Is This Regurgitation?

[claudzilla]

So this morning I was playing with Saturday, holding her and she was being very sweet. I took her downstairs for a bath in the sink (I ran a little stream of warm water over a ladder and a towel), where she mostly just drank warm water. We came upstairs and I was holding her on my hands and she was being sweet as pie, then all of a sudden she barfed up a bunch of water on me! :confused: I'm assuming this is regurgitation. Right after she started bobbing her head really fast like she was going to do it again, so I put her in her cage (I've read that you shouldn't encourage this). She's acting normal otherwise. Is this what regurgitation looks like? Or should I be worried? :confused:

[Wuzzoluvr]

I'm no expert but Bentley did it to me too not that long ago. The head bobbing kind of confirms it, I'm thinking. Nasty...but I guess it's love.;)

[Evelyn]

I wish I knew, the difference between regurgitation, when they love you, or when they are sick? It has not yet to happen to me, so I can't say..

[Sondra]

If you watch a pair together the male usually will start what is what I call "wibble wobbleing" Winston will do this with me also. Their head goes more back and forth rather than bobbing up and down and then reguritate thus feeding the female. What you are discribing with the water doesn't seem to me this loving feeding motion. However I wasn't there to actually see it.

[enborgle]

If it was very sudden, without the back and forth wiggleneck motion, she may just have drank too much water and barfed it up. Barfing comes after a jackhammer up and down motion rather than the limp back and forth wiggling like there are no bones in their neck.

[claudzilla]

If it was very sudden, without the back and forth wiggleneck motion, she may just have drank too much water and barfed it up. Barfing comes after a jackhammer up and down motion rather than the limp back and forth wiggling like there are no bones in their neck.

I think that may be what happened. She didn't wiggle or anything beforehand, so I think it took her by surprise as well. She does the wiggle to get my attention when she's in her cage sometimes, though. She hasn't been acting any different (and has eaten plenty), so I assume she's okay. I'll keep an eye on her.

Thanks everyone!

[sourberry]

It sounds like when babies "beg". They hold their beak open and bob their head (and almost their entire body) up and down, usually punctuated with little chirps. They will do this for either food or playing, it's the bird equivalent of a baby crying.

They wont throw up though, that baffles me.

Lookup on youtube vids of babies begging for food and tell us if that's what he looked like.

[edward]

I have seen this when bathing a young bird, usually they drink too much warm water and it does not set well. The regurgitating they do out of affection is thicker partially digested food that comes from their crop it is usually whitish in color and not at all mistakable for water. I also have noticed the head moving back and forth during this and their eyes do that pinning thing where the pupils dialate, another sign of affection then they work up a bit of a present for you as if you were their chosen mate, be thankful as that is what they are thinking, this is the one I love and I want to feed them.
I think when they are young they will drink too much warm water thinking it is like the warm bird formula they were fed as a baby.

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