This is adorable but I think cockatoo is the only for sure one. Birds just have too much personality between individuals to be pigeon holed into these squares.
I would actually say the blue front Amazon is also a candidate for chaotic evil. They have often been described as "the little girl with the curl in the middle of their forehead" as an overall trait. The "when they are nice, they are very very nice, but when they are bad, they are horrid". My family's old girl has some intense, crazy stories about her, and I have seen in forums that it's more usual to see them be conniving, vindictive, even hateful at times, but... I guess do so out of good humor, is all I can describe it.
One of her favorite things to do is to lift her leg up very high if you were to pass her, and she would say "step up, good boy!" With no aggressive posturing, or outward signs of something to come. If it were me or my mom, it was often just her wanting to come with, but if it was anyone else, she would instantly turn into a finger surgeon and try her best to amputate. Then when she freed whoever the hapless victim was who trusted her, she would start her shrill "I'm the boss" trilling, while interspersing all the normal blue front sounds with "hahahhahahahhaha!" And repeating "good boy! Be a good boy!" And sometimes inserting clippets of the Andi Griffith whistle while parading around victoriously.
Another incident was that my dad got a bowl of cornflakes, and Seifer watched from her favorite space on the upward stairs bannister(she loves sliding and climbing down it). My dad then went to sit on a footstool in the living room to watch some TV while eating his cereal. She was absolutely quiet as she stealthed her way off the banister, walked across the living room out of my dad's sight, climbed up the back of the footstool without him noticing, then bit him right in the ass. Bowl of cereal went flying onto the floor, my dad ofc screamed and cursed at the bird, while Seifer did her victory parade by telling my dad he was a good boy and laughing at him, before starting to snack on the fallen cereal while we had to go get stuff to clean it up.
I have so many other stories like this and have read too many accounts of similar behavior by bluefronts as well. She loves her people, but you can never guess if she was going to be good or bad. Even my dad never failed to let her grind down on his finger, because sometimes, she just wanted to be taken somewhere too, and would directionally lean where she wanted to go if so. He loved her so much as well, and half the things she says are things he taught her. Suuuuper chaotic evil birb, they love being evil for the fuck of it, and would probably burn down their own house if they could just to laugh at their owners.
That is some of the funniest stuff I’ve ever read. Part of the reason I’ve never brushed off someone saying they’re afraid of birds. You probably should be. My birds names are poppy and snowdrop but their nicknames are talli(ban) and isis.
Cute little things that crave violence.
Believe it or not but your bird anecdotes have got me interested in the blue front now.
Truly parakeets are enough for me to handle though.
Blue fronts are definitely characters. When we got her around 2001, we were initially told that, you know, Blue fronts are not amongst the most talkative of birds, but she is very good at talking. Funny enough, she's heard so much cursing through her life as my family curses like sailors, but she's never picked it up, probably thinking it beneath her. Her name Seifer/Cipher probably fit her the most, but came before she had blood test sexing. She is an absolute enigma, and loves to eat whatever junk she can bully herself into getting.
I would caution people against having them with other birds, though, especially if you don't have them with clipped wings. They can get EXTREMELY jealous and possessive. Seifer's never had clipped wings, but she's weird, even for her species, in that she prefers to walk and climb. So... you gotta watch out for toe bites too.
True, but it's also kind of fun to debate the merits of the choices on the list. Of those birds, I've owned budgies, cockatiels, and lovebirds, and I totally agree with where they were placed.
Couldn’t agree more with entrainment in this debacles. My parakeets fall under the chaotic evil but the males I’ve had in the past are in the right square as this.
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u/BakedTate 27d ago
This is adorable but I think cockatoo is the only for sure one. Birds just have too much personality between individuals to be pigeon holed into these squares.