Male tiel, twelve, had him most of his life. For the last three weeks he has been singing at eleven, midnight, sometimes later. Full song, not a mumble. Cage is in the living room, cover goes on about ten.
He seems fine in the day. Eating, flying about, no change in anything I can see. But I am not sleeping and I would rather fix the cause than move him into a cupboard. What am I missing?
Worth separating singing from night frights before you go further, because the fix is the opposite way round. A night fright is a panic in the dark: thrashing, crashing into the bars, and tiels are badly prone to them. You can lose a blood feather that way.
If what you hear is actual song, carry on. If you ever hear flapping and banging, put a soft light on, talk to him until he settles, then check him over. Birds that fright do better with a dim night light than with total darkness.
@flock_of_one · 3h ago · 2 replies
Living room is the whole answer, probably. Cover on at ten does not help if the television is on until midnight and you are talking over it. He is a flock bird, you are the flock, and what he can hear he wants to join.
Light does the same job. A screen, a lamp, a streetlight through a gap in the curtain, a phone. Tiels read light as the clock, and they want somewhere in the region of ten to twelve hours of dark and quiet. A cover over a cage in a room that is still awake gives him the dark and none of the quiet.
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@bulb_in_the_hall · 2h ago
There is a streetlight more or less level with the cage. Never thought of it as light because the room feels dark to me.
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