Parrot

**Parrots** are passive birds that spawn naturally in Jungles in the Overworld.

## Appearance

Parrots are small bird mobs that comes in 41 variants in different colors and patterns, including 5 first variants added to Minecraft and 36 other variants, which are either fantasy species or are based on real life species.

## Behavior

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.

Parrots are incredibly small. They can pass through openings even smaller than a full block, though not willingly. When one is riding a minecart, it is impossible to hit as it is completely inside the minecart's hitbox.

### 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. They tend to look in the direction of the mob they are mimicking. Occasionally, a Parrot may imitate sounds of mobs that are not in the area.

### Taming

Parrots can be tamed by feeding them wheat seeds, melon seeds, pumpkin seeds, or beetroot seeds, with 1⁄3 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.

#### 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.

In Bedrock Edition:

* A Parrot sitting on the shoulder appears in the inventory interface.
* A Parrot sitting on a shoulder prevents the player from entering a Nether portal.

#### Dancing

Parrots dance near a jukebox if a music disc is inside it. Parrots even have the ability to dance while on a player's shoulder.‌ 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

In Java Edition, attempting to feed a Parrot a cookie instantly kills it, emitting Poison particles as it dies. In Bedrock Edition, feeding a cookie to a Parrot gives it fatal poison instead. This is a reference to the fact that chocolate is toxic to Parrots.

## Breeding

If two adult Parrots are fed wheat seeds, beetroot seeds, melon seeds or pumpkin seeds, a baby spawns. They cannot breed for 5 minutes afterward.

Baby Parrots take 20 minutes to grow up, but the growth time can be accelerated by 10% each time it is fed seeds.