Re: [Freeflight] Digest Number 1497/Calming Signals

[rex <rex@n...>]

Tom Beard <tomasbeard@c...> [2003-05-09 11:02]:
> 
> > It doesn't look like chewing at all. They just open and close the beak
> > rapidly, without any sound and without moving their head. It's definitely a
> > signal because they never do it except to another bird or me.
> 
> Charlie does that too, as with most of my birds signals that they use to
> mean something different depending on the circumstances, he does it when he
> is trying to attract me or when he wants to show his approval or when he is
> indicating that whatever is going on is ok.

That's interesting. I've never heard of a new world parrot doing a
"beak-wave." Could Charlie have learned it from an old world parrot?

-rex