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How to stop my male bird's aggressive biting and pushing behavior?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Bird | Parakeet | Female | unspayed | 4 months and 27 days old

He is biting my other male birds feet and pushing off his perches and counters? They don't share a cage but talk to eachother all day and their cages are only a meter apart? They want to be together and often try to fly to one another? How do I stop this behaviour? None of the birds have been injured or hurt?

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Answered By Todd Cecil

Veterinarian

Published on April 21st, 2019

Thanks for reaching out about Peekaboo. Not all birds get along but can often be trained to get along. Suspect this is more dominance that anything else. Allow to interact in neutral territory so no one is defending their home territory. Allow to interact with plenty of feeding stations and for short periods of time, to get acclimated to each other. Good luck.

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