Why is my sennie heart winging? youtube video (374 views)

[tippa]

I've been trying to train my senegal Duke to wave and do the 'turn around' trick but he keeps displaying the heart wings- anyone has any idea why he does this in this video- heart winging?

[Casey]

i'm by far an expert on sennies, but by his posture and beak movements i would wonder if it is almost a begging behaviour, it looks like he is begging for those treats. his beak is going, i see some head bobbing... he's an adult, but maybe he is just begging as an old behaviour. thats what i see, but i do not know for sure, just speculation.



my other theory is perhaps he sees you as a mate and is displaying to you. ive seen some slight head bobbing and beak movements as if he was thinking about regurgitating to you.

[tippa]

lol, I totally agreed with your other theory. I too got the feeling he was very excited about me feeding him and he in turn trying to regurgitate to feed back to me(a mate offering ;D)

We all can only speculate when comes to behaviour like this. I don't think there is a specific senegal expert out there that can give a definite answer. We as humans are not even totally at understanding of each others behaviour let alone birds.

You are good though- I think you're 99% correct on your speculation .

[Casey]

its something about his posture more than anything which is suggesting it

[tippa]

Cool, I shall be back again if ever there is another strange behaviour from one of the birds.

[Casey]

hey, tippa, can we use some of your photos for new banners? i want all the birds

[tippa]

Sure, let me look at sort out my photo album and see what's cool, be right back

[injood]

lol ur bird is just so cute <3

i do have to say this, i just noticed that he looks exactly like an african grey but smaller in size and with different colors

[tippa]

;D Thanks, I think maybe it's because senagals and African greys are close neighbours in the wild. I do agree with you about they are quite similar apart from the size and colours.

[tippa]

Aug 26, 2012 17:27:05 GMT -8 Casey said:

hey, tippa, can we use some of your photos for new banners? i want all the birds

Here is a photobucket album for to pick out some photos for the new banners if you want. s1076.photobucket.com/albums/w452/theflockni/