What Is CJ doing? and Why?

[LoveMyBeak]

Lets see if anybody can help me here, every morning when my wife is about to leave for work she gets CJ out for some goodbye lovins. As you can see in the pics (hopefully I can get a video of it) he slightly flutters his wings and holds them out and low, and all the time he does some pathetic whimpering and whining. He IS bonded to my wife and nobody else, and usually he is a ball of fire with attitude..............LMB

[Addicted to Tequila]

He is begging! Bappies will do that to get fed. He may just be begging her to stay with him (they are good at using a behavior for one situation to translate for another)

[babypiggy]

ajax does the same thing

it's a sort of begging

he never did it with hand feeding
but he does do it when we put him on his play stand and wanna be with us

(usually it's when we are busy doing house work etc.)

[teenab]

My vet told me that's their mating dance. Mine does that when we let him on our shoulders! He's doing it CONSTANLY & everywhere now that we got a female.

[Scooterpie]

to me, it looks like the mating gesture.
He has chosen your wife for his mate..:)

[Lisa B]

yep, CJ is a "loving" your wife

[LoveMyBeak]

CJ is really starting to come out of his shell, I think it is due to the fact that he doesn't like being locked up in his cage all the while watching the other birds getting to hang out out of their cages and having fun, I barely ever have the doors shut on the other bird cages. We moved my wifes' chair next to his cage and every chance she gets she lets him out onto her and everytime he bites her-right back into the cage he goes and she only says "NO BITES" and ignores him for a while and then let's him out again, it took him about a month to get the idea that if he bites then he cannot be out having fun, instead he goes to jail, he is smart and could have learned this a lot sooner, but that is where the stubbornness plays a huge part.

Now he is trained to not bite and it is going very well, now also he has learned that if he stands at the door of his cage and says"no bites" then we will get him out, it's too cute, he also has really gotten into doing that silly mating dance, its pathetic but sweet, he is really starting to show his loving side now my wife can pet him anywhere in his little pigeon toed body without fear of getting bit, me on the other hand- he still hates but I am making progress with him, he lets me pet him through the bars of his cage..........LMB

[Finches]

I think she is in mating mood. Why don't you try to mix it with its counterpart?