music loving cockatiel

[slinkycat]

Probably a bit of a strange question, we have a cockatiel, also 3 teenagers ( bear with me!) so there's usually music on in the house. Robbie (the cockatiel) ignores most of it, but when certain tracks come on, he goes mental, squawking and running up and down his perch. His favourite, and the track that he started doing this to a few years back, is "where's your head at" by Basement Jaxx, now he seems to be partial to the music on the orange advert, the one where they re-arrange the furniture to make a sort of sculpture.
Question is, does he like the music, is he expressing annoyance, or is it just something about the pitch of certain songs that gets him excited?
Be interested to know if anyone has had a similar experience with their cockatiel, or any other bird for that matter

[Jules001]

I used to have a pet budgie and he would react to one song and one song only ( Break my stride - Matthew Wilder). He used to almost dance to it by bobbing his head and body up and down in time to the music. It was really funny to see and I did wonder if he liked that song or whether it was just the beat that made him do it, but certainly an interesting phenomenon. I bet your cockatiel is funny to watch too.

[slinkycat]

Hi Jules yes it is funny, apart from the ear splitting screeching! Think someone ought to do some research into this, to see if there's any common ground in birds' musical preferences, or if its all down to individual taste!

[YvonneM]

Look at this link
http://birdloversonly.blogspot.com/2007/09/may -i-have-this-dance.html

[slinkycat]

thanks for that yvonne, its hilarious! Love his high kicking little legs!

[what..the?]

Yes I do think they like certain music like we do. The beat, the base the instruments??? I don't know why they like certain pieces more than others. I just invested in a talking and singing parrot toy, not cheap at �60 but it is remote controlled can say what ever you want it to say in a parrot voice, dance and sing to its own song, or dance to your own music. I bought it just to wind my cockatiel up called Nile's. As Niles is extremely nosey and noisey, and over reacts to everything, so I have called the parrot 'Joey' and put him next to Nile's cage and he goes nuts I know he likes it because he tries to get closest to the parrot as possible. I also make the parrot say rude and crude things which is very funny. I plan on filming Niles and Joey and putting it on youtube soon if I do I will paste a link sometime in the future for you to see.

My guinea pigs and rabbit also seem to lisen intensely to some music, usually more instrumental jazzy stuff, like Sting, phil collins, eric clapton.