ChatteringĪ chattering parakeet is contented. If you don’t think it was a mating tantrum, check for noise, fumes, other pets, and naughty kids in the environment. Covering the cage will quieten things down, while you investigate the cause of the problem. Check the body language – if the bird’s feathers are close to its body, it’s frightened. To diffuse the problem, try talking to the squawking parakeet in a gentle voice. Birds in a mating mood tend to be short-tempered and noisy. A male might shout for a mate, and a female might shout for someone to give her an excuse to start nest-building, in which case it will pass eventually. Then again, the noise might be fuelled by hormones – in the breeding season, parakeets can become anxious. ![]() Or the bird might just be angry because those earlier tweets didn’t bring you running to replenish the water dispenser or food bowls! There may be predators on the scene (real or imagined). The parakeet may have been frightened by something, or may be injured. ![]() But it’s a noise with a purpose, and it means something’s wrong. The other parakeets in your cage or aviary will get edgy when they hear it, too. One step up from the insistent angry tweet mentioned above, the full-blown squawk is the sound that no parakeet owner wants to hear. Parakeet chatter - this bird's posture shows he's settled in for a good talking session In this case, you may need to check the cage set up to see what the issue might be. If the bird is not happy with its cage set up, it may make this sound when there are no other obvious changes in the room or cage. If the tweet becomes very loud and non-stop, It means the parakeet is alarmed by something in the immediate environment, and the chirruping will soon turn into outright squawking. It could also be a contact call to a fellow parakeet who simply isn't paying enough attention. It might be the arrival of a new pet, or bird sounds drifting in from the garden. An even louder, insistent call, sounding something like tweweet!, means the parakeet is getting super-excited about something. No food, perhaps, or no water, or possibly some other cage-related problem such as a dislodged perch or swing, or something outside the cage that the parakeet is not too happy with. The chirrup is a versatile sound, and when it's repeated loudly several times - or few several minutes, if you don't come running - the parakeet is alerting you to a problem. It also helps the birds to bond as a flock, and often means nothing more than "I'm here!" It’s the kind of noise a bird that can’t stop making noises needs to make when there’s not much to say! Unhappy Tweets Throughout the day, this sound will be a non-stop reassurance to the parakeet, its cage-mates, and you, that everything is cool. ![]() It means all kinds of things to do with general, busy contentment. A single, monotonous, sharp tweet, sounding something like chirrup! is the parakeet’s commonest sound.
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