Cockatiel behavior?

Question

My pearl cockatiel will hop out of her cage only to start screeching when outside and inside. It's not a loud whistle. One of the Petsmart people described it as a dinosaur noise. It's weird b/c she's really friendly. She won't bite. She will follow me around and come when I want her to perch on my fingers. She will eat from my hand, but sometimes I just put her by me and she makes that funny dinosaur noise. I've had cockatiels before and none of them made this noise...most of them had a sharp whistle/scream if scared or wanted attention...not this weird noise. Then sometimes even in her cage, she will be eating and making that same noise. Has anyone else noticed their cockatiels make that noise? And why?

Thanks! Hopefully it will grow out of it since she looks kind of old to be making that noise...the Petsmart people couldn't tell me the age, but she has all her feathers and they told me they wouldn't sell the bird unless it didn't need handfeeding.

Answer 1

The noise you describe as a dinosaur noise like a deep throaty growling with a high pitch over tone is the call of a very young bird begging for food. As the chicks are outside the nest with the parents they do this to get them to feed them. I hand rear cockatiels and they do this from about three weeks old until well after they are weaned.
When the bird does this it is asking you to feed it, if you do, this it will reinforce that you are a provider and the bird will become even tamer with you.
Eventually they do grow out of it.

Answer 2

umm...i wouldn't trust Petsmart people, cuz they pretty much have no idea what they are talking about. It might just be young, or that just might be a noise it has heard sometime along the line and now it just loves to make that noise. My mother has bred cockatiels for some time now, and never have i heard any of them make that noise. so good luck finding out why it is making that noise. it could just be something it heard on the TV. That is where our tiels hear most of what they say.

Answer 3

once you purchased the poultry you need to have asked if it become sexed meaning dna attempt to instruct it become a male or woman. I had a pair of cockatiels the male talked he pronounced fairly poultry and he could whistle like he observed a reasonably woman the female made a humorous noise gave the impression of "Ah" and she or he could hiss reason she didnt like every person to the touch her. yet this habit looks like she is in a position to mate.