Cassie acting strange this morning

[Chrissy and Flock]

Cassie did something this morning that I have never seen or heard her do before... she was yelling (not screaming but close) at 6:30am, she is usually very quiet in the mornings... well I think I now know what her problem is... I was on my way back from the doggy groomers and I saw a hawk flying around the neighborhood.... my birdy room has lots of window and two large skylights... Can they sense when birds like that are around? because her cage was covered...

[Evelyn]

Cassie did something this morning that I have never seen or heard her do before... she was yelling (not screaming but close) at 6:30am, she is usually very quiet in the mornings... well I think I now know what her problem is... I was on my way back from the doggy groomers and I saw a hawk flying around the neighborhood.... my birdy room has lots of window and two large skylights... Can they sense when birds like that are around? because her cage was covered...


I would think so. Otherwise, they wouldn't survive long in the wild.

Mine aren't disturbed about what goes on outside. I guess they know they are safe inside. But let some kind of bug get anywhere near them, and you would think they are going to die. Even little, bitty bugs. If they didn't so scared, it would be funny.

Evelyn

[bonnie]

We don't have preditor birds around here, that I have ever seen, but things going on outside do scare Chicken from time to time. The wild birds, cats, people etc he sees through his window will sometimes make him scream. Maybe some blinds for the windows?

[Larry, Baby and Me]

Hey Chrissy,

Several things come into play here. Prey birds have poor night vision and their smellers ain't so good either - however their sense of hearing is far superior to ours. The can hear faint sounds and higher pitches than we can. They can also see things we cannot. We can see red, green, and blue (RGB) where a bird can see ultra-violet in addition to these colors. We have 3 cones in our eyes and they have 4. So when we think our bird is halucinating - seeing something that is not there --- they see it but we cannot.

The "sensing" you mentioned --- perhaps she heard the Hawk and you did not. That is only a guess - but it is a pretty good guess.

How did she "know" what she heard was something that could eat her for lunch??? I have come to the conclusion through many years of research and study that all living things have built-in hard-wired information. It is called "inate". They are born with knowing certain things. Some things are learned such as social behavior and how to find food and what to eat, but certain survival knowledge is with them from birth. Humans have inate knowledge as well as all living things. Humans are born with less of it than outher mamals. So - Cassie was born with knowing the sound of a preditor such as the Hawk.

Parrots have been on this earth for over 100 million years - they were here when the dinosaurs roamed the earth. Dinosaurs and all living things bigger than a house cat went extinct - except for parrots. So - they have certain strong survival skills and knowledge where the others did not.

You might find this article I wrote, based on my research, interesting...

http://www.happybirdy.com/inheritedknowledge.htm

[too&me]

They can hear more than we can & do see shadows moving along the ground. she may have heard the Hawk call through the walls even if you could not.

[Julie]

Chrissy,

When we lived in the Los Angeles are, my birds would start to flock/scared call about 10 - 15 seconds BEFORE we would experience an earth quake.

They know a lot more than we realize....

[Patty, Linus and Co.]

Chrissy,

The answer to your question is YES! They do know when a parrot is around. There is a red-tailed hawk that figured out where my birds live. He makes it his business to know what's going on and will swoop by my sliding glass doors and scare the you-know-what out of Linus. He has made his presence known when I've been outside with Linus although he keeps his distance from me. The hawk isn't really very big, but big enough to cause injury at least.

Patty

[Chrissy and Flock]

I believe she did hear it... I have the windows open because the evening air felt so good and I forgot to close them... so any sounds from outside were louder than usual for her.... Thanks for all the input...

[Dot]

Hey Chrissy,

Several things come into play here. Prey birds have poor night vision and their smellers ain't so good either - however their sense of hearing is far superior to ours. The can hear faint sounds and higher pitches than we can. They can also see things we cannot. We can see red, green, and blue (RGB) where a bird can see ultra-violet in addition to these colors. We have 3 cones in our eyes and they have 4. So when we think our bird is halucinating - seeing something that is not there --- they see it but we cannot.

The "sensing" you mentioned --- perhaps she heard the Hawk and you did not. That is only a guess - but it is a pretty good guess.

How did she "know" what she heard was something that could eat her for lunch??? I have come to the conclusion through many years of research and study that all living things have built-in hard-wired information. It is called "inate". They are born with knowing certain things. Some things are learned such as social behavior and how to find food and what to eat, but certain survival knowledge is with them from birth. Humans have inate knowledge as well as all living things. Humans are born with less of it than outher mamals. So - Cassie was born with knowing the sound of a preditor such as the Hawk.

Parrots have been on this earth for over 100 million years - they were here when the dinosaurs roamed the earth. Dinosaurs and all living things bigger than a house cat went extinct - except for parrots. So - they have certain strong survival skills and knowledge where the others did not.

You might find this article I wrote, based on my research, interesting...

http://www.happybirdy.com/inheritedknowledge.htm

My hand reared RFM knows what a snake is and gives the macaw warning yell. There are still ghosts roaming this neighborhood trying to find their way home after she "woke the dead." :rofl:

[Chrissy and Flock]

My hand reared RFM knows what a snake is and gives the macaw warning yell. There are still ghosts roaming this neighborhood trying to find their way home after she "woke the dead." :rofl:

Dot that is too funny... :rofl::rofl::rofl:

my SIL that used to own Cassie well they used to have a 6' long snake of some kind..(I dont do snakes) they used to carry Cassie into the same room the snake was in just to make her scream and raise holy h@!!... That used to make me so mad ... any one could tell the poor girl was scared to death... they thought it was funny.grrr:mad:

[Dot]

Dot that is too funny... :rofl::rofl::rofl:

my SIL that used to own Cassie well they used to have a 6' long snake of some kind..(I dont do snakes) they used to carry Cassie into the same room the snake was in just to make her scream and raise holy h@!!... That used to make me so mad ... any one could tell the poor girl was scared to death... they thought it was funny.grrr:mad:

Please don't tell me things like this. It really hurts me. I am the list wimp. I just can't believe it. I can just picture it so vividly and I want to cry.

[bonnie]

Dot that is too funny... :rofl::rofl::rofl:

my SIL that used to own Cassie well they used to have a 6' long snake of some kind..(I dont do snakes) they used to carry Cassie into the same room the snake was in just to make her scream and raise holy h@!!... That used to make me so mad ... any one could tell the poor girl was scared to death... they thought it was funny.grrr:mad:

That is SO cruel...
GRRR!!!!!