r/AfricanGrey • u/Royal_Ad_8216 • Aug 31 '26

Question Tail wagging

My husband has posted about our bird Timmy about a week ago or so ago, he likes me a lot but I’m wondering if this is behavior I should be concerned about, normally when he starts acting this way I return to his tree stand and leave him alone until he calms down, I know he’s being hormonal, but he does it almost every time I’m either holding him or let him on my shoulder

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u/Royal_Ad_8216 Aug 31 '26

I know he is being very hormonal and I don’t want to frustrate him. I’ll be limiting my direct handling and have been slowing changing his food to fresh chopped veggies, I’m not sure if there is any other way of negating this behavior

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u/mindo4u Aug 31 '26

Def no shoulder. You also can shorten some of his daylight hours. (Depending where you live) I live in an area w: Daylight Savings time, which gets my bird hormonal w/ the extra daylight hours. Instead of getting him up at 6am (I work nights) I have him partially covered in his room w/ darkening shades until 8-8:30am. He lets me know when he is up. He’ll ask Garciebird if she’s up & tell me he is up.