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Post by wsteinhoff on Nov 9, 2015 22:07:26 GMT -5
My pigeon Skye has gained curiosity in my laptop. She's watched me tap away on the keyboard and has started trying it out herself. She has figured out that if I'm typing and she comes over and pecks the keys something happens on the screen. She even seems to recognize the enter key sometimes tapping it after a few letters. Both Skye and my Quaker Bishop have also figured out the like button on my iPod screen when I listen to the radio on it even though they don't understand what it means they do understand that it does something. I may try to teach them the different buttons. Pigeons have been proven to be just as intelligent as parrots just minus the ability to mimic words so I'm confident that it's possible to be able to teach her what the different letters on the keyboard and then be able to say a letter and she will tap it eventually forming words. As long as her temper and short attention span doesn't get in the way.
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Post by biteybird on Nov 10, 2015 1:32:16 GMT -5
Oh, just watch Bishop like a hawk when he's around your laptop. Several threads on this forum are devoted to the damage a quaker beak can do to a computer keyboard (translation: Bonnie=Guilty One).  |
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Post by wsteinhoff on Nov 10, 2015 5:05:02 GMT -5
Oh, just watch Bishop like a hawk when he's around your laptop. Several threads on this forum are devoted to the damage a quaker beak can do to a computer keyboard (translation: Bonnie=Guilty One). Bishop is too afraid of the laptop to go anywhere near it. |
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Post by aaron on Nov 11, 2015 18:18:52 GMT -5
Haha wow, how I wish Cupcake was too afraid to go anywhere near a laptop keyboard! In the time that we've had her, I've replaced at least 7 laptop keyboards. It's definitely one of her favorite things to tear them up, and she definitely knows she's being bad.. but she does it anyway! Naughty chicken.
Would be cool to see a video of your pigeon and the laptop!
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Post by wsteinhoff on Nov 11, 2015 22:07:35 GMT -5
No progress so far, Skye has decided it's her laptop and nobody can touch it. She spent at least an hour perched on the keyboard and if I tried to even turn it on she made it pretty clear that it's not to be messed with. My hand looked like it was covered in chicken pox or poison ivy with all the red dots on it from all the little pigeon pecks. She can get pretty mean when she wants to, if anyone comes in my room besides me while she's out she becomes the guard dog and will chase them all over the house.
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Post by biteybird on Nov 12, 2015 2:14:16 GMT -5
Wow, I've said this before in relation to quakers, but obviously what's hers is hers and what's yours is also hers… |
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Post by siobhan on Nov 12, 2015 20:04:40 GMT -5
Pigeons are bossy. My Maggie lives in a room with five parrots and nobody messes with her. She gets the food and the perches that she wants and woe betide any parrot silly enough to get in the way. Johnny, a tiel, likes to scold her but if she lunges, he flies away NOW.
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Post by wsteinhoff on Nov 12, 2015 22:17:31 GMT -5
Pigeons are bossy. My Maggie lives in a room with five parrots and nobody messes with her. She gets the food and the perches that she wants and woe betide any parrot silly enough to get in the way. Johnny, a tiel, likes to scold her but if she lunges, he flies away NOW. True they can be very territorial even amongst themselves. My breeders outside will fight over nest boxes and perches sometimes. Skye is actually usually pretty calm around my birds though. Her and my quaker will perch next to each other and she actually shares a cage with the sparrow since it's large enough. |
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Post by siobhan on Nov 13, 2015 12:39:39 GMT -5
Johnny and Maggie have a feud going on to rival the Hatfields and McCoys. Either he's scolding her or she's chasing him. He doesn't think she should sit on the curtain rod or steal pellets from Clyde's cage, though of course, everyone does those things, including Johnny. LOL Maggie doesn't think Johnny should sit on my leg or steal food from her dish. Everybody steals food from her dish. She steals food from their dishes.
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