[Machelle]

She could be 4 months. I have the same situation with new baby grey. He's about 4 months old and he has virtually no coordination. He climbs the cage slowly, he's learning step up but he moves onto my hand very slow, he is still learning to perch and has no balance. Sometimes he goes to sleep leaning up against the cage and he'll fall off the perch. We have a perch lower to the ground and he sometimes uses that but he uses the higher ones to sleep on. Birds develop at different rates, just like kids do. I got Kiri at 3 months old and she was stepping up and moving around the cage really well so I understand exactly what you are saying. At first I thought something was wrong with Merlin because he's so slow moving with his coordination and balance but I now know that he's just developing a little slower. He's getting alot better though. It's possible she's younger than they said but its also possible that she just developing slower. Just something to think about.