Charlie and Ollie my other IRNs love peek-a-boo and to race and ‘bounce’ across the floors/tables/anything. Ollie spends a lot of time playing with Sam flying around the house.

Charlie is my only non flighted bird, he came to me like that 4 months ago. So, for his ‘flying fun’ he grips into our hand and we run around with him (mainly near soft furniture as sometimes he lets go and lands on the couch or the bed and grins with parrot glee making his happy noises that he ‘OMG I FLEW MUMMY LOOKIE!) He flaps like crazy as we go around together all 3 of us running around the house.

Then we share a bowl of veggies and sprouts, thats probably one of their favourite activities everyday next to bath time and foraging.

Sometimes birds ‘bond’ to one person as if they are a bird alone they take a ‘human’ for a ‘mate’. Their cage is their territory – not yours. Its their ‘home’. So if you come near it – yes they might bite and lunge at you. Which is perfectly NORMAL!! They are a parrot not a human! They dont like invaders into their personal space weather they know them or not.
– Charlie my IRN is like this, he will rip my hand off if I enter his territory, his ‘favourite section’ of the cage. But, if I say ‘step up’ (when he hears that even if he is in the cage he kindly steps up) and put him outside the cage even on my shoulder and clean/fix things in ‘his area’ he doesn’t mind. He just prefers to have ‘his private place’. Ollie and Sammy though dont mind and they like me to hang out in their cage with them lol!

In the wild birds protect their territory and their mate with fierceness. But, if they are outside of their territory they will interact with other birds in a kind manner, even the bird that just flew by their territory and they lunged at.

Its like us protecting our bedroom say, we dont like guests tromping in it perhaps seeing our underwear right!?