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[quote=Anonymous]19:14 here. I will say that I am guilty of not always following the advice I was given but here it is: ignore the bad behavior. It sounds incredibly easy, but when ours gets really wound up he goes through his entire repertoire of sounds: loud whistle, shrieking, imitating a squeaky toy, microwave beeps, etc. 
what I started doing was trying to find a sound he liked and would repeat back to me. For example, if he started his "yelling session" I would wait until be quieted down and then do a low whistle. If he did it back, I would whistle again for him. His favorite whistle (and it is dead on accurate!) is the one he picked up from my iPhone. Now that is generally the sound he uses to "find" me in the house. Sometimes we'll do it back and forth for several minutes until he's okay with me not being in sight. 
I have put him back in the cage when I felt like he's needed a time-out or when he continually flies into the kitchen when I'm cooking and it's a safety hazard. I try and give me a treat when i do that so it doesnt create a negative connotation for him. He doesn't hate his cage and will climb in when he's tired and wants to go to sleep. We've gotten to the point where we can leave his cage open all day while we're at work so he can either hang out on top or go inside to eat/sleep.  He has definitely chilled out over the last few years, but I wish I had received some of the advice we now use a lot sooner. I am his "person" and when DC was born, he definitely felt like his place was taken. It's taken a lot of work to almost get back to where we were in terms of companionship. 
I know how to read his signals much better to avoid getting bit and when he needs his "space". He does tend to get more of an attitude when his flight feathers need to be clipped or when his nails get a little long (more gripping power). (We have perches in his cage to help keep his nails short, but he doesn't always sit on them and then we have to take him to the vet for a nail trim). [/quote]

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