Parrot owners, what is the worst injury you have ever recieved complements of your pet parrot?

professor grey: Parrot owners, what is the worst injury you have ever recieved complements of your pet parrot?
I know that many parrot owners allow their parots to perch on their shoulders and wind up with bites to the ears, nose mouth and sometimes even eye’s. What is the worst injury you have ever recieved and how did it come about?

Answers and Views:

Answer by 😉
Nasty bites.
My oldest child had/has severe asthma, so I gave the birds away. But when we were young and had several birds, bites were common.

Answer by LaDii VaNiTy
well i dont own a parrot but my friend does and when she first got it, she used to get bit all the time but as the parrot got used to her, it stopped biting her. now it only bites her when its hungary but thats only sometimes like once in a blue.

Answer by Diamond
a bad nip on my index finger she even took her feet off the floor to make it hurt more
skin was not broken it was only bruised

Answer by Lizabeth
i don’t actaully have a prrot but my close friend does and she lets it sit on her shoulder,when i was over at her house watching t.v the parrot came over onto my shoulder and bit a chunk out of my ear it was bleeding and stung really bad!
she said her parrot never does things like that …so i guess it didn’t like me

Answer by Kate M
I have a quaker parrot and it has never bitten me . he is a real sweetheart . However he does not like my husband and has bitten him before . my neighbor has a conure and he bites her all the time .

Answer by Joanna
I adopted a Senegal parrot several years ago. He was dropped off at the vet hospital I worked at because his people didn’t want him anymore. The idea was to just keep him as the clinic pet, but he tried to bite all the technicians who tried to feed him, clean his cage, etc…No way we could keep him in the waiting room in case anyone put thier finger in his cage! One day we noticed that whenever I walked by he whistled, and said “Hello, sweetie!” (he had quite a vocabulary). To everyone’s surprise, he ‘stepped up’ onto my finger and was as sweet as could be…but only with me. My boss decided I should take him home since the clinic pet idea wasn’t working out, and no-one else could get near him. Same at home, he loved only me, would talk to the rest of the family (and meow at the cats!) but tried to bite if anyone else tried to pet him. He would climb on my head, and groom my hair, gently pick at any little hangnails I might have, and I would kiss him right on his sharp little beak. Our morning routine was for me to open his cage and let him climb around the outside of it while I changed his papers, gave him now food, etc. Then he would ‘step up’, I’d give him a kiss and put him back in. One morning, instead of stepping up, he latched on to my finger, grinding so hard with his beak that blood was running down my arm. I don’t know how long it took me to get him off, but I still have a scar to this day and had several other smaller bites from when he finally let go, and gave me a few more pecks while I was putting him into his cage. I never figured out why he turned on me like that, and thought about all the times he was in close proximity to my face, and how much damage he could have done if he had decided to. We did notice shortly after he bit me that he whistled and called whenever my (now ex-) husband walked by. He kept him when we divorced and a neighbor tells me that they are still friends. I still love birds, am so totally intgrigued by thier intelligence, and behavior, but not sure I could ever ask one to ‘step-up’ again. Maybe someday.

Answer by millypeed
I have an African Grey and so far I haven’t had any injuries, apart from being crapped on, he is very gentle with me, but my husband has been bitten on numerous occasions and now avoids going near him ( the coward! ) but if Bob gets the chance he will take a sneaky peck at him, he loves his ears.

Answer by p.h
have a grey she bit me when i tried to take her from my husband to put her back in the cage broke the skin hurt like hell and she laughed about it!

Answer by Melon-Collie
Surprising that with budgies, tiels and a quaker my only real injury has come from a female budgie who latched on to my finger and refused to let go until she was sure I was bleeding.

Oh, I didn’t bend over far enough coming out of the aviary one day and smashed my head into the door frame. Knocked me flat on my butt and I had a great lump right in the middle of my forehead, but I can’t really blame that on my birds lol.

I do blame the bird who felt the need to poop on me while I was sitting dazed on the ground, but none of them would own up to it.