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Amazons : Jealous Amazon?
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From: The Princess of Chicken  (Original Message)Sent: 4/2/2007 5:23 PM
 
Good morning from The Princess in Boston.  Raining here, too, but I'm grateful:  it could very well be snow.
 
A question:  why does a twenty-nine-year-old, probably female green-cheek Amazon fly off a perch and deliberately try to whack me in the head?  This has been going on for a long time, especially when I handle certain items she thinks are "hers".  I've gotten pretty good at ducking, but she still gets me from time to time.  Does anyone have a clue about this behavior?  It's a year-round thing. 
 
Also, she goes into a biting frenzy in the morning when I'm getting her food ready.  This is a fairly recent (less than a year) behavior.  It's a little annoying because she seems to be interested in biting my shoulders right where the incisions were for shoulder surgery.
 
Any advice would be gratefully appreciated.
 
Barbara
The Princess' mother


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From: MSN NicknameScots101Sent: 4/2/2007 5:42 PM
From: <NOBR>MSN NicknameScots101</NOBR> Sent: 4/2/2007 10:25 AM
I always considerd when an Amazon flew at me intentionally it was jealousy, even though all I may have been carrying around was the remote for the TV...
But that is one bird in particular... a Green cheek Amazon
Barbara I do feel for you as I too have had to duck before I realized Scarlet actually wanted to land on me as the others did who flew to me.
Scarlet nips at my clothing, wearing holes on the shoulders and neck and this can drive me insane so I pull at my clothing and throw him off balance....
Scarlet flies at my son, not too him, and can be pretty hateful... again jealousy...
Not very helpful I'm afraid .... also do me a favor as this is an interesting subject...
can you start a new post on this subject... just cut and paste...thanks...

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From: The Princess of ChickenSent: 4/2/2007 9:36 PM
Thanks for the reply.

As soon as I get home from work, I have to change because most of my hang-around clothes now have lace collars from The Princess using them as a beak brush.

The jealousy theory is probably right, but I'm the only other breathing life form. She gets particularly airborne when I move my goose-neck reading light. I have to put it on the floor every morning because she likes to stand on the neck but knocks it over when she takes off, thus breaking once again another high-intensity (read expensive) bulb.

Thanks again,
Barbara

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From: MSN NicknameScots101Sent: 4/2/2007 9:43 PM

I'm still trying to get questions together that might narrow the reason for the GC responses... something is setting the little bugger off... maybe he wants you to STAND STILL....

This is no laughing matter as a knock on the head from a moving missile ain't fun...


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From: MSN NicknameScots101Sent: 4/2/2007 9:44 PM
 lost my emotion there...

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From: MSN NicknameScots101Sent: 4/2/2007 11:38 PM
Barbara look in your email as I sent you a Yahoo Site group that deals with nothing but behaviour issues and has some indepth reading articles...
Too2

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From: The Princess of ChickenSent: 4/3/2007 9:11 PM
Under no circumstances am I standing still while holding that lamp. She managed a sneak attack last night and bashed me a good one. I'm wondering if she thinks it's a competitor as she does the telephone because I talk to it.

My ducking skills are superb, but I'd like to be the human in the room once a while. I did get your message for the Yahoo, but trying to register onto Yahoo has more hoops than a scene from Gone with the Wind.

For now, I will keep ducking. She's too sweet a Princess to let a little habit like wacking me in the head spoil things.

Barbara

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