Like most parrots I consider Kiki a generally funny, clever and smart parrot. Sometimes she has her temper tantrums and strange but typical parrot habits. One day I was sitting next her cage while she was eating and she started to dunk her pellets in her water. Not literally dunking but she would take a pellet with her beak, walk of to her water dish, crush the pellet which would fall in her water, then wait a while, and then fish it out and resume eating it. I guess she figured out how to make them softer or something because she does it over and over. This also explains why I have to constantly change her water. I wish I could have captured this on video but she stops doing anything that is even remotely interesting when she sees the camera.
However I don't know if playing with fallen feathers is a normal. Yesterday she lost a tail feather and when I picked it up she wanted it. So she wasted a good fifteen minutes playing and picking at her tail feather. I did manage to capture this on video and as soon as she stopped playing with the feather it was time to attack my camera. This morning though my mom screamed and Kiki screamed like a human along with her. She is a strange bird, but I guess most are like that.
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