous parrot is one that has suddenly developed a sudden fear of a person, object or action. This is a learned condition which means that something has happened to the bird to cause it to have a terrible fear reaction to some particular stimulus.

Parrots that have their wings clipped or cannot fly are more susceptible to suffer from nervous conditions since they become frustrated as they cannot escape or fly away from perceived dangers and therefore this will increase their fear. Parrots that have not been wing-clipped usually do not exhibit symptoms of nervousness as compared to clipped birds.

When a nervous parrot is caged or wing-clipped, it may develop severe panic attack as it cannot escape a fearful stimulus. Every little detail of any associated fearful event or object, even if the object may seem harmless, will be remembered by the bird. If this happens, the birds panic reaction will show up again if a similar fearful situation present itself.

Most parrots show nervousness by backing or leaning away from the pain or cause of the problem and the bird will hold its feathers down very tightly. The eyes will be wide and staring, and the bird may prepare to take flight. When this happens, you may need to pause any training session for a few minutes or to another day to let the parrot calm down.

In some cases, a carers response to a bird in a difficult situation may cause the parrot to be nervous. When a parrot crashes into a wall or falls to the floor dazed and confused, and if the carer immediately comes to help it, the parrot will associate the pain or suffering with this, perhaps you and your hands or the dark-color of your shirt, will be seen as part of the problem. So, when the nervous parrot sees these things again, its fear response system will be triggered and cause it to nervous again.

The only way to reduce or eliminate this fear is to get away from the nervous parrots view for a while until it has composed itself or by wearing some light colored clothing. If this happens to resolve the problem, then make sure the nervous parrot is never exposed to such dark colored objects.

There are times when the nervous parrot is being fearful of you and if this happens, you might want to work on a program where you can train or re-train your bird to accept your close approach each day.

I hope you find this information on nervous parrot useful.

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