I'm ignoring his calls but I heard that some people will "call" back to let him know that they aren't alone. I feel like this might end up being a problem, so I just keep quiet!
As Kelly mention, going back to the bird when he screams, is the same as rewarding the bird for screaming.
There is a metode we can use to teach our bird not to scream. This method actually works. I have tried it myself.
Sun conures can live for 35 years and if you really want to teach your bird not to scream all this time,
this training may be the solution . :)
There is an article on this in the "Training & Handling Techniques" section on this forum.
I only paste in a part of the article here now:
The following section of the article ,I have also put in my own experience
with this method. I used it with my sun conure.)
Parrots use a contact call among themselves to ceep contact.
Contact with a mate or with the flock. The contact-call confirm that everything
is OK. Within some species, it is common that "he" and "she" calls
eachother until they are out of earshot. This is something you can use
especially in the start, after you brought your bird home.
I have tryed this with my sun conure and it works.
A contact-call can be a little melody you are whistleing or huming.
It can be words that you say in a calm and confidence-inspiring way.
The important thing is that it is a sound that you can make last
for a while and that it is possible to make the sound fade out to silence.
I single word as "by-by" is not a good contact-call.
I use a whistle-tone. A short "whistle at the ladies", that can be repeated for
as long I think it is necessary.
http://www.toby.no/kingo/kingo-speak.mp3 When you leave your bird, whistle or hum your contact-call (while the bird still sees you).
Continue the contact-call untill the bird can not see you. (I.E if you go to the next room)
Then, when the bird can not see you, let the call fade out to silence.
So, if you go to an other room and the bird is left in the cage or the bird is in the room
you are leaving,let the call fade out to silence after entering the other room.
During the training, I used the livingroom and the kitchen as the training environment.
I left the livingroom while giving my contact call and shut the doore after me when
I entered the kitchen. When I entered the kitchen , I whistled my call a coupple of
times, leting it fade out to silence. I spent a coupple of minutes in the kitchen
and then I returned to the livingroom while I whistled my contact-call just ONE time.
This, I repeated several times during the day.
After three or four days my sun conure had made a great improvement.
I could almost not believe that it actually worked!
After two days I noticed that my bird answered me when I gave my contact-call.
He answered me with a quiet "sqweaek". It was a bit strange. I got the feeling
that I actually was talking with the bird.
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If the bird calls you after you have let your contact call fade out,
you must not answer. We will not teach the bird that by screaming,
the owner will answer. It can seems like "cute" in the beginning
to answer your bird when it calls you but one day when you are busy
and don?t hear your bird, it will intensify it?s attempt to reach you.
The whole article can be red here:
http://perchtalk.com/index.php?topic=1422.0
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