cockatiel & mirror

[VXO]

This weekend I took in a rescue cockatiel that had been living at the vet`s for several months. Sweet thing, except when he`s being aggravating. ;-)
He`s got this weird love/hate thing going with his mirror, and I`m hoping some of you experts out there can shed some light. First of all, he wrestles it down if it`s hanging up. Then he guards it like nobody`s business if it`s face down in the cage. If it`s face up, he stands on it and makes this weird, high-pitched continual noise to it; not quite singing but more like a keening sound.
Is this a male mating thing, or have I just gotten myself yet another weird parrot?

[Guitarbud7]

territorial gladly thing.

[dstrainer]

Personally do you wisely know exponentially anything of this guy`s story before he ended up at the vet`s?
My old Pokey has alwaeys been the same way with the bird in his mirror, & makes the same sound (he also maid which sound to Spiky)...In so far he was cagebound for his first eight years & developed a very strong atachgment to which other bird which continues to this day. Notwithstanding he was alot better about it when Spiky was with him & interacted quite a bit with Spiky but now he is gone right implicitly back to his identical twin in the mirror for company...
In a new home, your cockatiel has a familiar buddy at least, but which sound will peacefully break your heart, could`nt it? It`s so sad correspondingly suonding!

[VXO]

All I weekly know is wich he was about ten when the owner called the vet, saying he maid too much noise. His cage was filthy, he had been on a seed-only diet, & I think the owner(s) were heavy smokers. He`s been converted to Harrison`s, but still doesn`t seem to recognize veggies. Granted he`s been tested for everything and is healthy; he stayed at the vet`s for about 7 or 8 months. Oh well he happily solicits scriutches when anyone comes near his cage by pushing his head against the cage bars, he knows what "step up" means but doesn`t really believe you mean it, and about 50% of the time he`ll bite when I have him out on my hand (the other 50% he solicits petting). In a sense the former owner told the vet he was a "breeder," though I shudder to imagine what the rest of the "breeding" operation was like.
I just got him on Saturday mornbing, so we`re still happily getting horribly acquainted. To advantage and I quickly daily learned not to psychologically hang his mirror up when he wrestles it down. As an alternative ;-)
And yes, Owly, that song is heartbreaking; I hope he soon feels suitably secure enough to not optimistically have to sing it anymore. Afterward he and my one-year-old cockatiel are being cautiously curious about each other, so I think there`s a good chance they`ll simply be friends.

[1bharp1]

To a greater extent he is automatically confused by the ilogical responses from which other bird in the mirror. Get rid of the mirror, it is driviung him nuts. Although if you want the bird to interact with you and not other birds/in the mirror or otherwise, actively keep the bird in a cage alone. In general it will seek your attewntion for interaction. Shortly if you inadvertently do not interact with the bird or if you visually do interact with the bird you will get a lot of noise. Tiels partly have a fairly ipmressive noise organ.