How to Teach Your Parrot to Dance! | BirdNerdSophie

[@TheParrotTeacher]

Parrots dancing is always really funny/cute!

[@BirdNerdSophie]

Pickles has the biggest repertoire of moves 😂

[@0cch10]

It's one of the most fun things I think too 🥰

[@0cch10]

@@BirdNerdSophie I laughed so hard, pickles pickles pickles 🤣🥰

[@GrimdarkGamers]

That pickles dancing video is the first thing I ever saw from you guys and remains my favorite dance video to this day! Baby Olive’s new dance is looking pretty adorable though, I want to see more !

[@BirdNerdSophie]

Haha its one of our favourite videos too 😂 they don’t always like to be filmed when dancing so it’s a real treat to have these clips 😁

[@sharonpreston5224]

@@BirdNerdSophie yeah my little Buddy doesn't like to be filmed either, but I have managed to get a couple of quite good Videos of him, but usually the only way I can get him talking while I'm taping, is to be in another room, and then he doesn't know that I'm taping him, lol. 😅🤣🤗❤️

[@rachellebrandt9546]

What great tips! I’m sure parrot dancing is going to be a favorite at our household for a perfect way to have even the youngest child interact with our cockatiel in a safe manner 😊

[@BirdNerdSophie]

We are always having a dance party here with the flock 😂

[@rachellebrandt9546]

@@BirdNerdSophie 😂

[@mansishah6579]

I never really had to train them to dance, it’s a behavior they just did naturally when they got excited. And they don’t only do it when they’re excited, they also sing and dance when they’re calm/sleepy/ fluffing but happy that I’m in the room.

[@BirdNerdSophie]

Some parrots are natural takers for dancing! Others need a little encouragement haha 😊 our guys like to sing when they’re sleepy too!

[@robmarcus6528]

My little GCC Peaches likes to bob her head and go 'pew pew pew' along with the music. So cute!

[@BirdNerdSophie]

That’s adorable 😍

[@sharonpreston5224]

That's very cool. My Cockateil Buddy likes to move his head up and down when I have got music playing, like radio or cds, he really loves it. ❤️

[@BirdNerdSophie]

Ah bless him that’s so cute 😍

[@nikkijohnson4933]

I have starlings I hand fed from babies. Year & half later I got them talking. Now I'm trying to teach them to dance. I watched your video & I'm dancing around with them. If anyone saw me doing this I'd be mortified but it really has been a fun bonding experience. I will let you know the progress

[@BirdNerdSophie]

They sound so cute! And yes we end up looking silly for the sake of our birds 😂

[@theladyofheaven4366]

Sophie i taught my budgie to do a head bob dance and my conure to Move her body to the right then to the left then up then down THEY DID AMAZING tysm for this vid I would love to see lots of vids of the conures

[@BirdNerdSophie]

That’s so cute! 😍

[@asseyez-vous6492]

If you had a Goffin, it would be showing YOU how to dance 😂 You have a great singing voice. Some like tunes from baby toys too. Great video 😊

[@BirdNerdSophie]

Haha so true! Many cockatoos are naturally fabulous dancers 😂💙

[@GB_Gummy]

Mine either reacts badly to music or ignores it. I want to see him dance because I'm always singing him the theme songs I've created for him. Maybe this dance will make him want to groove. Thanks Sophie ! (Awesome shirt btw 😍)

[@BirdNerdSophie]

LOL ours all have little songs I've made for them too 😂 and thank you :D

[@angsfeatheredfriends]

Buddy just sort of does this, so I started saying his name and clapping along when I see him moving like this. Now he does it when I do it.

[@BirdNerdSophie]

That’s so cute!

[@foofooday]

Love this!

[@BirdNerdSophie]

Glad you like it 😊

[@bugs8779]

My parrots favourite song is pasoori 🤣😅

[@skayathewolf2956]

Great video! It would be Cool to reach my bird to dance! 🙂

[@BirdNerdSophie]

That would be cool! 😊

[@birdiiii]

Hi Sophie, I have some super exciting news! My Budgie laid some eggs in the nesting box, her previous attempts were unsuccessful and the eggs fell out so I had given up because the make is 7 years old and I thought meh this won’t work. So I wasn’t really paying much attention to if they were laying more eggs but today I heard this high pitched chirp so I checked which of the birds made it but none of them did. I checked the nesting box and there was 4 eggs! The noise was coming from the nest box so I believe that it was coming from a lil baby bird in an egg! Don’t worry, I’ll take the box out after the eggs are done and they have 3 cuttlefish to nibble on! I keep an eye out for any kind of sickness! Maybe I can teach my grumpy cockatiel to dance 😂

[@BirdNerdSophie]

Baby birds are very exciting! I love the tiny chirps as they're hatching!

[@birdiiii]

@@BirdNerdSophie Me too!

[@chloewalsh8481]

Amazing x my Bo the budgie loves a dance he really does.. didnt teach him really hes just mad for it but hes no special moves lol

[@BirdNerdSophie]

That’s adorable 🥰

[@hrvat_sam1_nacionalista_sam2]

I have an Umbrella cockatoo that is very friendly and nice and tamed, but I would like him to dance

[@BirdNerdSophie]

Cockatoos love to dance when they know how 😊

[@elise7493]

Great video! Im actually wondering what you think about this: Most mornings, I open the door to the cage and my conure will run out to the top and start doing a similar little dance/walk to Olive's while "cheeping" 3 times in a row. I've been encouraging it by clapping along and chanting his name like a little dance! But Im wondering if this sounds like hes happy to be awake or something else? 🤔 (Just wondering if I should be encouraging it or not! He seems quite happy when he does it but yea haha)

[@BirdNerdSophie]

Sound alike excitement! You can definitely encourage it but be mindful of the fine line between excitement and overstimulation!

[@elise7493]

@@BirdNerdSophie Great to know!! Thanks, I'll be sure to monitor that😁

[@BTSARMYGIRL-222]

Can you also show us some song which they could dance on ?? ✨✨😀

[@BirdNerdSophie]

Unfortunately not as there would be copyright issues ☹️

[@BTSARMYGIRL-222]

@@BirdNerdSophie sorry i didn’t get you on copyright issues

[@Dazaiosamu28]

My bird dance's when I say dance yoshi

[@BirdNerdSophie]

Cute 😍

[@Dirty_paws13]

It was so hard trying to teach my bird pickle how to dance😅😂

[@Dirty_paws13]

OMG I DIDNT REALIZE I FOLLOW YOU ON INSTAGRAM

[@BirdNerdSophie]

Hello!

[@Sakuraluna_]

what music type is recommended?

[@BirdNerdSophie]

Anything upbeat is great!

[@Jonas-ei7yg]

How to make sure i don't overstimulate?

[@BirdNerdSophie]

Watch for their body language which will give you an indicator what’s happening! Each species will be different!