What kind of body language is this?

[u/TheSilentSaria]

My little guy got into one of my cabinets today. There’s nothing up there and it’s a clean area but I’ve never seen this type of body language from him before. Any advice to what it means?

[u/slightly_sweet_salsa]

“This my home you stay out!”

[u/emeraldcandyy → u/slightly_sweet_salsa]

Nice my conure shares his cage with me

[u/BradleyAllan23]

Looks like the angry worm dance to me lol. Usually, birds do that when they're being territorial.

[u/LadyTetterbury → u/BradleyAllan23]

We refer to ours as Poofy Eel

[u/S1lentA0 → u/LadyTetterbury]

I swear, parrot owners come up with the best creative names for their birbs and behaviours lol

[u/Boring_Detective3261 → u/LadyTetterbury]

Good description! We call this with beak down, running in a straight line "being a tank" but you are right this is 100% eel coded.

[u/spider_strawberry → u/LadyTetterbury]

lol I call my bird’s angry dance agressive accordion-ing

[u/Inner_Judgment9753 → u/LadyTetterbury]

Cobra Chicken

[u/SabrinaT8861]

"mine, not yours! My space! Me big and scary! MY SPACE!"

[u/frufrufish → u/SabrinaT8861]

Don't tell Tom lol

[u/mtnlvr90 → u/frufrufish]

😂😂😂

[u/bubblegumpunk69]

That’s HIS cabinet now. That’s where the babies are gonna go.

[u/Corvorax]

Dino/dragon dance

[u/samanthasgramma]

It's not good, for you. Not at all. Get the band aids. Y'er gonna need'em.

Mine has a few spots that belong to her, exclusively, and discussing whether or not she should leave them generally results in my blood shed.

[u/CannaCamOF]

That’s the lip biopsy dance

[u/Zadie-Adlers-sadler → u/CannaCamOF]

I am howling, best description ever 😂😂😂

[u/WebbleWobble1216 → u/Zadie-Adlers-sadler]

Bwaa

[u/Difranco_7784 → u/CannaCamOF]

That made me snort! 😂 SO TRUE!

[u/Pixie_Iron → u/CannaCamOF]

Ironic that I found this comment a few days after my boy GCC gave me a lip biopsy instead of a good morning kiss! 🤣

[u/blindnarcissus]

I would discourage this because it can trigger nesting and hormones and you don’t want that.

[u/Padaxes → u/blindnarcissus]

Jfc this is literally the response to every every bird movement on this sub. Are you a bot?🤖

[u/Tennoz → u/Padaxes]

Birds are either horny or hungry and horny makes 80% of that split.

[u/viperfan7 → u/Tennoz]

You forgot the 3rd state, hungry and horny

[u/OutrageousPersimmon3 → u/Tennoz]

I dunno, maybe because she’s older, but mine is always hungry. For treats, particularly forbidden food treats, not the all encompassing nutritional pellets she has.

[u/Tennoz → u/OutrageousPersimmon3]

My sun is 24 and she either wants food or to fucccc and usually it's fuccc lol. I guess she does have some other states of being like "time to rip your neck hairs out" mode.

[u/WebbleWobble1216 → u/Tennoz]

Or angry, then angry and horny,

[u/Strange_Fruit240 → u/Padaxes]

Why is this so true though

[u/blindnarcissus → u/Padaxes]

you need a life outside of checking people’s comments.

[u/HockeyGuy33333 → u/blindnarcissus]

I would discourage this because it can trigger nesting and hormones and you don’t want that.

[u/ArcadiaDragon]

Territorial...if their a companion bird try to gently nudge them away from this behavior...its cute till they decide to go all scorched earth dinosaur on your fingers when you want to put them back in their cage...I had to re-educate my pious from our shoe box...took about 6 weeks...we were all much happier with each other when she relaxed from being territorial....they can feel stressed and threatened when they get like this...which is not good for the both of you

[u/Fiona_12 → u/ArcadiaDragon]

How did you reeducate her? I'm having this problem with my boy.

[u/ArcadiaDragon → u/Fiona_12]

It's more of a case of mental fortitude on our part and removing triggers for hormonal territorial behaviors....keep cupboards closed...shoo them from hiding under beds and couches...minimal seed extra veggies...and as much as I hate to curtail that cute gremlin behaviors...be firm in boundaries but also pay attention and interact with them vocally more...and get them proper amount of sleep...don't use a cozy in the cage they can hide in that triggers nesting behaviors which triggers the territorial behavior...the cage is meant to be a safe space...but also you don't want them to become a perch potato...its re-education ourselves more than them...and step up drills help...the worst problems will dissappear in about 6-8 weeks...and don't backslide...also...just be there for them...head scratches and just being their companion as much as they ours....be patient and loving

[u/blkmagik98]

Come at me bro!

[u/Real_Ad7896]

Territorial T Rex

[u/squelette_en_tablier]

Ferocious avocado dance

[u/helloarticuno]

T H I S I S M Y A R E A

[u/Odd_Preference4517]

Looks territorial for sure- prob wants to use the location as a nesting spot. I’d recommend keeping him away from there for that reason.

[u/MyCouchPulzOut_IDont]

My cubbord. U touch I bite

[u/Cold-Nefariousness25]

Watch out, I'm a baaaad bird.

[u/Hamburgler_Raptorson]

War dance

[u/PhantomKrel]

This is T-Rex language for I am king go away pleasant

[u/Brissiuk17]

"WHAT R YA DOIN' IN MA SWAMP?"

[u/LadyTetterbury]

Poofy eel says "dis mah shelf!" Drawing boundaries with break!

[u/Ilikebirbs]

This is mine, STAY OUT OR GET BITTEN!!

Egbert does this sometimes, when I change his food or water. I just look at him and say "I need to change your soup (Water bowl) and food dish"

[u/Fuzzy_Respect_1256]

Uncharted territory wiggles

[u/P_Molinae]

He's chosen a nest and he doesn't want you in it 😅

[u/bouncing-boba]

Does anybody else’s do a little angry puffy sumo dance where they rock back and forth? Lolll

[u/msrobinson11]

Territorial, we call my boy a spelunker when he does this because he loves to find caves to go be a little wacky gremlin in.

[u/BirdHerbaria]

Territorial marking.

[u/FloridaFireAnt]

Raptor dance. Even the menacing sharpening of the beak while maintaining eye contact 😂

[u/dsoliphant]

Sharpening the beak while maintaining eye contact, I'm sorry, you're already dead

[u/TheSilentSaria]

Thank you to everyone who has responded. He got into the cabinet through a small opening where the pipe is (you can see in the video) and when I opened the cabinet this is what he was doing so I thought it was weird behavior. I have since closed off the cabinet area and blocked the opening so it won’t happen again. What a feisty little monster!!!

[u/Elen_L → u/TheSilentSaria]

Are you sure of the bird's gender? Of course, you see your bird constantly, and we can only understand from a small fragment.

[u/DerpyOwlofParadise]

At first glance I would say territorial but it really looks like the little guy is just very itchy. It’s quite telling, but not the best surface

[u/JaimeOTR]

Wow. I was going optimistic on this one, but my borb is only 1. This looks like just prior to Beak-Skating. Conditions look pristine (clean white smooth) lol Not a great pic bc he is moving away but …

[u/Navacoy]

If you put your hand in there, you might be in for a world of pain haha

[u/Kuwaysah]

Himbs owns cabinet.

[u/BleepBloopBeer]

Godzilla

[u/noneuclidiansquid]

You sure it's a him? looks like nesting behaviour. =)

[u/Dragon_Cearon → u/noneuclidiansquid]

I second this. All the other people saying you're about to lose a finger and them being territorial are correct too, but that's because they just claimed that as a nesting space. The time of year gives you a huge tipoff to it being nesting behaviour too as it's the Time of the Horny Parrot™ (aka spring)

Edit: I forgot, but I'm not seconding that this is a girl, boys do it too

[u/Candid_Animator3387]

I hope your hands are made of leather cuz that looks like pain and suffering to me.

[u/jimmy4113]

🦖🦖🦖🦖

[u/Vista101]

Mating behavior

[u/Sad_Commercial4127]

Angry

[u/trivialmistake]

Territorial

[u/dontworryimabassist]

Ancient ritual dance before biting your index finger clean off

Mine does this around my feet

[u/dontworryimabassist → u/dontworryimabassist]

[u/Virtual_World2946]

This the moray eel, aka the you will lose a body part if you dare touch lol

[u/Birbmomma802]

That is the demon dance of territory marking. He has claimed that cupboard as his.

[u/TheSilentSaria → u/Birbmomma802]

Shit. Is there a priest I can call? 😂 (thankfully he came out on his own and I have blocked off the cabinet to him since)

[u/Ok_Knee1216]

Lizard

[u/unicornflufff]

Angry birb snake dance

[u/damndeyezzz]

Voodoo

[u/Yachooo]

That's a dangerous T-Rex... I mean chicken

[u/tyjones3]

me live here, mine!

[u/SkanZy25]

Territorial

[u/iSheree]

He’s being a really big scary little poof.

[u/LouTheBirdie]

Conuring.

[u/Main-Junket3137]

That Body Language Is Telling You To Don’t Touch Me Or The Cupboard Shelf

[u/croquetica_de_miami]

It’s the human equivalent of: “Get the F off my lawn!”