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My birds are much happier when music is playing. And they seem to have preferences over time. Like there are no predators around when the environment around them is noisy.

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Though I found they like having control over whether the music is playing more... to my chagrin. I tried to keep my parrot from being too noisy through the day by setting up a microphone in his room, and having it turn off the radio for 30 seconds every time he was louder than a threshold amount.

Day one -> he triggered the shut down ~10 times. Day two -> easily 50. Day three -> you can see where this is going

Dude freaking LOVED being able to turn on and off the radio. It almost beat out being able to flap his wings and make the curtains move as one of his favourite hobbies.

you thought you were punishing him by taking away the music if he makes to much noise and you give him a tool that gives him control over his environment. seems that backfired because it looks like the parrot is less interested in the music itself but in this new ability to control the radio.

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