is it like soft cheaping?? Are you petting her back? i read about petting a cockatiels back if it is female it stimulates a boy mounting her... Wendy does that when i pet her back... she makes these soft cheaps

 

Yea, where the back meets the head. Then it gets louder if I pet head.

 

Ohhh..is she cooing? Luna coos when i scratch his head. I won't see him for a couple days because he is staying at my boyfriend's but I can video his cooing and see if this is like what Sunny is doing. It is the lower back where females usually get mounted on by the males. So if you're petting the upper back, neck, and face she is probably just cooing..making happy cockatiel sounds.

 

It's a girl and you're petting her back? This would stimulate her as if a male was stepping onto her back to mate with her. Look up mating cockatiels on youtube and see if this soft chirping is similar to what she is doing.

 

Its not the mating chirp. Stormy is a whiteface cinnamon pied. I am essentially petting where the white meets the cinnamon back. And then the top of the head.

 

It still sounds like mating behavior to me. Roo will do this to me sometimes when I haven't even touched her. Her version of it sounds a little like she's trying to imitate human kissing noises. I call it clucking, although it sounds nothing like what you'd expect from a chicken. Does that sound more like it?

If you think it seems hormonal, then it probably is. This is how I originally realized that Roo is a hen.

 

Touching any part of a hens back can stimulate her, I had a hen where all I had to do was scratch her head and she would go into mating mode, that's how hormonal she was. If you don't want her to lay eggs (as that's what this is stimulating) it would be best to stop it.

 

I would say its more of a laughing sound/ something that is joyful.

 

OK this male is completely confused, but this is the female mating sound, does it sound something like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A-WzCcrlZY

 

At first I said yes, but then as it went on, it sounded nothing like the sound.

Then Stormy herself had to interject...

 

Well changes as the male moves around, especially if doing it wrong as this one was lol.

 

Hang on, I was able to record it, got the sound not sure how much else I got as well. I also tried to get a shot of the tail feathers. Note: Stormy was hatched in April and finally appears to be going into a molt. Give me a few seconds to upload it somewhere.

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10100364128700039

Here is the link. Dont mind my Angry Bird Pigs getting their close up.

Hopefully that works.

 

It wont let me view it, I think its set to private. Set the video to public and we should be able to see it.

 

Try it now. I had it set to my friends only. I keep forgetting I had to set my Facebook to the highest privacy settings for school (student teaching).

 

yeah, see how she sticks her tail in the air??? i think you are making her hormonal haha

 

Oh great, not even a year old and wanting to get it on. Great...:blush:

 

haha my male Singerboy just went into birdy"getting it on mode" eheheheh he was loving on the perch this morning and the side of the nest box earlier GROSS he is only a year old...

 

Oh geez. lol

And whats really strange about it is she (now I'm fully convinced) is only going through her first molt. Just started it in matter of fact.

 

Actually when in breeding mode some females tend to lose feathers and get new feathers. i have heard of it before! more often in the larger finches but it has happened to my friends tiel, she freaked out thinking her bird was sick and turns out she was just hormonal hahah

 

Oh lovely...lol

But I was told by the place where I got her from that its just her normal "I'm no longer a baby molt".

Hopefully that's the case...:S:S:S

 

dally started showing these behaviours at 4 months old, right along with her first molt. it happens

 

Ralph does this too sometimes when I'm holding her--she'll tip her head back and put her tail up, and make the same noise the female makes in the video roxy culver linked to. When she starts doing this I back off because I don't want to stimulate her in that way.

 

Uh, great. Now everytime I even touch Stormy on her head she makes that noise. What do I do now?

 

And to add icing to the cake, she does it even when she is just chilling on me and I'm not touching her.

 

@roxy- ahahah! That poor boy has no idea whats going on. I loved it!

 

hahaha lol! she just loves you dosn't she LOL!!!!
Just give her less light during the day, meaning cover her until about 10:00am and cover her at night when you are making dinner(around6:00 PM) do this every day if you can. it should discourage some of this behavior..