- Hey everyone, Jamie Leigh here with bird tricks.
And today I'm doing a video
with this baby blue and gold Macaw named Bo
on the topic of four.
No, no, no, five common baby bird language,
body language things. Yeah.
Everybody get that?
(upbeat music)
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But in the meantime, enjoy this baby bird related video.
- What I meant to say was "five common baby bird behaviors."
Whew! That's what I was trying to say
in that ridiculous intro.
So, I hope you like baby bird sounds today
because that's what you're gonna get.
I like to use
(Bo squawking)
the subjects in my videos.
Just knocking all the toys down, all the toys down.
Are you leaving?
You can play with this.
You can hold it in your foot.
It's more effective,
if you hold it in your foot.
Can't do it?
(Bo squawking)
Can't do it?
You want this one?
Oh. You got it.
Don't fly to my head. Don't do it.
Okay. All right.
Change my mind about doing this with you.
Go play.
Baby bird behavior number one is head bobbing.
Baby birds do it. It's adorable. We love it.
I call it "baby mode" because sometimes
if I talk real sweetly to my adult birds,
every once in a while I can get
some baby bird behaviors to come out.
It's pretty minimal. It doesn't look quite like a
exaggerated as a baby bird, but it happens.
Number two
is the baby bird vocalizations.
They have their own vocalizations
and sounds that they make.
One of my favorite is when Bo is ready to go to bed.
And he does like this squeak
which he's definitely not going to do now
because he's just full of energy,
but he does kind of a "caaaaaw. meeeeeh."
I can't do it. I'm not doing it any justice.
It doesn't sound like either of those.
It's like "hmmmm." Nope, can't do it.
I'll get video of it though.
(Bo squeaking)
So, not all baby bird vocalizations are cute.
Sometimes, he calls and is testing
how loud he can really be,
just as he would be calling to his mom and dad.
So, he tests out the
octave.
What is that? Anyways, Not all of them are pleasant.
Baby birds also do that,
where it's a feeding response,
or kind of like a regurgitation,
but that wasn't actually in my thing.
So, after head bobbing,
there is sounds
and vocalizations that are just baby bird sounds.
(Bo Squawking)
Yeah, this is kind of part of them was part of him.
And number three is my favorite
and it's the baby wing flap.
It looks like an involuntary spasm.
And it usually happens when people aren't expecting it.
For the most part, especially if you're not a bird person,
it tends to take people off guard or even intimidate them.
But it's the cutest thing is the baby wing flap.
Baby wing flap. Can you show them?
Are you ditching me? You look like you're leaving.
Can you show them what a wing flap looks like?
He's like, "I'll show them what a
flight out of here looks like.
That's what I'll show them."
Please.
(Bo Squawking)
Please. Oh, there it is.
A little bit with the baby wing flap look like.
You're supposed to be my demo bird.
Demo.
Ready? Demo head bob.
(Bo squawking)
Demo wing flap.
Demo
(Bo Squawking)
What are you good for? You're not doing anything.
Number four is clumsiness. Baby birds are clumsy.
They haven't figured out balance.
They haven't figured out their skills yet.
They kind of lack
(Bo squawking)
They lack the skills.
They aren't really sure how to step up.
Which foot to start with.
If they can commit with both feet.
Sometimes they step on their feet
trying to figure out their whole thing.
Sometimes they step on air.
And yeah, they're just really clumsy.
They're figuring things out though guys.
This is pleasant.
Hey, let's show what your step up looks like.
Give me your foot.
(Jamie gasping)
Almost. Got your foot. Now what?
Good boy.
Okay. And lastly, number five is melty baby Macaws.
Is kind of what I call it.
Super technical and sciency and all that stuff.
And it's when, usually when you're going to feed them,
or when they think you are going to feed them,
they kind of melt into whatever surface they're on
and they just get really, really low and they get very baby.
Sometimes their wings will go out,
but they'll be really low to it.
Can you do it?
You're not as melty as other baby Macaws I've seen,
but he's melting.
He's getting really, really close to the surface
and getting down, but he, he's also fairly full.
So, I'm not really going to see that response right now.
He's not expecting that from me,
but that's the baby wing flap.
Did you guys see that?
Baby wing flap.
There we go.
And it's just kind a usually paired
with that sound where they just go, Oh wah ah.
And the whole wing goes as well.
So, it's almost like this full body twitch. Right?
Righto? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right?
Yeah. There it is.
There it is.
(Bo Squawking)
Also, just saying, I named this toy
in my toy line cause we make this here at Bird Tricks.
I named it after you.
It's called the baby Bo
Cause it's in our small toy boxes.
Cause it's a small toy, but there's melting Macaw.
But the big birds like it as a foot toy.
I know. You love it.
It's one of his, the first toys
he discovered here at my house.
And so I had to name it after you.
Because it had no name and baby Bo fit it perfectly.
It's a baby Bo and it's going to be destroyed.
(Bo squawking)
Yeah. That was a baby bird sound if you guys heard that one.
(Bo squawking)
That's a baby bird sound.
So many good demonstrations now. Huh?
What do ya think?
(Bo squawking)
Wing flap. It's like when you talk to them a certain way
they're like, "ah." Huh? Yeah.
You're like "What? I'm a baby.
I'm just a baby." Yeah.
"I'm just a baby
(Bo Squawking)
being pet by a baby Bo."
You holding on to that?
Now, we're getting lots of wing flaps.
(inaudible)Really good demonstration of that.
But yeah, those are probably my top five baby
bird behaviors that you kind of
need to be aware of that are
specific to young or baby, baby, baby birds.
But sometimes you may see them in adults.
Like I said, I can just barely.
I got Jinx to do it the other day
in one of my series on Patreon.
He, he actually did it for one of
my Bird Tricks Tuesday series.
Just at the end while he was on Dave's hand,
I was like, "Oh, oh, oh, did you see it?"
It was a very small version of this, but it was there.
So, I consider it a compliment.
All right, everybody. Thank you guys so much for watching.
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And you can get this in my small bird toy boxes.
It's by Bird Tricks.
If you guys see these toys in your boxes,
make sure you send me a picture of your bird
enjoying them and maybe,
just maybe, we'll name it after your bird.
(Bo squawking)
(Jamie squawking)
Okay. Okay. But not this one.
This one's named after Bo.
(Bo squawking)
Get it. Not like that.
Not feeding response get it.
You're supposed to break it.
Silly goose, but that was feeding response on a baby.
I didn't mention that one.
Although, head bobbing. It would kind of count
under head bobbing a little bit.
It's really extreme head bobbing.
Right? Look, you can wear it as a hat.
No? What do you think? This way?
Maybe?
(Bo squawking)
It's a feather brush.
Feather brush.
Okay. They're probably tired of watching us.
This is just what you do with baby bird.
You just play with it, and love it, and hug it all over.
(Bo squawking)
Yeah. And then they melt. They melt into stuff.
Melty, melty, Macaw.
Little head bobbing
(Bo squawking)
There's a little head bobbing.
Okay. He's like, "gimme my baby Bo back."
You are the baby Bo.