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From: mary@dinorah.wustl.edu (Mary E. Leibach)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: pet birds that have the fly of the house
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Date: 23 Oct 89 17:21:45 GMT
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In-reply-to: stewartw@warpdrive.UUCP's message of 20 Oct 89 16:01:28 GMT

stewartw@warpdrive.UUCP (Stewart Winter) writes:

>The bobbing of the head is a
>prelude to regurgitation (a true sign of affection).

Prelude it may be, but none of my birdies, including him, regurgitate
to me.  Vila has also done this to music that has a good beat.  Maybe
he is trying to dance too?  

>This means that
>your bird has pair-bonded to you.  There can be some downsides to this
>behaviour (jealousy, etc.),

I can believe that.  The way he acts sometimes you would think he is
glued to me.  Anytime I give his cockatiel cage mate any attention,
there he is to push Cally away and have all the attention to himself.
But if he loves me so, why does he so delight in biting me hard and
listening to me yelp?  That, and being scratched are his ideas of
quality time spent with me.

He is only eight months old.  Isn't Vila a little young for this?

>but it means your bird is in love with you ...
>what more could someone ever ask for.

:-)

Thanks for answering.

	-Mary