Continuing and maintaining this behavior in a playful way will help to ensure the bird's disposition for a lifetime. Then food, water, toys, or perches can be safely changed, and the bird will not learn how much fun it is to chase hands and other human parts. A well-adjusted quaker parrot is too busy to be noisy. If the bird is making lots of unpleasant sounds, it may be unhappy. Try to find out why.
Much chronic noise making is a habit, like any other.
These little green feathered dragons are never spayed or neutered for behavioral reasons, and therefore, they may be expected to demonstrate several diverse forms of sexually-related behaviors. In this group, approximately half of the birds over one year old masturbated. While a little more than half of those birds seemed to prefer the pleasure of a toy, a little less than half seemed to prefer their favorite person's hand. In times past it was feared that escaped quaker parrots could represent a threat as potential agricultural pests. Several states reacted by banning or otherwise regulating the ownership of quaker parrots.