Congrats!! He's a cutie.

Yeah. He likes to randomly leap from you to where he wants to be lol.

I wonder if tapping the table will convince him to hop. I once saw a video of someone's caique, who started hopping, when his owner was tapping the beat to a song stuck in his head.

Hmmm maybe lol i think he just needs time.

The guy near me at the bird mart who had the princess parrots and a vast number of other birds had a few birds who were sitting free on stands instead of in cages, including a black headed caique. The caique got down on the floor and started hopping around like he had springs attached to the bottom of his feet. It was hilarious, but running around loose on the floor isn't particularly safe at a bird mart so I pointed his location out to the vendor, who picked him up and put him in a carrier that had newspaper on the floor. There wasn't enough room to hop in there so the caique started rolling on the floor tossing the newspaper with his feet. Just a great personality and a high watchability factor.

I remember that caique! He was with the two white bellies by the time I got to that stand. I put my finger up to the cage, and one of the white bellies licked it, and then tried to roll over. His sibling and the black headed noticed he was getting attention, and came over to check it out.

So thanks to a caique, I know what a bird tongue feels like now

Try having a dusky lory french kiss you. They like to put their tongues anywhere they can find.

I went to Parrot Planet because I was looking for something and all of their birds have clipped wings, but are out on display trees. 4 BHC all jumped on me. 2 were biting my neck, one was biting my hand and flipping all over the place and the other was surfing in my hair. My skin was red and raw when they all hopped off. Then this huge guy walked by and one jumped from the tree onto him and nibbled his neck. He was like "ow! ow!". I have a pretty high pain tolerance though. I was only there for a half hour and my arms, shoulders and neck had been scratched/bitten by 4 caiques, had my arms bitten several times by 2 greenwing macaws and had my fingers and fingernails torn up by 3 goffin's cockatoos pretending my fingers were feeding syringes.

How old were they? Zorro dosent seem to gave strong grip yet. I know how it feels tho, my last caique bite hard. Drew blood.