Parrot

Parrots are rare tamable mobs found in jungles. Parrots can imitate sounds of nearby hostile mobs and can perch on the player's shoulders.

## Spawning

Parrots rarely spawn, with a 0.2 chance in Jungle, Sparse Jungle, and Tropical Swamp biomes. They can be found in groups of 1–2 at Y-level 70 or above. They spawn only on logs, leaves and grass blocks.

## Drops

When a parrot is killed, it drops:

* 1-2feathers. The maximum is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a range of 1–5 with Looting III.
* 1–3 when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

## Behavior

### Movement

Parrots are passive. They can fly, and usually fly upward if struck. They fly under normal conditions, but they can tire and return to the ground.

Parrots crowd and settle around other nearby mobs, including neutral and hostile mobs.

When in water, a parrot swims by flapping its wings.

Like chickens, parrots flap their wings and fall slowly, preventing fall damage.

### Taming

Parrots can be tamed by feeding them wheat seeds, melon seeds, pumpkin seeds, or beetroot seeds, with 1⁄10 chance of success. Once tamed, interacting with a parrot makes it sit down and stand up.

Like tamed wolves and cats, a tamed parrot follows the player unless told to sit, and may teleport if there is a sufficient distance between them and the player. Like all tamed animals upon death, a death message is displayed to its owner.

Parrot teleportation is completely silent, which is intentional.

Unlike most animals, parrots have no baby form, and cannot be bred.

### Perching on shoulders

A tamed parrot on the ground can be made to perch on its player's shoulder by moving through the parrot. On its own, a tamed parrot can also fly to and perch on the player's shoulder, unless it has been told to sit. A player can have one parrot on each shoulder. Parrots always prefer a player's left shoulder first, if it is empty.

A parrot dismounts its player when the player:

* does not land on a high-enough surface (1⁄2 block up or higher)
* drops off a ledge of higher than 3⁄4 of a block
* takes damage
* submerges the player's feet into the water of any height
* starts drowning
* sleeps on a bed
* submerges the player's head in lava (the parrot dismounts and burns even if the player has Fire Resistance)

Parrots on a shoulder always look in the same direction the player's head is looking.

A parrot on a shoulder cannot take any damage but may get hurt as soon as it dismounts, as when dismounting a player submerged in lava.

A parrot sitting on the shoulder appears in the inventory interface.

In Bedrock Edition, a parrot sitting on a shoulder prevents the player from entering a Nether portal.

### Imitating sounds

Parrots imitate the idle sounds of nearby hostile and certain neutral mobs (including the hiss of creepers for example); they have a detection range of 20 blocks (cubical). The sound produced by the parrots is simply the same sound as the mob being mimicked at a higher pitch. Occasionally, a parrot may imitate sounds of mobs that are not in the area.

### Dancing

Dancing parrots

Parrots dance near a jukebox if a music disc is inside it. This is a reference to the Party Parrot meme. The game does not seem to have any real way to determine when the music ends, though; as long as the disc remains in the jukebox, the parrot continues dancing even after the music stops.

The dancing radius is 3 blocks from the jukebox. If they dance and then fly beyond this radius, they stop dancing. A parrot does not dance if the music disc was inserted prior to it spawning, dismounting, or being within the 3 blocks range.

### Cookies

Attempting to feed a parrot a cookie instantly kills it, emitting Poison particles as it dies. This is a reference to the fact that chocolate is toxic to parrots.