Have you ever wonder how well will your parrot adapt to changes? We all know that parrots are sensitive creatures, and changes in the environment tend to lead them into extreme fear and stress. Like I always mention on my previous posts, parrots are like little kids. They behave like one and think like one.

Just imagine, when you bring a young child into a new room, a completely new environment where he or she has never visited. Chances are he or she will retreat and stick close to you, because there’s this little fear within him or her making him or her reluctant to explore the new place. These same goes for parrots too.

I personally feel that all parrots can adapt to environmental changes quite well, ultimately it depends on how the owners introduce and letting their companion parrots expose to these changes in the proper method.

Lately I did a major interior facelift in my room. I repainted the room and replace most of the furnitures that I bought from Ikea. Although I’m truly excited and happy with the new decors, but I was worried about how Kermit felt about the room changes.

I can gladly say I shouldn’t have worried that much, Kermit adapting well and blending himself well into the environment. Below is the video snapshot of Kermit on his “Observation Tower” (obviously is a bar stool) observing at all dimensions (left, right, up and down) in the room. Do listen carefully to the video, where Kermit say out his name “Kermit” at the 20th Second.

At the beginning when I first brought Kermit into the newly furnished room, he wasn’t adapting quite well. The moment when Kermit and I stepped into the room, Kermit immediately fluttered his way out of the room.

A total rejection! He was totally terrified of the new environment.

Few minutes later, when Kermit was all calm down. I reintroduced him into the room again, but this round I placed him on high ground. I raised my hands where Kermit perched on, high up as high as I could. I believe many might have heard of the term “Height Dominance”.

By placing a nervous parrot at the highest point will make him feel safe and less scary. In the wild, whenever parrots sense dangers are coming, they will climb up and seek safety at the top of the tree. The highest point from the ground make them feel less vulnerable and let them gain more control of the situation.

After a couple of minutes up at the “highest point”, observing the room, Kermit started to preen himself comfortably. It’s a clear indication where he start to adapting well in the new environment. Thenafter, I left Kermit on the bar stool for another 10-15minutes to carry on with his observation (which is seen in the Youtube Clip) and getting used to the room.